As an attorney in nyc, t think Trump did aok here.
Yada yada yada.....
This may be legally correct, but is it morally correct? It is Donald Trump, at least three times over.
And we are supposed to utterly trust you? Are you a lawyer too?
This is actually a very common story with Trump. It is a tendency on public display as well. At the first opportunity we see Trump yell, “And don’t pay them. I’m not paying! Oh, and take his coat.”
He is unscrupulous dealer. The art of the deal? Steal.
Sounds like your friend should have had a more carefully-drawn contract, but if this is true it’s pretty sleazy.
Just because you can do something, it doesn’t mean you should.
They need to hire a competent attorney who can draft up a contingent fee agreement for them.
Oh goody. Stories from friends and friends of friends and cousins neighbors sisters.
IF these atty are such hot shots why didn’t they sue to be paid for work product? Are they do stupid they didn’t send billable hours.
The story you tell us a joke iF true it tells me these lawyers are naive and not really worth a million bucks
Not the first time they worked w The Donald? Their own dingdang fault.
...So this lawyer friend was outsmarted by a reality TV star....
Okay, no thanks, I will seek some other lawyer to represent me. (Did that admission boost the lawyers resume??)
Well this is new one. Now you want us to sympathize with some attorneys over Trump. You’re pathetic.
I hired a group of big name Chicago attorneys some year’s back when are partner froze me out of an investment. They did a nice job for me.
When we came to working out a nice settlement out of court, I went over the bill MY attorneys had submitted to me. I almost choked.
The bill was so obviously padded, I was dumbstruck. The attorney fees amounted to almost what I would be getting. they were charging what amounted to 8 hours per day, day in and day out for like 6 months. They had padded multiple attorneys for research.
I consulted with another attorney who had been on the ethics board who said the bill was obviously padded, but said I was forced to pay it or else they would sue me, and put a lien on everything.
I PROMPTLY FIRED THEM BEFORE THEY COULD THAT. I then hired an attorney who reported them to the Illinois Professional Regulations Board, (they did nothing), but in the end I settled with these guys for about 25 cents on the dollar which was still WAY more than I should have.
I’ve since noticed that this firm was notorious for doing this esp if the client was well off.
I suspect that the same thing happened here with Trump. He saw their bill in the millions, and fired them before they could do anything, then negotiated with them from a position of strength.
Here’s another example of why I like the guy.
Trump’s bragged that he’s really good with contracts. As a lawyer, the fact that he found a way to exploit a loophole in a lawyer’s fee agreement in order to save a bundle sounds good to me. Does anyone really think lawyer’s don’t get paid enough?
Typically settlements go to the lawyer first or checks are split when defendant pays up
And that is written into contract
Sounds familiar. I am aware through a very good source, how Trump and his lawyer team, destroyed a group of construction companies who contracted with him. Can’t go into details but it was dirty stuff, and a big gotcha at the end. They would love to go public with their claims, but alas, there was a crafty clause in their original contract about confidentiality and disclosure and since they have almost been wiped out by the billionaire, they can’t risk it.
Trump has or has had 100s of business arrangements in his professional life
The MSM is scouring the world for the disgruntled
You have to wonder why besides your anecdotal anonymous retelling that there are none or very few anywhere I’ve seen
Trump made his gold making deals in places others had tried and figuring out how to work with zoning and codes which isn’t easy
His big stories in business are recovery from near collapse and the original hotel deal near Grand Central...the Hyatt I think it was
And Trump tower and then the railyards which took a deft hand and his fathers help
Since recovery he’s been pretty much on a roll
Ivanka though is whose style and hand folks see in the image today more than her dads on all their condo and hotel properties
She has an eye for detail on aesthetics
From her mother
Incompetent lawyers FEEL THE BUTTHURT. If they did Lawyering 101, they would now have their million dollars. That is, in the unlikely event that this is actually a true story.
Incompetent lawyers FEEL THE BUTTHURT. If they did Lawyering 101, they would now have their million dollars. That is, in the unlikely event that this is actually a true story.
While this story seems in character for Trump, you’ll have to name names, show paperwork and allow for objective “peer review” before this can be taken seriously.
I know 300+ million Americans who were ripped off by 535 past and present members of CONgre$$ for $19,000,000,000,000.
$18,902,269,187,803+
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling - which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes - can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 - long before the appearance even of socialism itself - France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
The Law Defends Plunder
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it.