I come down on this issue on one side if it were 20 years ago, and the opposite side since we are dealing with today.

If it were like 20 years ago, I would agree with the posters who suggest that you are handing valuable work product, and your own intense research time and sweat equity, to someone who may perform little work beyond pirating your stuff, and slap his name on it. So, if it were circa 2000, I would agree with the posters who say "No."

But it is 20 years later, and fair or not, it is now not difficult for someone to sit at their desk and quickly locate the briefs you submitted in a certain case. When these people call you, particularly ones who barely know you, they probably already know of a specific case in which you successfully briefed and argued a certain matter. So, even though you did all the work and it may appear they are being somewhat lazy , presumptuous and exploitive, I agree with the posters who say "Yes", and help direct them, and help them access what they need to. It is good P.R., you are perhaps making a useful friend, and the word will get around that not only are a you a solid and highly skilled attorney, but that you are also one of the good guys out there among a sea of sharks.

Again, if you don't cooperate, these days they can simply sit at their desk and find your filings on Odyssey, etc.

Now, I understand that this issue can get a bit more nuanced. For example, what if they also want a lot of material that goes beyond briefs you filed–such as office research memos and other valuable material that is not necessarily otherwise accessible to them. In such instances, I would agree entirely with 11:00. A client may have paid your firm tens of thousands, and you may have spent countless hours on the case. And all of that militates against simply handing over anything that is not directly and publicly accessible to the favor-seeker. As 11:00 suggests, if they are intent on using your publicly accessible briefs to the point of essentially ripping off your writings, that is one issue. But that does not mean as to material they cannot publicly access, that you turn over a bunch of memos, and other internal office material, based on your many hours of work, that a client may have paid thousands of dollars for.

So, 11:00 really got me thinking about this. If Client A paid you $20,000. for all this work, and it is essentially handed over to the favor-seeking attorney and he only expends time justifying like $4,000. in billing(since you already essentially did most of the work for him), he will probably bill closer to the tune of the original $20,000. you charged, rather than the $4,000. figure which accurately reflects the time spent in taking your completed research and writing and modifying it somewhat for his purposes, and then slapping his name on it.

Attorneys who don't merely ask for some help and guidance, but who expect you to hand over a truck load of research and work product, are the types who will bill to the client, not the actual limited time they spent formatting your work for their purposes, but will instead charge an amount to the client that would have been expended had you not handed the attorney all your work, and he instead had to spend all the time to perform all the work himself. He realizes the client will not know better, and the attorney believes he can get away with it as long as he itemizes all the false time he claims to have spent.

So, as 11:00 indicates, this may be a lot more insidious, multi-layered, disturbing and exploitive, than a colleague just asking for a bit of help and direction.