Monthly Archives: April 2007

Friday Ark #134

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Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 158th edition , 4/8, is up at Bad Kitty Cats. The 160th edition will be hosted on 4/15 by Books For Israel . There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #97 hosted on 4/14-15 by A Byootaful Life . Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 46th edition is up and hosted by lovely dark and deep. The 47th edition will be hosted on 4/19 by Bell Tower Birding.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 19th edition is up and hosted by Burning Silo. The 20th edition will be hosted at the end of April by, well, it could be you.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.

Attorney Gone Wild

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I guess this goes in the category of if you don’t ask for it you for sure won’t get it:

…Gary — who calls himself ”the Brioni man” because he favors the Italian designer’s suits — is asking Circuit Court Judge Leroy Moe to approve at least $11,000 an hour, for a total of $24.3 million.
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Gary’s proposed $11,000 hourly fee, for 2,211.5 hours of work, is 11 times more than any other lawyer on the case is seeking. Manuel Socias, Gary’s co-lead counsel, billed 2,920 hours at a rate of $1,000 an hour. Paul Finizio, of Finizio & Finizio in Fort Lauderdale, billed 1,743 hours at $750 an hour.
Gary took the case after SPS agreed to pay him an undisclosed portion of any award, or a contingency fee. He says he deserves more because he was in effect financing a case that might bring him nothing.
Had he won, Gary would have gotten $3.3 billion at a standard contingency-fee rate. That’s $1.5 million an hour.

Let’s be glad that he did not win! Even $1,000 an hour seems pretty damned high to me.
As far as a return on his investment something equal to 10-20%/year should be quite equitable. Let’s see, at a $1000/hour 20% would work out to around $400,000. Oh wait, he didn’t even put in a full year’s time.