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April 14, 2009

Offered Without Further Comment

...BINGLEY and Gunslinger...

Harvey Strother was a multimillionaire with a small empire of Georgia car dealerships, but when his mistress wheeled him into his lawyer's office to change his will one last time, he was a wine-soaked shell of his former self.


...As Strother aged, his alcoholism worsened. A friend testified that when he saw Strother in December 2003 — shortly after he made the final changes to his will — he was drunk, wearing a diaper...
...and filling a 16-ounce plastic cup from a box of wine.

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 14, 2009 07:42 AM

Comments

Yep. The $500 fee for making the amendment to the will is not worth the tens of thousands of dollars for practicing malpractice.

If the witnesses were not in the room, there's one big piece of malpractice. If the man was a drunk and had a wife and family and was wheeled in by his mistress, that law firm is just asking, begging for problems.

This is a classic example of what they preach to us at law school practically everyday. Yes, the man might be competent, he may be a fool, he may be spending his own money the way he chooses, but it's not worth it to help him write that amendment without being extremely cautious. Especially when that much money is involved.

That law firm asked for trouble and they're getting it.

Posted by: Skyler at April 14, 2009 08:13 AM

...who used sex and alcohol to get her way.

Works every time.

The image of a drunk guy getting wheeled into his lawyer's office by his mistress to change his will in her favor sounds almost like a tv sitcom skit, doesn't it?

I will, of course, pointedly ignore the gratuitous slander directed at both myself and Guns by that noted serial slanderer, Ms. Sister.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 14, 2009 08:42 AM

You slanderous cur! Or should I say "CUP"...?

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 14, 2009 08:52 AM

Well, I for one aren't anywhere near the diaper stage.

Posted by: Gunslinger at April 14, 2009 05:52 PM

I believe the point of the article is: if you drink box wine, you'll NEED one.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 15, 2009 09:00 AM