The Facts Our (future) client — we’ll call him George because that’s his name — was retired and looking for something to do. He eventually settled on politics. Not as a politician, but as a gadfly (his word, not ours). He became a fixture at local city council meetings, and would routinely take to the mic to express what a

Epic Tough Love Every once it a while I get a case that is so epic, it erases and occupies the space of all the legal nonsense I’ve had to endure for the prior five years. The Case of the Man Who Needed Some Tough Love is just such a case. The case involved a loan made by our client

This story is yet another cautionary tale of a posturing attorney, showing that such tactics are unnecessary and unsupportable. It can be hard for some to view a court dispute with the dispassionate eye of a business person looking only at the bottom line. Some attorneys, intentionally or not, fuel the litigation fever with unrealistic promises of what can be

“Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.” — Cathryn Louis As the saying goes, “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” Such was true in the case of the greedy investor, who decided he could eke out a little more profit by suing our client. The facts of this case began 34 years ago. In 1986, our clients (let’s call

Making the law better. To do my part to make the law better, I occasionally take a case on what I call a “quasi pro bono basis,” meaning that I still charge the client, but at a greatly reduced rate. I only do this when the case presents an interesting issue, and it appears that the system is running over