Copperblazer
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Texas woman hit with $1.3 million-plus electric bill.
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06-21-2012 01:43 PM |
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Copperblazer
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RE: Texas woman hit with $1.3 million-plus electric bill.
Do lawyers trust other lawyers?
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06-25-2012 01:05 PM |
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BAMANBLAZERFAN
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RE: Texas woman hit with $1.3 million-plus electric bill.
Dear ABBY once wrote in reply to a letter critical of doctors, "Remember that half of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their medical school class". The same might apply to lawyers and other grad school professionals as well. Add to that the fact that many of the better grads from law school go into the corporate business world rather than hang out their "shingle" as an independent ot group attorney. Did you note the state (pushed into law by the ABA) required disclaimer attached to all lawyer ads on TV?
In "Mark Twain Tonight", Hal Holbrook as Twain tells "I was once introduced by a local attorney who talked with his hands in his pockets as a humorist who is really funny. I told the crowd that we had someone more rare than a humorist who is really funny. We had a lawyer who kept his hands in his own pockets".
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06-28-2012 10:18 AM |
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blazr
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RE: Texas woman hit with $1.3 million-plus electric bill.
The problem is that hardly anyone is a "real" lawyer anymore. They're arbitrators, at best, glorified house-flippers at worst. Their job is to calculate the leverage in your case and how much effort/expense they'll need to exert to get a settlement vs. the likely value of said settlement. I had a retaliatory discharge case in the 90s for which I hired a lawyer. As the actual court date got nearer he seemed more and more surprised that my former employer wouldn't settle. When it did go to court I realized that both my lawyer and their lawyers were idiots and the only reason it ever saw a courtroom was my former employers were arrogant asses - hence the retaliatory discharge - who refused to settle (not saying that's wrong...I'm saying that's all the lawyers on either side wanted to do). They paid however much that team cost over 2 years, flew in all the owners from Texas, and basically flipped a coin on a jury for 6 figures. They won, it didn't help that I was very young and had a better career 2 years after the fact, but at whatever all of that cost out of their pockets.
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06-29-2012 08:39 AM |
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Copperblazer
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RE: Texas woman hit with $1.3 million-plus electric bill.
I know exactly what you mean. I was a victim of the legal system a few years ago. It does not matter if you are in the right, or innocent, just what the jury is willing to believe.
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06-29-2012 12:40 PM |
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