Jackson helped hook up Gary with Coca-Cola employees filing a $5-billion discrimination suit against the company a few years ago. When Gary sued Burger King Corp. for $1.9-billion, his pal Jackson served as the mediator who helped settle the case in 2001. Gary said he's never made more than about $25,000 off any of those cases. What pays for his "Wings of Justice" 737, his Rolls Royce and the gold fixtures scattered across his mansion, Gary said, is his work for wealthy white clients - not the low-income African-American clients Jackson sends his way.
"My overhead is a million dollars a day. You know the most we could get out of those (Pinellas) school district cases? Two hundred thousand because of sovereign immunity (restrictions on lawsuits against government)," said Gary, whose track record includes a $500-million verdict against a funeral home chain, a $139-million verdict against Anheuser-Busch, and $240-million against Disney.
"When Jesse calls me, I don't even want to pick up the phone. There's one thing I know when Jesse calls - there's no money there."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/14/State/Reverend__lawyer_team.shtml
Dear lord, just what we need -- a legal pimp.
Willie Gary became a high profile personal injury lawyer when he won a case against FPL on behalf of a family that was trapped in their car by a fallen light pole. If I remember correctly several members tried to leave the car and were killed. This happened out in Indiantown about 20 or so years ago. He won megabucks from FPL and that money gave him and his practice a reputation for winning big money cases.