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Nov. 13, 2008

Is Quitting for Winners? Some Lawyers Seem to Think So

Why do we assume that lawyers dislike law so much that if any one of the majority of us could just get a score big enough, we should seriously think of quitting, writes Nora Quinn. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Nora Quinn

When a plaintiffs' lawyer gets a really good judgment, you know, eight or nine figures, his or her friends may start asking, "So, are you going to quit? Are you going to close your practice?" This does not apply to people like Mike Bidart, or Tom Girardi, Browne Green, Dan Stormer, Gloria Alred, or Chris Angelo. You know they are not going to quit. No, I'm talking about the person you actually know. The one you went to l...

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