Personally, I find Mr. Rava as odorous as a bag of dyspeptic hamsters. He's a greasy manipulator who has found a small leak in American law and stuck an open wallet under it. When they wrote California's Unruh Civil Rights Act in 1959 -- the act Rava cites in his suits -- they never thought soulless creatures like him would someday slink about the earth.
I got ya by a second or two on that one TT.TwinTownBisonFan wrote:do the dudes get a free nut cup on fathers day?
Especially the class action derivative suits where millions of plaintiffs get paid $5 a share, etc. Can't necessarily blame the attorneys though. I believe all of these attorneys fees are approved by the court.JoltinJoe wrote:The compensation paid to the plaintiff and other members of the class is only half the story.
If some national journalist, like a 60 Minute reporter, ever did an expose on class action lawsuits, and the compensation paid to class action counsel for representing the class, your head might shake in disbelief.
Talk about a well-intentioned concept which has been abused.
He is a bigger dick than AZWhat's amazing is that Rava's own mother died of breast cancer at age 53. How would she feel about his crass-action lawsuit?
I struggle to find the right words to properly express my feelings about lawyersWill you be in New York soon? I have some papers for you ...Cleets Part 2 wrote:I've really enjoyed the time I've had & the opportunity I've had to spend with lawyers in my life...
A classy bunch...
Particularly the one who my wife hired (that I paid for) in California who spent what looks like 28 billable hours @ $250.00 an hour - to convince her that the amicable pre-negotiated divorce was not in her best interest...
And then the patent lawyers from GE who sued my team at Scientific-Atlanta for technology infringements - they cost us about $175,000.00 in fees and we won... because they didn't even really understand what we were doing (nor did they listen to us when we explained that to them clearly) but don't let complete lack of understanding stop you from ringing up hundreds of thousands in legal fees
And the ones at Dolby Labs who (for some strange reason) attempted to destroy the 20 year relationship and technology sharing agreement between our two companies - by all appearances so they could "look like they were doing something" allowing them to stay on retainer I guess...