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["Mark E. Deardorff" <MarkD(--nospam--at)DandDEng.com>]

I agree, Ron. The Turner case is meaningless.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron O. Hamburger [mailto:ROH(--nospam--at)eqe.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 8:01 AM
> To: seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org
> Subject: Re: Ed Turner Case
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Although I am pleased that Mr. Turner was successful, I don't 
> think his victory
> over an incompetent lawyer has quite the impact implied in 
> the previous posts.
> It seems to me that to obtain a finding of incompetence 
> against his attorney, he
> would have had to prove that his case "could have been won" 
> not "would have been
> won".
> 
> Although he was financially better served by suing his 
> attorney, and also
> obtained some satisfaction, it would have been better if he 
> had retained another
> attorney and appealed the findings of the original trial in 
> which the City was
> exonerated of wrong doing.


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