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Posted on 04/07/2007 3:14:35 PM PDT by mom4kittys
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Art Harris also had Judge Seidlin as a guest at his home.
Lesson learned: always copy when I find something on the Internet that Howie would not like.
I would advise copying and also taking a screenshot.
Yes!
True. Unfortunately, there are too many lawyers coming out of the woodwork in this case, too much money, and they all have their eyes on DL's future monies. Even if there is never an award to her in the Marshall case, DL will have a fortune ... if Dickhead doesn't go hogwild or let Howard steal it.
There has never been a job or profession where there wasn't someone who lied or cheated someone in some way.
“There has never been a job or profession where there wasn’t someone who lied or cheated someone in some way.”
I just find it strange that some here say they would believe a law clerk and Opri ...that lawyers and law clerks are fine people. Well, like you said, there are those, as in every profession, I wouldn’t trust. Besides Debra Opri, here are just a few with law degrees I don’t trust...
Howard K. Stern
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Ted Kennedy
Mike Nifong
John Edwards
Harry Reid
John O’Quinn
I think Opri’s bills are outrageous and unfair. $500 for cigars charged to a client? The client paying for your hubby’s trip to the Bahamas? Thousand dollar food bills? She’s disgusting.
Other professionals not to be trusted: Dr. Josef Perper, Dr. Cyril Wecht, Dr. Henry Lee (his action in Specter case was something). I distrust most of the US Senators. Truly a sad state of affairs.
How could Greta cheer creepy Howie, OJ's soul mate? And stupid Ted actually repeatedly called him a Hero. Now there is a true moron. Just because someone filed a lawsuit does not make them a hero.
Two different issues are involved here. (1)Showing a video of Anna Nicole's breast augmentation. Since she was a stripper, I doubt she would have objected and instead would have loved the publicity. (2) Howie filing the lawsuit. His motive more than likely was anything but honorable. The guy is a slimeball.
Hey, Greta. Just because somebody files a lawsuit, good cause or not, does not make him a hero. Why not cover Howie's attempt to swindle somebody out of the house? Him keeping Anna Nicole drugged, illegally giving her drugs prescribed for him? His presence at two deaths that defies any innocent explanation? Him being appointed executor even though he likely poses a very likely danger to Dannielynn?
Just one little comment: John O’Quinn does not belong on the list with the likes of Nifong, Kennedy, Stern, Clinton.
“Then there are the scores of judges who refused to incarcerate violent child rapists.”
Gosh, it seems like we hear of one crooked judge every day on the news setting these child rapists free. When does it stop?
I’ve watched the Spector case every so often on CourtTV, but I’m not aware of Lee’s findings. I never could understand why he has been held in such high regard throughout the years. Are there so few “experts” that they have to depend on him and Wecht for almost every high profile case?
Just pointing out unethical practices...
MASTER OF DISASTER’ PLEADS TO IMPROPRIETY
Source: HENRY EICHEL, Columbia Bureau
John O’Quinn, one of the nation’s richest personal-injury lawyers, pleaded guilty Monday to improperly practicing law by meeting with victims’ families following the 1994 crash of USAir Flight 1016......
King of Torts Gets New Title:
By MAX BOOT
December 5, 1996 Wall Street Journal
John O’Quinn may be the Untouchable Lawyer no more.
After a six-month investigation by a blue-ribbon panel, the State Bar of Texas has initiated a disciplinary proceeding charging the nation’s second-wealthiest attorney with “professional misconduct,” namely ambulance chasing. The bar alleges that Mr. O’Quinn—who has come to symbolize the excesses of an out-of-control legal system—used case runners to sign up clients after the crash of a USAir jet in North Carolina in 1994. Charged along with Mr. O’Quinn are his associate Carl Shaw and two outside lawyers who served as a pipeline to the O’Quinn firm—Benton Musslewhite and son Charles Musslewhite. The bar accuses the attorneys of 89 counts of violating ethics rules, claiming that they “conspired to unlawfully solicit the injured victims of the crash and family members of passengers who died or were injured as a result of the crash.”
Neither the state bar nor the USAir Four had any comment on the complaint, which has not been disclosed previously. Mr. O’Quinn’s attorney even refused to confirm or deny that his client had received the grievance, sent out last month. But ever since the alleged case-running was first reported on this page in January, the lawyers have vehemently denied any wrongdoing. Now the attorneys must formally present a defense to the bar, and then face a confidential hearing before a Houston-area grievance committee. If the panel recommends sanctions, the bar probably would be forced to sue the attorneys to impose any penalty. The ultimate punishment is losing a license to practice law.
The complaint, which amounts to the prosecution’s side of the story and is signed by a state bar investigator, paints a picture of a lavish case-running scheme. According to the complaint, Mr. O’Quinn’s firm paid $100,000 to Benton Musslewhite and his wife, Carolyn, on July 13, 1994, to finance the USAir cases. The lawyers then hired Betty Edward, Charles “Carlos” Williams Jr. and several other individuals “to solicit and procure” clients in South Carolina, where most of the accident victims lived.
Mr. O’Quinn tried to insulate himself from the dealings in South Carolina, but the Texas state bar charges he was in the middle of it. The complaint states that “John M. O’Quinn provided to Benton Musslewhite the monies used to make the $9,500.00 cash payment to Betty Edward,” and also paid for her hotel stay and airline ticket. Two O’Quinn employees who went down to South Carolina—attorney Carl Shaw and nurse Darlene Hopper—”worked with and supervised the unlawful solicitation efforts.” And the attorneys on the spot engaged “in frequent telephone communications” with Mr. O’Quinn.
