On a related tangent, since the subject of scams came up, I have recently found a very effective way of dealing with the charity spam calls that we get at the house which are not covered by the "do-not-call list".
I tell them i am interested in their cause and ask them to send me something in the mail. Nine times out of 10 they absolutely will not do it and I suspect it is because of the case that can be made against them for mail fraud. When they say they won't send me anything in the mail I tell them it will save them time and money to not call me again becaue I absolutely will not give out personal information on the phone. I never hear from those again. For those that take me up on it I give them my work address and it gets toosed in the recycler with all the other junk we recieve at work.
{Back to your regularly scheduled topic}
I thought the post was about how to pick off an attorney.
biggest caliber you can handle. worst thing you can do is wound us...that just makes us mad. 
billy3esq wrote:
You apparently didn't pay attention to the (non-legal) advice you've already gotten from a lawyer. Ask a lawyer you know (preferably one you have reason to believe is reasonably competent because he's gotten you or someone you know a good result) whom he would use. If he's got two functioning brain cells to rub together, he's going to understand what you need and point you in the appropriate direction.
Case in point: I'm something of a "white-shoe" lawyer. When someone asks me for a referral for a slip and fall, I don't send them to my downtown firm, politically connected buddies. I send them to the guy I went to law school with who does nothing but personal injuries and is generally the type of guy Jensenman and Dr. Hess (among others) bitch about. While he's not in the same stratum of the legal profession I occupy (one can debate whether he's in a higher or lower stratum), he's exactly who I would use if I needed a PI guy.
+1.
CANOE. Dammit, what is the deal?
It's the change in weather, everyone's hitting the water
