Dynasoar- One word of advice to you (or anyone for that matter), from someone who has spent *,***,***.00"s of dollars in legal fees, no matter what they say, they are not YOUR ATTORNEY, au contraire, you are their MEAL TICKET. This is true 99.9% of the time. If you (or the defendant) have any money, I guarantee the combined legal costs will be AT LEAST what you are litigating for. that is the way the system works. If you are lucky you will break even unless you go on contingency. I know this upfront going into any litigation-I do it only for principle, not for profit (or to break even).
More often than not the only parties that come out of litigation whole are the parties with:
a) no money; or
b) all the money.
At least on the Left Coast. That is just the way it works, its all about the money.
Anyone disagrees, PM me with your attorney. I will have a ton of business for them.
If you are an attorney, and disagree, be forewarned, I have my LL.B from the school of C.A.S.H. and I know your program, i.e. you want to transfer as much money as possible from my account to yours. Period.
I only represent individuals who have been injured in accidents. Not one time in my career have I ever received more money than my client. Facts of cases differ and lots of times I was contractually entitled to have received more than my client but I have always reduced my fee to compensate for this. How many times have you ever voluntarily reduced your pay?
In an injury case people are compensated based on their injuries. However if there is limited insurance and high medicals the bottom line for the client may be low or near nothing as the medical providers normally have subrogation rights that entitle them to be paid before the plaintiff is. That is not the fault of the attorney just the facts.
I do not charge my clients for recovering property damages. I have done this as a service for my injury clients for years. After the hurricanes I helped several people recover for their property damages and could not in good faith charge them when they needed the money that I worked to recover for them, in order to provide a home for their families. How much "free" work did you perform for your employer last year?
Your experiences seem somewhat like those of a couple of my former clients. They had major injuries and the defendant either had no insurance or very little. Of course it was the attorneys fault that he could not collect thousands of dollars for them from an unemployed drunk or drug addict. Had they purchased underinsured/ uninsured motorist coverage as discussed in an earlier thread, they would have recovered what was due to them. But instead of acknowledging their own fault in failing to take the steps necessary to protect themselves in the event of a wreck with little or no insurance, they simply blamed their attorney.
I am truly sorry that your experiences with the legal world have been less than satisfactory. With that said, as you can tell, I do not think such experiences give you the right to criticize my profession as a whole. There are good and bad people in every walk of life. I am judged by my clients on a daily basis and I am still in business so I must be doing something right, though getting rich is not one of the things that I am doing. In fact I have spent the better part of the last year doing work where I am losing money because people have just needed help. The financial effects of this have recently become evident and accordingly your post caught me at the wrong time. For those I may have offended I apologize.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that I am now on dp. Just point me to my corner and let me know when I can come out and play again.
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