Originally Posted by daswig

Was Edwards a competent trial attorney? If he pulled in 100 million dollars in his relatively short career, he was a hell of an attorney. That indicates that he's not a total fool. And only a total fool would argue that kind of PI case in a bench trial. Additionally, there is zip, zero, NADA chance that he would have gotten the kinds of judgements required to amass 100 MILLION dollars in contingency fees from judges. It's a simple impossibility, unless his clients were something on the order of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki going after the US government in a class action lawsuit, and I'd have heard about something like that. From what has been reported in the media (100 million in fees, PI trial attorney, working med-mal cases) he WAS trying cases in front of juries, he WAS getting large verdicts, they WERE outside of normal guidelines for that kind of injury, and it COULD NOT HELP but affect insurance premiums (we're talking a minimum of 1/5 of a BILLION dollars here). These are not assumptions, any more than it's an assumption that when I drop my shoe, it's going to fall to the ground.