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"ambulance chaser" is a colloquial term for a reason. I've sat on a jury for 2 days on a malpractice case that had no factual basis, that relied on a tortured
by JediWing 7y ago
"ambulance chaser" is a colloquial term for a reason.
I've sat on a jury for 2 days on a malpractice case that had no factual basis, that relied on a tortured interpretation of medical notes.
We unanimously decided the case for the defendant. Wish we had the opportunity to somehow penalize the lawyer for wasting everybody's time. I'm sure I'm not alone.
The only reason the lawyer took the case was that he was hoping to strike gold, and was a crap enough lawyer that only people who were turned away from better lawyers (because they had no case) came to see him.
Having to pay for the doctor's lawyer sure would have deterred this guy.
- nradov 7y agoThe judge can order that in egregious cases. It's not an appropriate role for juries; there are often aspects of the case that the jury doesn't see so they don't have the full picture.
- mr__y 7y ago>reason the lawyer took the case was that he was hoping to strike gold, I'm pretty sure that this works pretty much like spam or nigerian prince scams. If the lawyer works on tens or hundreds of such cases some % of those cases could be won and some % will settle to avoid legal costs. Total income might be high enough to justify unpaid work on other cases. I'm pretty sure that you could even partially automate a lot of things (or at least use some templates) for multiple similar cases thereby reducing the amount of unpaid work.
- papln 7y ago> "ambulance chaser" is a colloquial term for a reason. What's the reason, and does that reason contravene legal/judicial ethics? I am suspicious of slang terms like "ambulance chaser" and "jaywalking" that tend to bias the listener in favor of well-funded corporate interests over individual citizens.