Posted On: December 17, 2004, 5:12 pm CST

Posted By: Dean Blake, J. D.

I have worked insurance defense in Los Angeles for twenty years; three as Corporate litigation defense supervisor for Farmers, and I was suprised to see a blanket slander of our judiciary. If ATRA knows of a judge who is a problem, why don't they use the regular channels to get him/her off the bench? Use the appeals process to overturn the ruling. Oh, you say they're ALL no good, huh!?!? Sore loosers is what I read between the lines, loosers who blame everyone but themselves for poor corporate oversight and management. That's what happens when you hire 'yes men,' inside legal counsel of that character included. Its so much easier to rant and rave and blame others than to reform your own operations, or at least appraise in-house counsel before you act. I'm sick of being an "I told you so" to corporations and getting waylaid for rendering an opinion warning of pitfalls and how to avoid them and being told I'm a 'chicken little.' Now ATRA is the 'chicken little' of the judicial system.