Update: Lost Pants Lawyer Gets Nothing

June 25th, 2007

This was nice to see: “Lost Pants Litigant Gets Nothing“.

Perhaps this will restore some of the faith in lawyers and the legal system that this lawyer cost us.

How Lawyers Earn Their Own Bad Reputation

June 11th, 2007

This is how lawyers bring disrepute to their entire profession:

ATTORNEY SUES FRIEND OVER RIGHTS TO

COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TICKETS

OMAHA — An Omaha lawyer is suing a lifelong friend over rights to the pair’s eight College World Series tickets.

Omaha attorneys Jerry Slusky and Howard Hahn have shared the season tickets for 20 years, but now other lawyers hired by the two are preparing for court on Monday, four days before the first game of this year’s series on Friday.

Kathryn Morrissey, the executive director of CWS of Omaha Inc., said the organization gets calls each year from feuding families who threaten to sue one another and ask the CWS to determine ticket ownership.

Read it all here.

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Then, of course, there is the lawyer who sued this family business for losing his $65 million pants.