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Usurious loans to plaintiffs: An ugly “business”
Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free. — Horace, Epodes Once again the New York Times provides a thought-provoking … Continue reading
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Tagged borrowing money before settlement, Financial advances to plaintiffs, Law and government agencies, lawyers ethics, legal contingency cases, loans for lawsuits, loansharks, personal injury lawsuits, plaintiff loans, usurious rates of interest, usury, what "contingency" means
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Why sue? Because a hospital overradiates your brain.
From the New York Times: W. Virginia Hospital Overradiated Brain Scan Patients, Records Show – NYTimes.com.
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Retainers and legal fees: Costs and expenses from the lawyer’s POV
The financial accounts he kept in these early years of manhood reveal a meticulous man much given to recording every detail of his expenditures. If, when traveling on legal business, he had his clothes washed and paid a shilling to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amicus computer program, lawyers' time slips, legal contingency cases, legal costs and expenses, personal injury lawsuits, what "contingency" means
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