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| Sit-Com Vehicle for Jason Alexander! | Mark | Jan 6, 2006, 5:03 pm |
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Subject: Florida lawyer loves the concept -- need a consultant?
Sometimes, hopefully rarely, people are taken advantage of by someone they turned to when they were vulnerable and needed help. Deceived by someone they had every reason to believe they could trust. Violated by someone they should have been able to trust.
Discovery of such betrayal shakes our faith. Even more so when it occurs within the sanctity of an attorney-client relationship. And still more when the duplicity becomes so commonplace at a law firm that it's simply dismissed as a routine business practice.
Nine years working in legal and management positions in large insurance companies opened my eyes to shenanigans the public rarely hears of. Strategies employed by adjusters to minimize average claim payments can be shocking.
Recent experience working for a large Jacksonville law firm representing personal injury clients revealed the firm's practice of regularly 'padding' costs charged to clients by $300 or more per case. The firm had been engaging in the overcharging pracices for several years. Hundreds of clients were overcharged and the combined misappropriated funds are estimated at several hundred thousand dollars. Hundreds of clients were overcharged in this manner and the combined misappropriated funds are estimated at several hundred thousand dollars. The firm's settlement statements and accounting records clearly document its overcharging practices.Examples of the firm's overcharging practices and supporting documents are available on my personal web page called "Hill's Peek" at http://home.comcast.net/~email4hill/wsb/index.html.
State Bars that are lax in regulating lawyer misconduct even after it's been identified, reported and documented present even more story line possibilities for the series.
Hmmmm.... Perhaps some of this could make it into the pilot episode of "Personal Injury".