{"id":909,"date":"2011-01-24T12:28:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=909"},"modified":"2011-06-09T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:19:40","slug":"sidebarlawsuit-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Who should sue: Ugly banks and a beautiful pro bono lawyer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;Your duty is to represent your client, not to carry the torch for the entire Western World&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; Hon. Duane A. Hart<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Joe Nocera&#8217;s January 23, 2011 <em>New York Times<\/em> column, Talking Business &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/22\/business\/economy\/22nocera.html?ref=joenocera\" target=\"_self\">Bank of America Is Shamed Into Modifying a Mortgage &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>&#8212; he covers a whole bunch of categories I&#8217;ve been writing about as he relates the outcome of one of those lawsuits you&#8217;ll be cheering for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the media\u00a0\u2014 in his case, a terrific reporter\u00a0\u2014 can affect a lawsuit by telling its story.<\/li>\n<li>Righteous lawsuits (an individual v. Big Business) that turn out well.<\/li>\n<li>Righteous lawsuits entwined with politics that turn out well.<\/li>\n<li>How a passionate lawyer works.<\/li>\n<li>How a passionate <em>public interest lawyer<\/em> works.<\/li>\n<li>How reading newspaper accounts of lawsuits can give you a list of great lawyers. This one, Elizabeth Lynch, can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfy.org\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.mfy.org<\/a>, one of New York&#8217;s excellent Legal Aid groups.<\/li>\n<li>The court and the Court\u00a0\u2014 the power of a judge.<\/li>\n<li>The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. (Naah, I just threw that in because Nocera starts his column with it and I figure by noting it here I&#8217;m cheerfully participating in the uncertainty. For a much more profound participation, see Michael Frayn&#8217;s astonishing play, <em>Copenhagen, <\/em>and\/or read Gino Segre&#8217;s engrossing and entertaining, <em>Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics<\/em> [hardcover Viking, paperback Penguin] in which Segre almost managed to teach me quantum physics while introducing me to the wonderful and weird characters who were the geniuses of that era in physics.)<\/li>\n<li>(How did I get off on that tangent?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Nocera of the New York Times tells the story of a really sympathetic lawsuit &#8212; Bank of American hiss boo tries to foreclose on a home in Queens without the homeowner&#8217;s knowledge &#8212; and by writing about it, affects it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=909\">Continue reading <span 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