How to Make $30,000 per hour

Trial Lawyers Inc. ^ | 2003

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THE NEW BILLIONAIRES

Top officers of Trial Lawyers, Inc. haul in sky-high fees for little work.

Once upon a time, the average person blanched at lawyer fees that reached upward of $500 an hour at many of the best firms. But those high hourly fees are chump change compared with what Trial Lawyers, Inc. is raking in these days. From tobacco settlements to asbes-to class action suits, the industry now boasts fees that can range as high as an astounding $30,000 an hour, turning some members of Trial Lawyers, Inc. into overnight billionaires and providing the capital to bankroll new lawsuit ventures in new markets.[25]

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Shakespeare was right.

[groanup]

Lawyers should resign from the bar to run for ANY legislative office. It's a conflict of interest between the judiciary and the legislature.

[cyborg]

Seen that movie Devil's Advocate? I'd rather wash toilets than be a trial lawyer. I may be a cash strapped college student with a job, but I sleep well at night.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Lawyers should resign from the bar to run for ANY legislative office. It's a conflict of interest between the judiciary and the legislature.

That would be a good idea in that it would add another layer of seperation between the three branches of government.

But I feel it would take a revolt before that would happen.

[groanup]

"But I feel it would take a revolt before that would happen"

According to Thomas Jefferson we're about two hundred years overdue for one.

[steplock]

"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Sammuel Adams

[tahiti]

"I'd rather wash toilets than be a trial lawyer."

First, let me say I am not a lawyer.

However, individuals blaming the trial lawyers for the exorbitant dollar amounts awarded as compensation for "damages," is the similar exhortations of the Million Mom March bunch when they blame guns for the deaths of humans.

The blame falls squarely and solely on the members of the juries during these trials for the exorbitant damage awards.

The jurist happen to be your fellow citizens.

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TORT REFORM NOW!

[cyborg]

I respectfully disagree. The jury bases its decisions upon what is presented. Trial lawyers are scum manipulators of people.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The blame falls squarely and solely on the members of the juries during these trials for the exorbitant damage awards.
The jurist happen to be your fellow citizens.

Isnt it funny that those who stand not to gain anything would award those who stand to gain everything with unsurmountable riches but the only ones who really profit from these trials ae the lawyers !

The people dont get their loved ones back the money they make usually is used to pay for burial and lawyers fees and court costs

Why do you suppose it is that if the trial lawyers find out your anything but democrat or liberal that your would be a hostile jurer after all you dont pick whos going to be the jurist they do !and yet it OUR FAULT ?

Want to get out of jury duty tell the lawyers your an avid RUSH or HANNITY fan they will drop you like a hot potato !

[Big Mack]

99.6% of all lawyers, give the rest a bad name.

[Bobby777]

99.6% of all lawyers give the rest a bad name.

hehe

[anymouse]

The only good lawyer - is your lawyer. :)

[maxwell]

I respectfully disagree. The jury bases its decisions upon what is presented. Trial lawyers are scum manipulators of people.

Yep-- if you're looking for a blame game, pin it on the lawyers all the way. Who d'ya think selects the juries? There may be a bunch of dirt-licking ignorant yahoos on those juries who wouldn't know a hole from their a$$ in the ground, but consider who wants 'em there. I think it was Alberta's Child who was telling me once that anyone with a semi-analytical training (e.g. engineers, scientists, accountants) hasn't a prayer of making it past what's-it-called, that french term for picking and choosing through potential jurors...

[Wormwood]

I've only been one one jury, but it was enough for me.

I was *stunned* at how casually these idiots were willing to spend other people's hard-earned money.

Another juror and I had to spend hours *begging* the others down from a $100k to $10k damage award (they would budge no further).

I am honestly convinced that my fellow jurors were 'getting off' on the power they were given; the power to manupulate wealth in sums larger then they would ever see in their lifetimes.

I will never forget the grandmother who blithely threw out, 'let's give him $200,000' while never even looking up from her knitting.

[FreedomCalls]

The jurist happen to be your fellow citizens.

The juries are hand-picked by the trial lawyers. Would you support a law that said lawyers cannot challenge a juror -- that they get the next 12 in line regardless of who they are?

[1rudeboy]

Shakespeare was right

Do you mean Dick the Butcher? When he suggests that in order for Jack Cade's communist revolution to succeed, that the lawyers must first be killed?

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As if the tobacco settlement wasn't enough to live on, Motley is now suing the Saudis on behalf of the 9-11 families for ONE TRILLION DOLLARS

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Bingo!