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    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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