Posted On: November 16, 2004, 4:56 pm CST

Posted By: John A. O'Hara III

I've worked in professional Liability claims management for 30 years, & the toughest aspect of settling claims is coming up with enough money to satisfy the attys. The plaintiff's are generally not the problem. If these attys can afford to spend $25 Million to defeat Amend. #3, they must be making a heck of a lot of money already. It is all about Greed & Ego. These attys do not always work in their clients best interests, but always in their own. They make the same fee % no matter how little work they may have to do on some cases. On smaller value cases, often the atty makes more than the client, after costs, etc. There are enough attys out there that not too many people will be unable to find a competent atty to take there case, if it actually has merit & value.