Calscuf + Wopphil

[AngelsLongBall]

19 minutes ago, Adam said:

Anyway, it was pretty remarkable that we never offered them $1 and got them to come down from $560K to $40K. They're finally admitting their case is crap.

I’m fascinated to know the obscure details of what you do, and what they claimed. 
 

We got sued by a temp worker who claimed rest and meal period violations, amongst other things. EPLI firm basically says most of these are cash grabs by predatory attorneys. No, not you @calscuf

[Adam]

10 minutes ago, AngelsLongBall said:

I’m fascinated to know the obscure details of what you do, and what they claimed. 
 

We got sued by a temp worker who claimed rest and meal period violations, amongst other things. EPLI firm basically says most of these are cash grabs by predatory attorneys. No, not you @calscuf

Oh man it would take so long to explain everything. I'm usually getting sued by gig workers and they are 100% cash grabs. Outside of CA I can typically settle those super quickly for small amounts of money. $1000 - $2500. Inside CA is much tougher. The laws are written for them to get something no matter what. But I've got a real good legal team. 

In this case we are being sued by a former client of ours. This company operated in Florida and in a few other States. They ran a third party restaurant delivery app company similar to Grubhub or Doordash. They sold their business to a company in MN for stock. That company sold to a company called Waitr for a bunch of cash so these guys got paid. Anyway, after their sale was closed and publicized a driver sued them for misclassification - claiming he should have been a W2 and not a 1099. They were sued by this firm https://www.llrlaw.com/ which has brought the biggest cases against Uber, Et al. They ultimately settled for a half million or something in their class action(s). They then sued us for their settlement amount and legal fees saying we had an obligation to defend them.  We didn't. Nothing in the evidence supports in any way that we defend our clients in law suits and or contribute in any way. We weren't a defendant in the case. I was deposed by the plaintiffs and we were still never named as a defendant. 

Their claim is that our CEO verbally told them we would defend them. He wouldn't ever do that. In any case, that's their case. Despite the fact that our contracts, marketing materials and hundreds of email correspondences show that we don't do that, they're stating they were verbally told we would. There's case law that states that plaintiffs cannot rely on verbal statements. 

 

[Blarg]

The only case where your word is your bond is when making deals with the Gambino family. And that is spoken in a undisclosed location after everyone is checked for wires.

[gotbeer]

so Adam will settle for $10k for a baseless claim.  Hmm.  Remember that time at the AW.com softball game, you touched me.  Pay up!

[Blarg]

He charges for that.

[Adam]

25 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

so Adam will settle for $10k for a baseless claim.  Hmm.  Remember that time at the AW.com softball game, you touched me.  Pay up!

Only 5% of that $10K is my money. You want $500? I'll give you Tank's old irons.

[wopphil]

2 hours ago, Adam said:

Dude. It's my attorney. He's great. He's in Florida and works for @wopphil's firm. Plus, these stupid fucks are lying and keep changing their story and 100% of the evidence through discovery and the depositions supports our position. They hired a bad attorney. We're going Rule 11 him next week if his clients don't walk away.

Love it dude, great to hear. Brett is the man. Glad this might be about to end on good terms. 

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, Adam said:

Only 5% of that $10K is my money. You want $500? I'll give you Tank's old irons.

Only if @Lou gets the $25 he's owed.

[Adam]

2 hours ago, calscuf said:

I’d like to learn more about bogus lawsuits that can net an easy $10K.  

Split amongst 4 plaintiffs 

[wopphil]

14 minutes ago, Adam said:

Split amongst 4 plaintiffs 

And reduced by the costs and attorneys’ fees they have to pay on it. 

[Blarg]

18 minutes ago, calscuf said:

 

What are you guys smoking? Obviously I only care about the attorneys fees.

[Jay]

So @calscufand @wopphilare actual attorneys? I always thought that was one of those inside AW jokes, like "3 porches" or "Laura Diaz"

[gotbeer]

23 minutes ago, Jay said:

So @calscufand @wopphilare actual attorneys? I always thought that was one of those inside AW jokes, like "3 porches" or "Laura Diaz"

the AW Joke is that one is an ambulance chaser.  And it's not wopphil.

[T.G.]

When I read the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be a wedding announcement.

[UndertheHalo]

Very sad that they were trying to shakedown @Adam

[Adam]

Bitch

 

[wopphil]

12 hours ago, Adam said:

Bitch

 

That’s excellent. He wants out. Don’t pay him shit. 

[wopphil]

12 hours ago, gotbeer said:

the AW Joke is that one is an ambulance chaser.  And it's not wopphil.

Yeah but one spends 90 percent of his time getting to vacation and travel, and it’s unfortunately also not wopphil. 

[AngelsLongBall]

11 hours ago, wopphil said:

That’s excellent. He wants out. Don’t pay him shit. 

Who’s who?
 

Who’s Freda?
She’s my secretary.
And who are you?
I’m Freda’s boss

[Adam]

Don't fuck with me.

Brett,

 

We are done. Please send me a draft. Thank you.  Have a nice weekend.

 

Steve

 

[gotbeer]

@Adam  So how much in attorney fees have you sunk into this case?

[Adam]

7 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

@Adam  So how much in attorney fees have you sunk into this case?

$80K. But I'm fine with that. I only went over budget in November. I have a $20K monthly legal budget that I am free to spend. 

[Blarg]

That was @Spirit's per diem 5 years ago. 

[Lou]

34 minutes ago, Adam said:

$80K. But I'm fine with that. I only went over budget in November. I have a $20K monthly legal budget that I am free to spend. 

Don't break the speed limit.

 

That'll be $19,980.

[gotbeer]

36 minutes ago, Adam said:

$80K. But I'm fine with that. I only went over budget in November. I have a $20K monthly legal budget that I am free to spend. 

Hear that @calscuf ?