{"id":858,"date":"2005-01-31T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/31\/attorneys_fees\/"},"modified":"2005-01-31T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T11:30:00","slug":"attorneys_fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/31\/attorneys_fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/dp-57433sy0jan30,0,4099537.story \">an interesting piece<\/a> about a <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?051+sum+SB912 \">bill<\/a> Sen. Tommy Norment (R-James City County) is proposing.  I\u2019m usually against \u201ctort reform\u201d because it\u2019s really an attempt by the GOP to protect businesses from their own fraud and willful indifference and choke off donations to the Democratic Party.  But if there are cases where the plaintiff gets $1,000 and the attorney gets $30,000, there\u2019s something wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A proposed compromise on attorney&#8217;s fees, according to the trial lawyers&#8217; Pearson, is that when the two parties agree to settle a case and the attorneys can&#8217;t agree on fees, the parties can go ahead and settle while the disagreement over fees goes to court. That way, the case is closed for the two clients and the meter stops running.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an interesting piece about a bill Sen. Tommy Norment (R-James City County) is proposing. I\u2019m usually against \u201ctort reform\u201d because it\u2019s really an attempt by the GOP to protect businesses from their own fraud and willful indifference and choke off donations to the Democratic Party. But if there are cases where the plaintiff gets&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/31\/attorneys_fees\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}