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My trials and travails with litigious former employee.

Wow just jumped on and read all of this. My complete sympathies went out to you as I was reading and I have to say I cracked a big old smile when I read the results. Congratulations, you didn't deserve that and I'm glad The Practice helped you win it! ;) Get back to enjoying life and trying to worry about extraneous stuff like that!
 
ratsncorns said:
Wonderful news, Eric!! What a burden that is now free from your shoulders :)
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Thank you Angela. Yes a burden lifted. I little fog I've been walking around in for several months, now lifted.

Pruddock said:
Wow just jumped on and read all of this. My complete sympathies went out to you as I was reading and I have to say I cracked a big old smile when I read the results. Congratulations, you didn't deserve that and I'm glad The Practice helped you win it! ;) Get back to enjoying life and trying to worry about extraneous stuff like that!
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Thanks, Payton, if I may call you that. Extracting the detailed historical truth, heaping together what is relevant, and keeping the conversation steered toward the pertinent details....is oddly enough....a major part of my day to day job. Although this was definitely an unwanted exercise in the extreme.
 
lucillle said:
I was speaking of perhaps having immediate legal/business advice available to perhaps nip any future events like this in the bud.
Could you have done anything different in this case? Perhaps not, as this guy seems to have had a track record for hassling others in ways that were just inside the law.
While there are plenty of stories of justice achieved, the law and its processes are far from perfect, and there are too many stories of the system being used to inflict miseries.
You are just too nice a guy to have to suffer like this ever again.
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Thank you Lucillle, from the bottom of my heart.
And excellent advice, in spite of my job as a Substance Abuse Counselor, and Director of a large Halfway House...and all the stories and experiences...I tend to remain rather naive and idealistic in some matters of life.

Trusting that 'someone' would see the frivolousness and absurdity of all this, back in the beginning...was naive.
So by 2006 I had secured an excellent lawyer (better have been for $200/hour), he stayed with me through 2007, when I thought things were settled and forgotten. He made me feel very safe. But he is now sick with complications of age and diabetes and no longer practices. And I'll be doggoned, the phone book is FULL of 'personal injury lawyers' here in Baton Rouge (kind of describes the local atmosphere, hunh?) and finding a wise and willing small claims civil attorney was looking bleak after searching all of June and July. A referral/consultation firm seemed to be encouraging me that I didn't/wouldn't need a lawyer. Just tell this particular judge the story as I had told them. And I talked to many clerks and top Administration at the court house who seemed to tell me (in between the lines) that this man was notorious at the courthouse. But even at $200/hour, a lawyer had made me feel not quite so alone.
I guess what I need to do is some schmoozing and find me a lawyer friend who I can have on stand by. One never knows what can come up in my field, or dealing with this population in general.
 
vetusvates said:
Thanks, Payton, if I may call you that. Extracting the detailed historical truth, heaping together what is relevant, and keeping the conversation steered toward the pertinent details....is oddly enough....a major part of my day to day job. Although this was definitely an unwanted exercise in the extreme.
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Feel free to call me whatever you want :)
 
lucillle said:
You can always run something by me, and I'll try to help point you in the right direction.
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Thank you. I must spread the rep around before giving it to lucillle again......etc.

We have been waiting for you....we've been running avatars by your non-presence all day. LOL.
 
What a relief at last! I'm happy this turned out well, Eric. This is the kind of carp that runs our legal system into the ground.
 
lucillle said:
My days are spent travelling for the state on behalf of ill and handicapped children. I am licensed as an attorney but I do what I love to do best, help kids and families.
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Now that is interesting. So we both work in rather humanitarian jobs in which gratification has its irregular ups and downs.

That also explains some of your earlier remarks on my 4-year trials and tribulations with the nutjob-wannabe-lawyer freak.
 
You are both the kind of people that make the world continue to be worth living in, even as much of it goes to hell in a handbasket. Everytime I watch too much TV or read the paper, I get very sad. People like you bring me out of my funk and give me at least a little hope for the world. It's not the "guvmint" that will save the people who need that little extra bit of help...it's the people on the ground that bother to care and make a difference.
 
You know Eric, if you ever find yourself in this predicament again, you can come to me. I may not have a fancy smanshy degree or even a basic understanding of the law, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! :sidestep:

Wayne
 
medusacoils said:
You know Eric, if you ever find yourself in this predicament again, you can come to me. I may not have a fancy smanshy degree or even a basic understanding of the law, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! :sidestep:

Wayne
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Can you "do a job" for me, and leave no evidence and no body...???
Like in the Sopranos?
 
paigehi said:
You are both the kind of people that make the world continue to be worth living in, even as much of it goes to hell in a handbasket. Everytime I watch too much TV or read the paper, I get very sad. People like you bring me out of my funk and give me at least a little hope for the world. It's not the "guvmint" that will save the people who need that little extra bit of help...it's the people on the ground that bother to care and make a difference.
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Actually, it is the teachers such as yourself who give us our future, and I have immense respect for good ones.

But everyone who gives of themselves so that others may have better lives is worthy of respect.
Cafeteria workers who give the kids or elders a smile along with their meal, nurses, construction guys who build hospitals and playgrounds, and of course with much importance, good parents.

There's so much good in the world, if you look at the world and not so much the front page of the paper. I'm sure folks may differ and that's fine, but I personally think that most people are basicly good.
 
vetusvates said:
Now that is interesting. So we both work in rather humanitarian jobs in which gratification has its irregular ups and downs.
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I think the ups-n-downs part might be true everywhere. Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.....:p
 
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