Reply #5: Lawyers like $$$

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I can tell you for a fact that a lawyer will back out of a case to get the bigger, guaranteed money.

I had a law suit. Straight up, no need to lie about anything, collectively 3 months of hospitalizations and 3 back surgeries following an incident. My case first went to arbitration. I won - a large sum of money, though not as much as was expected with a win in the courtroom. Unwilling to pay the money, the corporation I was suing decided to go to trial. Let me add, during arbitration, every single witness from their side lied. Right down to my weight, age, and hair color.

9:00 pm, the night before trial was to begin, my attorney called me to tell me I couldn't win the case - that HE believed their witnesses. I could not believe what I was hearing. He knew I was telling the truth. He knew their witnesses were lying. It was proven during arbitration. We had talked about how good the case was. So what made him suddenly, out of the blue, decide to say he believed their witnesses?

It was a few years later I learned, from their head legal secretary (who no longer worked for them) that it was the company's MO to pay their witnesses. That more than a dozen people had been hurt in the same way as I, and that all had lost their cases. My attorney got paid off by them. It saved them a ton of money, not to mention bad publicity had I won in court. Fact.