Right Idea. Wrong Lawyer

OK, I have to rise to the defense of my profession. While I am not a fan of the class action litigators (I do transactional work myself), Brown, Rundnick and the others entered into a CONTRACT with Mass AG, who now simply doesn't want to pay. The whole thing is sick - I doubt there has ever been a legal industry in U.S. history that has been the victim of such an enormous and cynical extortion by government. For the attorneys general to now throw accusations of greed at the lawyer who helped them is the height of hypocrisy. The only real argument for voiding a contract of this nature is that the bargaining power of the parties was unequal or there was some mistake of fact. Thus, we must believe that the chief legal agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the full weight and coercive might of a venerable and commercially important state behind it, was somehow duped or taken advantage of. I say screw 'em - let them pay their share of the loot to the lawyers.

Posted by Scott Pueschel at November 10, 2003 1:50 PM

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Posted by Ottewell at January 13, 2004 9:33 AM