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To: Li Cai who wrote (4388)	12/19/1997 4:24:00 PM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

li cai did you sold your orcl buy efii ? vg

To: Li Cai who wrote (4388)	12/19/1997 6:42:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 74651

When you hire a lawyer, you hire all his assistants as well. There seem to be a lot of posts from people who must have little or not corporate legal experience, or experience with the government. Here's a few things to keep in mind: 1) Yes, whomever hires the better law firm has an advantage. But whomever has the better case has an advantage as well. 2) 2 lawyers may be better than 1 lawyer. But 300 lawyers is not necessarily better than 100 lawyers. The court doesn't take a head count of who has the most lawyers. It looks at the evidence, considers motions, etc.. the law of diminishing returns applies here. 3) The government can mess you up big time. They can mess anybody up big time. I've seen it happen. 4) Don't be so cynical about judges. Some of them are crappy, but some of them are very good. And most of them get paid a lot less than what they could easily make if they left their judgeships and became corporate lawyers. They're in this job for more reasons than just money. 5) Don't be so cynical about the law and rich people. Yes, OJ got off, but Leona Helmsley (who had much more money) went to prison. So did Jim Bakker. So did Dan Rostenkowski. So did Michael Milliken. And those were crimial suits, in which it's much harder to get a conviction. We're talking civil suits here, where rich and famous people and rich corporations get nailed all the time.