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Have Suit Will Travel - Lose Coat Will Sue
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 10th, 2010
What do you do if you’re a Texas personal injury lawyer who forgets his $800 leather jacket at an airport when boarding a flight?
Since you can afford an $800 jacket and you’re a personal injury lawyer you could probably afford to buy a new one.
Or since you make your living bringing personal injury lawsuits you could threaten . . . to sue the city where the airport is located, the concession where you think you left it and the airline!
That’s what William Ogletree, a Houston trial lawyer chose. The Ogletree case is just one more example of lack of personal responsibility that runs rampant these days. For more of the gory details read this article from the Southeast Texas Record.
College Grad Can’t Find Job, Wants $$$ Back
By JENNIFER MILLMAN Updated 1:29 PM EDT, Mon, Aug 3, 2009
She went to college to boost her chances of finding a great job once she got out of school, but now that that hasn’t happened, Trina Thompson wants her money back.
Thompson, a graduate of Monroe College, is suing her school for the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she hasn’t found solid employment since receiving her bachelor’s degree in April, according to a published report.
Texas Tort Victories: The plaintiffs-lawyer lobby blows $9 million and gets nowhere.
-The Wall Street Journal
Texas recently finished its legislative session, and the best news is what didn’t pass. Namely, some 900 bills put forward by the tort bar.
The plaintiffs-lawyer lobby spent $9 million in last year’s state legislative elections to help smooth the way for these bills, which were designed to roll back tort reforms passed in recent years, or to create new ways to sue. Yet that money wasn’t enough to convince most Texas legislators to give up two-decades of hard-won legal progress, which ranges from class-action clean-up to medical liability reform.