Post: Being a Mass Tort Attorney Sucks

Posted by Withheld HAHAHA on 12/20/06
The clients are idiots - they want their money now and dont understand you represent them in a lawsuit that could take years - of course by the time you and medicare get your shares, they dont get much anyway. Some of the clients forget who you are, lie in their depositions, accuse you of misconduct, etc. etc. Half of them dont even have a real case, but you keep them in case you can get them some money from the global settlement anyway. Other Plaintiffs attorneys suck - they all want your cases as referrals and give you a crappy share in return plus you still have to deal with the stupid clients! the PSC members are all greedy as hell, taking percentages of your fee even when they do nothing, or they delay the litigation for years, settle their own cases in leave you in the lurch - thanks a lot! Another group of plaintiff attorneys are blowhards that talk a lot and say nothing, offer nothing, give nothing. Most of them think they are smarter than they really are. A bunch of the really stupid ones nag about some stupid peripheral case they have that doesnt even revolve around the signature injury like they've found some new amazing adverse event, but in truth their case lacks any scientific merit whatsoever. Defense attorneys - these men and women are truly whores - even when their stupid client has done something incredibly wrong, they pester you about fact sheet deficiencies and move to have your case dismissed, necessitating a $2,000 trip to podunk iowa or some other MDL court to explain to some disinterested or hostile federal judge why the defense argument violates the FRCP. Federal Judges - the ones that oversee MDLs - generally think the plaintiffs are full of BS and ramrod some crappy settlement on everyone (except the PSC) and completely ignore the possibility that some plaintiffs have meritorious claims. Defendants - look, these big corporate defendants dont all do wrong, but some of them do. The ones that do wrong are protected by the ones who dont, who are afraid they'll get sued someday. Ever notice how its the same bad companies sued over and over? The execs at those companies should go to jail, but do you think the republican administration is going to arrest their corporate sponsors? In the Middle Ages, ken lay would have been put to death for what he did (at least there's some justice there). There are people at Wyeth, Bayer, Merck, GM, etc. who should be in jail and not getting multimillion dollar bonuses so they can take their families on vacation to the Caymans. You get them in depos and they lie through their teeth and they never really pay the price for their misconduct. UGGGGGGHHH - I hate these people and I hate this business.
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- Being a Mass Tort Attorney Sucks, 12/20/06, by Withheld HAHAHA.
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