by "ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
Published 11/03/2017 at 17:02
by "ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
Published 11/03/2017 at 17:02
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I had an interesting morning in federal court. I have been defending a class action brought by 8 of my client’s former employees.
The attorney involved is one of these guys, who tried to steal $5 million from their clients in another case.
http://www.chavezgertler.com/recent-news/judge-blasts-class-action-firm-over-5-million-fee-grab/
At mediation, they would not come below $1.8 million. Today, they settled for $57,500 just before a hearing. Why? I don’t think they have any contact with their clients. With no clients, they took what they could get and will keep it for themselves.
I won’t bore you with the details, but they have filed documents in court that should have been accompanied by signed declarations, and weren’t. They refused to produce their clients for depositions. This is not a case that settles at this amount unless there are serious problems.
What a bunch of scumbags. This is why people hate lawyers, and why a lot of that hate is justified. People have taken some public shots at me, but nobody had ever said I put myself ahead of my clients. These guys disgust me.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/03/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 0
A good friend of mine once told me I’d have made a lousy attorney because I am too compassionate.
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
11/03/2017 at 17:12, STARS: 5
Lawyers are like fruit cakes. Most of them are terrible, but a scant few are awesome, and likely full of booze.
"RPM esq." (rpm3)
11/03/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 3
Your friend was wrong. The best lawyers I know are very compassionate people. The worst lawyers I know are the opposite. It’s not a 1:1 correlation, but it’s a correlation.
"RPM esq." (rpm3)
11/03/2017 at 17:16, STARS: 3
Can I put this on my firm bio as a testimonial?
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/03/2017 at 17:17, STARS: 0
I believe you.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
11/03/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 0
That is odd. So they filed suit for clients, but then had no clients?
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/03/2017 at 17:21, STARS: 0
If I had enough money to send half of the lawyers across the ocean....
"RPM esq." (rpm3)
11/03/2017 at 17:24, STARS: 0
You deserve a better class of opposing counsel, my friend.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/03/2017 at 17:28, STARS: 2
I have some friends who are lawyers, but I also know some who are not so nice. I think some areas of legal practice reward those who are sleazy, and those are the ones that get the most attention.
"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
11/03/2017 at 17:33, STARS: 2
A while back I took an intro to law class because I needed an elective. One of the assignments I had was to interview a practicing attorney. A friend of a friend was a personal injury attorney who was a sole proprietor. I asked him, “what qualities are necessary for success as an attorney?”
His reply struck me to the point I remember it years later: “for success as a Personal Injury lawyer, you need two conflicting qualities. You need to be both intensely empathetic and intensely competitive. In a lot of cases I was the only one fighting for my client against these monoliths that are insurance companies and government agencies. I needed to fight as hard as I could.”
"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
11/03/2017 at 17:52, STARS: 2
You’re a good lawyer, but what happened to the rest of the good lawyers? :/
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
11/03/2017 at 18:12, STARS: 0
So my first reaction to that quote was “fucking gag.” Upon reflection, the quote may actually be true for some solo or small firm PI lawyers. However, IMO the vast majority of them — including (and perhaps especially) the ones you see on tv, bus stop ads, the back of the yellow pages, etc. — are money-grubbing fuck knuckles who could give a shit about their clients but instead have set up “referral” arrangements with bullshit chiro clinics who also could give a shit about the clients/patients but instead simply want to run up as big a bill for PT/rehab as possible so as to soak the insurance companies for as much as possible.
Source: friends who are plaintiffs’ lawyers but generally don’t do PI, friends who are defense counsel for two different insurance companies, a friend who co-invested in a chiro clinic like the one discussed above, and the PI case where they actually put me on the jury (and the chiro clinic ignored the plaintiff’s complaint of knee pain by having this rather large person on a treadmill and a fucking stair climber for PT, which either caused or exacerbated a knee injury).
"Jayvincent" (jayvincent)
11/03/2017 at 18:25, STARS: 0
With that much money, I’d suggest sending all the lawyers (minus IM, of course) half way across the ocean...
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/03/2017 at 18:30, STARS: 0
Yeah, that’s the rest of the joke. I figured the lawyer had already heard it, though.
"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
11/03/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 0
Same attorney actually told me he left one of the big “we air cheesy commercials during daytime and late night TV,” firms because they had a similar attitude.
Said they referred to their client list as “inventory.”
"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
11/03/2017 at 20:26, STARS: 0
I heard a funny story of a lawyer who noticed that certain lawyers would have a preference for which side of the courtroom, so the day of the trial he would show up extra early, take that side, just to watch the other one act like a petulant child and get them frazzled.