EDWARDS: "Watch it!...I heard that remark through my channeling session in civil court..."
Posted on 08/31/2006 9:59:30 AM PDT by CedarDave
The U.S. attorney’s office today joined in warning attorneys that they would be fined if they violate federal law barring unsolicited communications with family members of Flight 5191 crash victims.
“We are also concerned that victims’ families may be subjected in this time of grief to unsolicited, and thus improper, communications concerning the accident by attorneys and law firms seeking to obtain clients for subsequent litigation,” said U.S. Attorney Amul R. Thapar.
Until 45 days after a plane crash, federal law prohibits attorneys from contacting victims’ families about possible personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits. A $1,000 fine can be imposed for each violation.
Family members who feel they’ve been wrongfully contacted by an attorney can contact the National Transportation Safety Board office of Transportation Disaster Assistance at (202) 314-6185.
The U.S. attorney’s warning follows a similar one issued earlier this week by Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo and after attorneys’ ads provoked consternation and criticism Wednesday.
Three newspaper ads were pulled from the Herald-Leader today after advertisements published Wednesday failed to follow state advertising rules for lawyers.
The Kentucky Bar Association determined the ads didn’t meet its rules that require lawyer ads be submitted at time of publication for review. One of the ads also violated rules by mentioning expertise in a special area of law, and another appeared to be a message to family members. Attorneys can receive private reprimands or license suspensions.
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Bloodsuckers, scumsuckers, etc.
Attorneys are the scum of the earth.
EDWARDS: "Watch it!...I heard that remark through my channeling session in civil court..."
WTF business is this of federal lawyers? This is a state issue.
An utter waste of molecules
Which ones, the ones soliciting the victims, or the ones trying to prevent the victims from being solicited?
Same for the airline attorneys. They will be going through the victims tax returns, trying to prove that their careers were failing, they were alcoholics, they were cheating on their spouses, etc.
The non-solicitation rule is a federal law.
federal lawyers? This is a state issue
FAA the F is for Federal -
I'd love to have someone post those ads on here so that we can all see how caring and thoughtful and calming to the relatives they are.
As much as I despise ambulance-chasing bottom-dwellers, I despise Big Brother even more. The Fed oversteps its bounds when it denies grieving family members a chance to tell the ambulance chasers to go pound sand (or worse).
What's the difference between a lawyer and a vulture? - Wings.
$1000 FINE for a lawyer is no more to them than their spitting on honest Americans.
What is that for most of these trial lawyers? 30-seconds of REAL time - not billed time.
That's what happens when you allow lawyers (Officers of the Court - Judicial Branch) to ignore the Constitution and have them write the laws as legislators (Legislative Branch) and even to approve laws in executive branch.
So now we have those scumbags ruling the masses in ALL branches of the govt - ewspecially if they are demoncrats.
Isn't that called an OLIGARCHY? What happened to our Republic?
The ambulance chasers, and all those that have brought the legal system to where it stands today. Such that a crapweasel can get a bunch of lazy minorities to have a successful class action lawsuit against a company like Boeing. Or the gov't crapweasels that extorted billions from tobacco companies for selling a product that the gov't not only has allowed and abetted, but has taxed to death for decades. Or the ones that channel dead people in court and the judges who don't have the bastard thrown out of the room and shackled.
I was simply pointing out that not all lawyers are "the scum of the earth."
Yes, I know. It actually takes a bunch of good lawyers to fight the onslaught from the slimy ones.
And they usually fight outnumbered.
That's BS. Say 100 people die in a crash, the solicitations cost the lawyer $100,000 in fines. Five families have him represent them, resulting in $10,000,000 in damages ($2M each, low number), and he gets half.
$5,000,000 - $100,000 fines = a $4,900,000 payday. So tell me, where is the punishment for the lawyer in this scheme? These lawyers need to be disbarred, period.
A $1,000.00 Fine that going after a Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit?
I am sure that is going to stop the lawyers.
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