Mr. O’Quinn is not charged with personally knocking on clients’ doors; that would clearly be beneath the dignity of a tort tycoon who has appeared on the cover of Fortune magazine. Instead, the complaint accuses Mr. O’Quinn of accepting cases he knew had been illegally solicited. Along with the other lawyers, Mr. O’Quinn is also accused of paying non-lawyers to solicit business, “failing to make reasonable efforts” to ensure that his employees complied with the law and not notifying the state bar of the “professional misconduct” of his colleagues.
Of all the attorneys named in the complaint, Mr. Shaw faces the gravest accusations. The bar alleges that Mr. Shaw “offered to pay” one potential client’s “legal fees . . . in a child custody matter” as an inducement for her to sign a contingency-fee agreement. This is worse than mere solicitation and constitutes, in the bar’s opinion, “coercion, duress, fraud, overreaching, intimidation or harassment.”
While the state bar only has the authority to enforce its Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, its allegations also may constitute a violation of Texas’s anti-barratry statute, which makes it a felony to solicit clients. But so far no law enforcement agency in Texas has filed any charges against the USAir Four. Mr. O’Quinn, perhaps not coincidentally, has close ties to many office-holders who would be in charge of such a prosecution. The South Carolina attorney general also has not taken any action against the lawyers, although an investigation remains open.
By contrast, the State Bar of Texas has shown unprecedented vigor this year in the battle against ambulance chasing—even going so far as to mount a sting operation that snared Benton Musslewhite after the ValuJet crash. In the USAir case, the bar asserts jurisdiction over conduct that occurred mainly in South Carolina on the grounds that “a lawyer licensed to practice law in Texas is answerable in Texas for conduct inside Texas or outside of Texas.”
If the state bar follows through with disciplinary action against Mr. O’Quinn, nobody expects the King of Torts to abdicate quietly. Look for a repeat of 1987, the last time he faced case-running charges. To defend himself, Mr. O’Quinn hired some of Texas’s top legal gunslingers—including Richard “Racehorse” Haynes—and mounted every conceivable challenge to the bar’s authority.
This time around, Mr. O’Quinn has already directed a withering rhetorical assault against the state bar and the special panel that put together the complaint against him. Mr. O’Quinn told reporters in June that he’s “an innocent man being smeared,” presumably by evil corporate interests. But if the complaint is any indication, the bar hasn’t been intimidated by all of Mr. O’Quinn’s stomping and hollering.
More recent...
http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/198244-arbitrator-from-pa-orders-oquinn-to-refund-35-million-to-clients
OOPS...of all articles to accidently post twice! Sorry. I’ve asked the mods to remove one. When I tried to post the link only, it was one of those “archives” where you had to pay to read. The only alternative for me was to print the article without paying.
I was disgusted at Greta and the other 3 ‘lawyers’. Did not see Mark Fuhrman join in the stupidity.
Did anyone notice that a video tech. included a side bar clip of the “Clown video” while Howie was being lauded? He/she deserves an award for ‘fair & balanced’. If he/she had access to it - we would have seen a clip of Anna’s C-section.
I am so over Greta and plan to email her!!!!
Larry Birkhead: ‘Priceless’ Items Haven’t Been Returned
August 09, 2007 03:25 PM PDT
Larry Birkhead tells Art Harris that he still hasn’t received some of Anna Nicole’s belongings.
The father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby says personal effects have still not been returned.
LARRY BIRKHEAD says that personal effects like his daughter DANNIELYNN’s birth certificate and first footprints have not been returned to him, after a break-in at ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s home in the Bahamas the day after she died, according to investigative journalist ART HARRIS of www.artharris.com.
Birkhead tells Harris that missing items include “a laundry list of things like birth certificates, the baby’s first footprints, personal photos, priceless things we need so she can know her mother.”
Meanwhile, a court hearing will be held in the Bahamas tomorrow concerning the break-in. The man who says he owns Anna Nicole’s Bahamas home, G. BEN THOMPSON, faces contempt charges and possible jail time stemming from the break-in, Harris reports. Harris spoke exclusively with Thompson’s attorney, GODFREY PRO PINDER, Thursday night, who revealed that Thompson will not be appearing in court, citing fears for his personal safety and “threats from the other side.”
Birkhead does acknowledge that Thompson’s son-in-law FORD SHELLEY flew to Kentucky in May to drop off some effects, but did not return all of the effects.
On the other hand, Shelley told Harris, “Larry [Birkhead] asked me to keep the stuff for him. But when [the late Anna Nicole’s partner HOWARD K. STERN] filed the theft report that I’d broken in, we turned it over and I turned over what I had. What I don’t have I can’t turn over, but when the time is right, it will happen.”
http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/49367/
“”””I warned everyone in the early days of this thread not to trust Greta -”””
Yes you did Liz - sometimes we misplace our faith & hope. Like Brikhead - the lesser of 2 evils.
I’m hoping that O’Quinn truly is a hairy bastit - because my paranoia is leaning toward believing that every judge, lawyer and court reporter are participating in a vast criminal conspiracy to save HK$’ butt from justice.
Why would Larry want the PHONEY birth certificate. It's only a copy at best.
I’ve been checking for new news the last couple of days. With this being around the 6 month anniversary of Anna’s death and with Dannielynn’s birthday coming up the press may get interested again. I bet the Shelley/Thompson clan are wishing that they had never met those Grifters.
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