Yearly Archives: 2007

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.

A Few Reasons Some Folks Might Want Back in Prison

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This is not why the US has by far the highest rate of incarceration in the world (PDF) but perhaps some changes are in order to either reduce prison’s popularity or enhance the workplace:

In Prison, At Work
Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this should make things a little bit clearer.
IN PRISON……….you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell.
AT WORK…………you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.
IN PRISON………you get three meals a day.
AT WORK……….you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.
IN PRISON……….you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK…………you get more work for good behavior.
IN PRISON………the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK………..you must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself.
IN PRISON……….you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK…………you could get fired for watching TV and playing games.
IN PRISON………you get your own toilet.
AT WORK………..you have to share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat.
IN PRISON………..they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK………….you aren’t even supposed to speak to your family.
IN PRISON………all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.
AT WORK………..you get to pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
IN PRISON……….you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK ………..you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.
IN PRISON…….. .you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK…………they are called managers.

Blatantly lifted from ROFLs.