Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Uh.... earth to wannabe lawyers
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:11:00 -0500

> Austin is right, with a caveat that follows.
>
> In a message dated 3/26/02 9:13:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> darkroom@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> > Some  personal injury cases are entirely legitimate, but a
> large number of
> the
> >  ones I hear about (and know first hand) are just absurd, and
> would not go
> >  anywhere unless some unscrupulous lawyer got involved.
>
> ..........it requires an unscrupulous plaintiff to get to the
> unscrupulous
> lawyer.

I have seen lawyers talk clients into cases that should never ever be tried.
These clients are to dumb to know any better, and are simply doing what the
lawyer tells them.  That doesn't make the client unscrupulous, just dumb.

> I've been strongly in favor of tort
> reform for
> 25 years.

Me too!

Austin

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