crimzy
Active Member
(Insert your lawyer joke here)
Of course everyone likes to poke fun at attorneys, which is fine, but you all don't even know the half of it...
I am, for the most part, a pretty straightforward attorney. I tend to be an aggressive litigator, but I am professional, respectful, and a good advocate for my clients. What's annoying me right now is this...
I have a client who owns an auto parts supplier. My client, like thousands of others, has lost their business due to the downturn of the big 3. Anyway, my client is no longer in operation... I am defending them in about 6 different lawsuits, most of which are over 6 figures. My client is liquidating all assets (which are just receivables) and using those to pay the secured and unsecured creditors. The only purpose to my defense is to prevent the creditor from coming in, taking a judgment, and garnishing the accounts where the liquidated assets are being held pending the distribution to creditors. I have explained the situation to all of the opposing attorneys and my client has agreed to GIVE them judgments for the full amount of their claims with the only condition that they cannot proceed with post-judgment collection (garnishments) until 90 days have passed. By that time the liquidation will be complete and it won't matter.
So in comes a particularly large (and scummy) firm that I have dealt with many times before. I explain to the young attorney what's going on and offer to give her the same type of judgment that I've given everyone else. Well being a young attorney, whose advancement is dependant ONLY on billable hours, she rejects my offer and instead files a 218 page motion for summary judgment.
It really doesn't matter to me what happens here... there's no reason for me to even answer the motion. By the time that it gets heard and they could garnish, the liquidation will be over anyway. But what really annoys me is this firm's blatant disregard of what's in its client's best interest and instead sucking as much blood from it's client as possible. The reality is that regardless of whether the attorney spend 5 minutes or 50 hours on this file, it won't have ANY AFFECT on the recovery for the client. Unsecured creditors are all getting their pro rata portion of the liquidation assets.
What a waste...
Just my rant.
Of course everyone likes to poke fun at attorneys, which is fine, but you all don't even know the half of it...
I am, for the most part, a pretty straightforward attorney. I tend to be an aggressive litigator, but I am professional, respectful, and a good advocate for my clients. What's annoying me right now is this...
I have a client who owns an auto parts supplier. My client, like thousands of others, has lost their business due to the downturn of the big 3. Anyway, my client is no longer in operation... I am defending them in about 6 different lawsuits, most of which are over 6 figures. My client is liquidating all assets (which are just receivables) and using those to pay the secured and unsecured creditors. The only purpose to my defense is to prevent the creditor from coming in, taking a judgment, and garnishing the accounts where the liquidated assets are being held pending the distribution to creditors. I have explained the situation to all of the opposing attorneys and my client has agreed to GIVE them judgments for the full amount of their claims with the only condition that they cannot proceed with post-judgment collection (garnishments) until 90 days have passed. By that time the liquidation will be complete and it won't matter.
So in comes a particularly large (and scummy) firm that I have dealt with many times before. I explain to the young attorney what's going on and offer to give her the same type of judgment that I've given everyone else. Well being a young attorney, whose advancement is dependant ONLY on billable hours, she rejects my offer and instead files a 218 page motion for summary judgment.
It really doesn't matter to me what happens here... there's no reason for me to even answer the motion. By the time that it gets heard and they could garnish, the liquidation will be over anyway. But what really annoys me is this firm's blatant disregard of what's in its client's best interest and instead sucking as much blood from it's client as possible. The reality is that regardless of whether the attorney spend 5 minutes or 50 hours on this file, it won't have ANY AFFECT on the recovery for the client. Unsecured creditors are all getting their pro rata portion of the liquidation assets.
What a waste...
Just my rant.
