When I see stories like this, I want to string up lawyers…
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2691638,00.html
Good thing we’re rewarding kids for reaching out to people!..
Meanwhile…somewhere in Florida…a 10 year old boy is raping an 8 year old girl…and a bunch of wrestlers are hogtying a learning disabled team-mate and zapping him with an electric grill igniter…
unbelievable …
tri bry guy
you look like a fool making a statement like that. first off, what do you do for a living? i’m sure no one in your “industry” has ever done something that you (or I) would find distasteful. second, if you actually read the article, the matter was handled in small claims court - no lawyers. just one crotchety old lady with nothing better to do. If anything, the families had a lawyer to protect themselves. Or should a lawyer not defend the girls?
but no need to paint broad strokes like that. especially when you are completely wrong
Well, I’ll argue that this isn’t the attorney’s who are looking at this a little odd.
This strikes me, according to the report, as absurd.
You know, life is glass half empty, glass half full. You can look at the bad stuff like this example or you can look at the good stuff like our lawyer Pete.
In my 43 years I’ve seen the very best this life and people can offer- and also the very worst. I choose to focus my energy on acknowledging mostly the best stuff, but being mindful of the worst stuff.
People that are destructive and bad, I remember, acknowledge and keep away from me. They won;t change, and life is too short to wait for apologies that never come. Best to just put them out of your life and remember why you did- and leave it at that.
People and things that enrich your life, bring you hope and friendship- those are the places to invest your energy and acknowledgement more vigorously.
You have to invest energy in remembering and protecting yourself from the bad- but not to the detriment of the good.
So I choose to look at the good things attorneys do and acknowledge that. That’s what I was talking about.
See the documentary,
“Murder on a Sunday Morning”
and you will change your tune about lawyers forever.
"I want to string up lawyers… "
Yes - but the real question is will you want to hire a lawyer after you get caught.
SFH:
Let me guess that you might be a lawyer… Just a wild guess.
Lehmkuhler
I think it is inappropriate to visit someone annanounced at 10:30 pm. The girls were wrong.
I work in corporate finance. I’m just in a bad mood, and didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. He just as easily could have said “Let’s string up old women” or "Let’s string up . Just doesn’t make sense to throw the baby out with the bathwater
There’s a bunch of us here lawyers on this site.
I was sitting in my chair last night listening to some radio ad promoting a legal liability policy and the ad said: “if you are a business person, one in three of you will get sued this year…”
I kind of have an even more scary take than that.
I think if you simply just sat in a chair and did absolutely nothing but sit in a chair, frozen but breathing, and harmed not a soul, said nothing, never ventured out, never took any risks, had some fortune amassed and managed in which bills were always timely paid, and you never bothered even a fly, and you just sat and watched TV, peaceful like Quai Chang, the odds are somebody’s going to sue your ass into oblivion before its all over with.
Why the lawyers???
The Judge should have thrown the case out of court.
More so – what about the people who sue?? This woman was wrong for bringing the case to court - the woman - not the lawyers she hired to do their job.
Well said SlowFatHappy guy.
Or put it in terms TriBriGuy, might, just might understand: So we see some members of the armed forces torturing prisoners, we see others shooting injured insurgents . . . it makes me so mad that I want to string them all up.
Idiocy, right?
Get off the high horse and realize every batch has a bad lot.
It was small claims court… I doubt if Ms. Young even had a lawyer
Be mad at the judge… be mad at Ms. Young… Why be mad at lawyers?
Why would Young hire a lawyer to recoupt $900? She’d spend more than that on fees… and no contigency lawyer would take a case that might win $900.
You need to think about these things before going off half-cocked…
We live in an absurd society where people sue other people for terrible reasons. The real cause is idiot people but the lawyers are more visible and an easier target so they catch the fire.
I propose a very liberal countersuit movement where there would be harsh consequences for bringing absurd lawsuits. I think that when people can sue with nothing to lose (lawer gets paid from the “winnings”) it breeds frivolous cases. If people had to risk something, most likely substantial sums of $, they would think twice.
But I probably don’t know what I’m talking about…
Lehmkuhler
My thoughts:
1 - Why hate on the lawyers? They didn’t do anything wrong here.
2 - The girls shouldn’t have banged on the door and ran because that may scare some people.
3 - The woman who sued them is a stupid.
actually, you do know what you’re talking about. it already exists in the form of “sanctions.” the judge can sanction a lawyer for bringing a frivolous case, and the opposing party’s attorney can request the same - including the payment of its fees. But then you go to court over that. More lawyers and more time and money. Plus, it’s difficult to enforce. Everyone always thinks they have a claim
There is an interesting correlation in my experience with frivolous suits being brought by those with very little to lose. In these cases, threats of sanctions or legal fee awards are idle threats as any judgment against them is uncollectible. But sanctions more liberally imposed by judges would be a good thing. In my state, sanctions for frivolous suits brought by lawyers on behalf of clients are split 50/50, meaning an aggressive lawyer can get tagged if he or she does not exercise sound judgment. By and large, “frivolous” or silly cases occupy a tiny fraction of the courts’ dockets, they just happened to be the ones people fixate on.
"That states need to do what we have in Canada…you can sue whomever you want, however, if you lose, you pay everything. "
I’m not a lawyer but believe that’s how it works. I know that we have a lot less of these silly cases. Most of these cases would be laughed out of court in most countries.
Yeah, but I heard the old lady rides a P3 so she’s gotta be ok…
B.
Even if she had had a lawyer. Lawyers don’t sue. Clients do. Lawyers don’t award damages, judges and juries do.