Wish me luck...
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The Almighty
Good luck stealing 40% from your clients 
Good luck stealing 40% from your clients
Not stealing, earning! Why do conservatives have such a hard time with an attorney earning money?
So, are you suing the guy who was driving or the company whose policy he had broken?
Both, at least in Florida... The employer of a negligant individual is responsable for the actions of the employee if he was acting in the corse and scope of his employment.
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The Almighty
Lawyers are one of the only professions to "police" themselves. Bar association... lawyers. Judges.... lawyers. Politicians...a whole lot of lawyers. If we tried to set up the scam you have... charging 40% of earnings, taking nothing if we lose... how long do you think it would take for an attorney to sue the crap out of the financial industry?
You dont belive in the free market?
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Of course.... lawyers made sure to ensure that the companies would be liable.... after all they are the ones with the insurance... and we all know that those evil insurance companies are so rich that we can award huge claims and it won't effect the rest of us at all... nope...not one bit... except for the higher costs of insurance that gets passed on to us through higher costs of goods sold.
Tell me... how dumb was your client to be standing in front of the fork lift? Fork lifts are neither silent, fast nor hard to miss. Was he sleeping on the job and decided to take a nap in front of a forklift?
1) If the market allowed it, you could charge that much but "financial advisers" are a dime a dozen and thus the law of supply and demand does not allow you to keep 40%.
2) I would LOVE to be in a contengency agreement with my financial advisor as then I would know that making me money was truely both of our's financial interests.
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The Almighty
I do believe in it.... but YOUR industry, via idiots like Spitzer, seem to have a problem with it when it occurs outside of your industry. Yet, are complete hypocrits when it comes to your fees. Again, do you think the financial industry could do the same without being sued by some crackpot liar (I mean lawyer)???
If an employer were not responsable for the actions of an employee acting in the course and scope of his/her employment you would have employers all over the place having employees do unreasonably dangerous things and then the employer saying.. "not my fault"!
The beeper on this forklift was either disabled or broken.
The Client was bent over looking at an item on display when the forklift hit him from behind.
Imagine the medical costs of caring for these injured people the government would put out if those responsable for injuring them were not required to pay!
I dont see how you could sue someone in the financial industry for doing that as long as it was part of the contract the customer signed and as long as such arraingements are legal.
Nope, everything Ive said is a part of the public record. Now, if I were to be talking about something that was not already public that would violate attorney client privledge.
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The Almighty
I would be willing to bet there are more lawyers in this country than financial advisors.
Also, the law of supply and demand has little to do with what we can charge. It has far more to do with lawyers and politicians dictating to our industry what they think is fair for our industry to charge. We are far more regulated than the law profession. So to equate the two is ridiculous... especially when your industry polices itself.