Re: The New Johnny Cochran

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if your the next JC contact me. seriously no games. show me what you got. i
need representation.

On 11/06/06, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. - Lake Charles, LA wrote:
> Dear Counsel.Net Friends,
>
> I am no Johnny Cochran, although I aspire to be as
> great a lawyer as he was. We all must have goals, so my
> goal is to become "The New Johnny Cochran". Frankly, I am
> sure I could never fill his shoes, but what's wrong with
> wanting to be big enough as a lawyer to do so! So it's
> really with tongue-in-cheek that I call myself "The New
> Johnny Cochran". There is no doubt about it, he was one
> of the greatest lawyers of all times, just like the great
> Gerry Spence, and the late, great Melvin Belli, and the
> late grest Jack Rogers of Louisiana, and the great retired
> lawyer from Lake Charles Robert M. "Bob" McHale, and the
> great Nathan Cormie of Louisiana, still practicing full
> speed ahead after almost fifty years, if not more; and,
> let us not overlook the late, great A. Lane Plauche of
> Louisiana and Tulane Law fame. We have as great lawyers
> in Louisiana as in any other place in American and the
> world. So when I refer to myself as "The New Johnny
> Cochran", don't get mad at me; I could just as well say
> the same about myself and any of the other great lawyers
> of whom I have named above. Who knows! I might one day
> make it as a great lawyer myself! Who knows! Only time
> will tell!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
> Lake Charles, LA
> Tulane Law, Class of 1966 (former collge room-mate of
> the great Louisiana lawyer William D. "Bill" Treeby, No. 2
> man in the Tulane Law Class of 1966, second only to the
> great Cornell International Law Professor John Jack
> Barcello, III, also of the Tulane Law Class of 1966)