In a message dated 3/2/2008 5:48:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
whitejeeps@yahoo.com writes:
the lawyer takes half of the money for a week in court.
That's a little naive. I just finished a case (settled out of court) where
the lawyer did plenty of work, laid out plenty for expenses including expert
witness and he got the routine 30 percent, not half, and the expenses come
out of his end, not mine.
Karen
"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you
would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
- Mark Twain
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