When I was a kid, Mr. Winn, my 5th grade teacher would say… “Say it. Don’t spray it!” We all knew what he meant. I just put up about 25 pleadings from the Mortgages Limited fiasco.  The Sierra club will go nuts on how many trees we will kill in this case. Note, the lawyers on both sides write pretty good. The Defendants have 38 lawyers. No doubt another 20 will join. The Plaintiff’s have 1.

We are all trying to make a complex matter understandable. At the Scottsdale law firm of William A. Miller we try hard to write clear. Some lawyers pull this off. Others do not. We also handle, Breach of contract, Non-compete agreements, Non-disclosure agreements, Employee theft and embezzlement, Insurance purchases and enforcement of policy coverage, Negotiation and/or enforcement of commercial leases, Negligence and gross negligence resulting in losses, Intentional acts causing a company to suffer damages, Tortious interference with contractual relationships, Unjust enrichment, Real Estate fraud, Consumer fraud, Conversion/Theft, Intentional and/or negligent misrepresentation, Business torts and Real estate title & escrow.

Arizona Trial & Business Law

William A. Miller, Esq.

William A. Miller, PLLC

8170 North 86th Place, Suite 208
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258

A long winded brief filed in the Supreme Court lost its audience in the the very first sentence of the brief:

The issue presented in this case — which arises under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, 5 U.S.C. § 7101, et seq. (“Federal Labor Statute”) — is whether the most basic policies of that Act should play any role in a major area of its administration, viz., in determining whether a union acting as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of federal sector employees — having been selected by those employees through the secret ballot electoral processes provided by federal law — is entitled to the disclosure of personnel records of bargaining unit employees when such disclosure is “necessary for the full and proper” performance of that representative’s collective bargaining functions.

The writer of that sentence asked way too much. Must be they are paid by the word. By contrast, this lawyer got it right:

There is an old riddle: Which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks? While many find the question deceptive at first, the correct answer, that a ton is a ton regardless of what is being weighed, becomes irrefutably clear once explained. But in enacting and now defending the NR Exemption, the State has managed to get the answer wrong — a ton of soybeans or chicken feed is treated as though it weighs less than a ton of baked beans or dog food.

The reader is sure to understand the point.

If you need help with any legal matters feel free to call Scottsdale, Arizona  trial lawyer Bill Miller at 602-319-6899. We take cases involving:

Breach of contract, Non-compete agreements, Non-disclosure agreements, Employee theft and embezzlement, Insurance purchases and enforcement of policy coverage, Negotiation and/or enforcement of commercial leases, Negligence and gross negligence resulting in losses, Intentional acts causing a company to suffer damages, Tortious interference with contractual relationships, Unjust enrichment, Real Estate fraud, Consumer fraud, Conversion/Theft, Intentional and/or negligent misrepresentation, Business torts and Real estate title & escrow.

William A. Miller, PLLC, is an Arizona law firm dedicated to this simple philosophy: In every case we handle, we strive to be the best! To demand of ourselves the highest standard of diligence and follow through. To turn over every stone. To return client calls immediately and not hide behind “lawyer speak” when confronted with tough issues. Our mandate is to treat our clients with the highest level of respect, integrity and empathy – to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

For a long time conservative like me, this is a tough issue to blog on. I lean left on the Gulf oil spill mess. So, call me a flaming liberal; no pun intended.

For over a month or two, Obama watched the oil spill spread over the Gulf of Mexico with the same powerless shock as other Americans. Regarding this, the right wing pundits got a big time pay back for Bush slander on Katrina. Yep, Bush should have stopped the hurricane & Obama could plug the leak.

Lampooned by his contingency & ‘my people’ for his impotence, Obama was spurred into action. He attacked the only available party—BP—and, to underline the stress with which he takes this problem, he gave his first Oval Office address on the subject. Lawsuits! That is what the professional/motivational speaker/professor said. Where is “mission-accomplished-bush” when you need him!

Obama’s address got poor reviews; his attack on BP better ones. Last week the firm bowed to pressure, and announced that it was, in effect, handing over $20 billion to the government to pay for compensation and clean-up, as well as cancelling the payment of any dividends this year and setting up a fund—of a mere $100m—to compensate unemployed oil workers.

This may do Obama some good. Whether it will benefit our friends in the Gulf is more doubtful. Businessmen are already blue, shot-down by the economy and nervous of their president’s attitude towards free markets.

I lean very left on this one. Where are those ‘onerous-left-wing-regulations” when you need them? Anyone who says the ‘free market’ can solve this mess needs history lessons.

Go get ‘em Obama! Sue everyone later, but fix the problem first.

May God richly bless our friends in the Gulf as this drags on.

Make sure to call Bill Miller @ 480-948-3095, a 22 year Arizona litigation and trial lawyer with any questions about Arizona law or Maricopa County courts.

Arizona Trial & Business Law

William A. Miller, Esq.

William A. Miller, PLLC

8170 North 86th Place, Suite 208
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258

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