By: John Day

The judge just thought it was too much. I hear that crap, too – “its too much.” That being said, you will enjoy this: We had a GAL complain that our firm unfairly charged a minor mileage expenses to handle a case in Memphis (200 miles away) and that those expenses (and fedex charges for sending documents to the Court) would not have been incurred if the minor hired a Memphis lawyer. We decided not to fight it – it was a few hundred bucks – but pointed out in a court filing and at the court approval hearing that we took depositions, disclosed experts and took medical proof, etc and resolved the case in 18 months or so. We noted that the other victims of the food poison episode involved in the case – the ones who hired Memphis lawyers – hadn’t even begun the deposition process and were not anywhere near to getting their cases resolved. The judge gave us our expenses despite the fact that we were willing to eat them. :)