http://overlawyered.com/2008/03/milberg-expert-torkelsen-pleads-guilty-to-perjury/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:26:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2008/03/milberg-expert-torkelsen-pleads-guilty-to-perjury/comment-page-1/#comment-11031 C Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:26:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5937#comment-11031 As a lawyer I find this both cause for joy and dispair. Joy in that a legal cancer is finally being removed. Dispair over complicity by and the silence from the ABA - the main bar association for lawyers has been a major supporter of scum like this firm and the resulting low regard the public holds of the legal profession. I am constantly frustrated that I must pay dues to an organization which never polls its members before taking outrageous positions on matters of legal importance. Why hasn't the ABA debated the wisdom of collaboration by the trial bar and various State attorney generals? Talk about getting whipsawed - it's almost like dealing with organized crime since the accused has a gun pointed at their heads before the trial is even underway and then faces a full frontal assault by all the power a state can muster. I look forward to the day I can resign from this tawdry and hypocritical orgainzation - that has a hamerlock on my license to make a living. As a lawyer I find this both cause for joy and dispair. Joy in that a legal cancer is finally being removed. Dispair over complicity by and the silence from the ABA – the main bar association for lawyers has been a major supporter of scum like this firm and the resulting low regard the public holds of the legal profession. I am constantly frustrated that I must pay dues to an organization which never polls its members before taking outrageous positions on matters of legal importance. Why hasn’t the ABA debated the wisdom of collaboration by the trial bar and various State attorney generals? Talk about getting whipsawed – it’s almost like dealing with organized crime since the accused has a gun pointed at their heads before the trial is even underway and then faces a full frontal assault by all the power a state can muster. I look forward to the day I can resign from this tawdry and hypocritical orgainzation – that has a hamerlock on my license to make a living.

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