Thursday, February 10, 2011

WK 05 EOC: Lawyers Looking for Fame

“People just come to me. I never go looking for clients,” Olivier Metzner, describing his fondness for difficult and unpopular causes.

It seems now a days that trying to find an honest lawyer who is here to actually help you with your problems is like trying to find a mythical unicorn in the park. Every time you turn the TV on, you will see dozens of adds for lawyers claiming to want to help you get what you deserve but when you call them and agree to be their client, you never see the lawyer again and have to deal with their flunkies who are under paid and can care less about your predicament. I recently had a friend who was a passenger in a car that was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He and the other occupants of the car that was hit, called Glen Lerner to represent them. They have never once met Mr. Lerner and have had to fight with his staff to represent them accordingly. His staff has a tendency to try and accept any offer that comes in for a settlement instead of fighting to get more money for their clients. It just seems that all they want to do is take their share of the settlement for as little work as possible, even if it means getting more out of the settlement than the actual victims. How fair is that? As long as they live in a big house on the hill, drive a fancy new car, have 3.5 children, a trophy wife/or husband, and a saving account to make a middle class person weep. They don't care about you; it's all about them.

"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."
Mario Puzo

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