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AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
2. I had this done to me and still makes me mad.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 06:04 PM
Feb 2015

Basically it was a Corporate council for Chicago, spent the entire trial violating court orders on motuon in limine, then called my black client lazy, thought his crippling back injury like winning the lottery and called a lawsuit a ghetto lottery ticket. I lost the trial since I drew a bad venire and could only seat 3 black jurors.

Reversed on appeal, and Eddie Burke signed off on a low 7 figure settlement thereafter.

The lawyer was hyperconnected (his brother was a head of a city department.) Got appointed to the bench shortly thereafter, then won an uncontested appellate court election . When he retires in a few years at 55 he will have, by my estimation a 250k pension.

Can you tell I'm still hot?

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