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August 15, 2006
Baghdad Bob With A Law License
Over at Dodo World I tend to rant about attorneys who act like demons with law licenses.
However, one American attorney is acting like Baghdad Bob*.
The attorney is claiming that his clients won a federal lawsuit against an insurance company.
In reality, his clients lost.
According to the AP story about the lawsuit (click here to read it), the plaintiffs' attorneys had asked for more than $158,000, plus interest and attorneys' fees and expenses.
What did the plaintiffs get?
Answer: $1,228.
That's less than 1% of the amount that the plaintiffs wanted, not including the money that their attorneys wanted for themselves.
If the plaintiffs' attorneys think that their clients won, then the attorneys aren't working pro bono. They're working pro Bozo.
*In case you have forgotten, back in 2003, Baghdad Bob was the spokesman for Saddam Hussein's regime who kept denying that the U.S. military had entered Baghdad, in spite of the obvious fact that the U.S. military had indeed entered Baghdad.
Posted by Dodo David at August 15, 2006 08:30 PM
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(feels his law school training making him twitch)
But...but...but...he did win!
(assumes fetal position)
Posted by: Charles at August 15, 2006 10:32 PM
Gee, I miss Baghdad Bob (or, as Tim Blair sometimes called him, Comical Ali). Best BB quote ever: "There are no Americans at the airport and they are committing suicide!"
Posted by: Ken S at August 16, 2006 03:32 PM