[TheForge] Teaching blacksmithing and insurance

Sun Dec 7 23:54:01 2003

On the left coast, lawyers couldn't collect more than 1/3 in contingency 
fees, last I heard. 10% sounds about right , however.
But the big problem is that the burden of a lawyer is proportionately 
greater, the less money one has.
Equal justice for all be damned!
If lawyers were paid according to the client's income, and required to 
take on  clients on the basis of legal merit alone.......
Why then....
They'd find a way around it...............sigh......

Now, to get us back on topic, or closer anyway.............
Blacksmithing content....experiment of sorts. Been messing around with 
hollow body steel forms made ala Elizabeth Brim, but inflated cold, 
annealed, with 130 PSI of water pressure instead of  hot.  I'd hoped 
that  it would be possible to heat indented areas with a rosebud while 
under pressure and pop out the dents.
It didn't work very well.
I'm making note of this to make the point that many experiments fail.
If you don't risk failure, you  don't have much chance of doing 
something new.

PF

Larry and Pat Brown wrote:

> Terry
>
> The worse part is we are the raw meat feeding the lions. At a NY comp 
> hearing they all talk in acronyms that leave you having no idea what 
> is going on and when you try to get your lawyer to explain (If it was 
> your lawyer who showed up for you) you find out that you have to go 
> back again. You own lawyer doesn't want to let you know what is 
> happening as the more he goes to hearings the more he gets out of your 
> allowed settlement.
>
> The system was a nice concept but the lawyers who are in politics have 
> bent and pared the rules for the WC attorneys so it is now a cash 
> machine for the law firms and a trickle for the injured. The scammers 
> are the ones who get the money because the and their lawyers know how 
> to play the game and the people who actually get hurt working seem to 
> get s**t
>
> Larry Brown
> (Because of carpal tunnel my left hand types random letters and needs 
> to be watched to make sure it doesn't misbehave, but I hear that G 
> Bush feels that this couldn't possibly be a work related injury and 
> wants to end people being able to claim the disability)
>
>
>
>> the legal system is all a game one big game played by the lawyers,
>> judges, and the politicans.
>>
>>
>> terry l. ridder ><>
>
>
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