Re: IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY!

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Don't be so hard on the old guy! I think he should win an
award for speaking out on this important issue of business
ethics.

Don Simon, Ph.D.

On 11/18/03, Meanlawyer wrote:
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> Hey, man! You can't seem to get off this IOLTA thing! As I
> see it, if the bar foundations want to steal the interest
> off client's money, let them do it. Who cares! You are
> carrying on a one-man crusade against something that is not
> going to go away. There is too much money to be made by the
> bar foundations, and the bar foundations are made up of the
> leading lawyers in the legal profession. You need to join
> the bar foundation. That is, if they would have you. I
> would do you good. Then maybe you would not be such a
> radical lawyer. Hey, nobody cares about IOLTA except you!
> Yes, it's a type of stealing, but look at all the good the
> bar foundations do with the money they steal. I am a big
> beliver that the end justifies the means. Give it up! Get
> a life!
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> Meanlawyer
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> On 11/07/03, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. wrote:
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>> IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY!
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>> Poor old Pinch!
>> He had it hard.
>> For precious little
>> He was disbarred.
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>> The court of mercy
>> Had not and ounce
>> And skimmed the interest
>> Off the trust accounts.
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>> Some say they are
>> The slickest guys in the nation,
>> Skimmin' through
>> The Bar Foundation.
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>> All lawyers must keep
>> Interest bearing accounts
>> And the Foundation skims the interest
>> Off these amounts.
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>> Millions of dollars we have been told
>> From lawyers' clients who lose their gold.
>> Me! Me! Me! O My!
>> It makes me want to cry!
>>
>> -h.p.
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Re: IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY!, 1/11/04, by v.

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