Dave wrote:
On 3 Mar 2006 10:24:24 -0800, "Da Kine"
said:

Esquire is a title of nobility and used by most attorneys and
most politicians that clime high are attorneys so you can see where
this country went wrong!

Actually, a lawyer with any degree of self-confidence and sense of
propriety will use "Esq." only when writing other lawyers--not with
reference to himself. Unfortunately, there are a few, particularly
those just out of law school, who are very full of themselves and
insist on using it indiscriminately.

I am not sure this is only an issue of self-confidence. My wife sometimes
finds it helpful, and perhaps necessary, to append "Esq." in legal
correspondence not directed to other attorneys. She does not appear to
suffer from either over-confidence or lack of self-confidence.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.comcast.net