Taken Advantage of...

Talk about being taken advantage of by someone you thought you could trust. Some lawyers you can't trust and some like Simmons, Jannace and Stagg - you can. At least their are some honest people out there!!

B prepared for a terrible unbelievable story...The “September 11th Victims Compensation Fund” was made for people who had lost their loved ones in that tragedy. This fund is suppose to be a system that compensates families and contingency fees by attorneys were disfavored. Simmons, Jannace & Stagg were asked by a widow to represent her because an attorney she had had for the Victims Compensation Fund charged her $2,000,000 for a contingency fee!! What a jerk!! The jerk filed a suit in a federal court stating a declaratory judgement that entitled him to that fee. And Simmons, Jannace and Stagg argued to dismiss the federal action. They argued that the Victims Compensation Fund didn’t give the federal jurisdiction for any action by any attorney seeding to protect HIS fee. They also noted that there was no reported case such as an exorbitant fee for representation before this Victims Compensation Fund. The size of the fee is obviously ridiculous - trying to take someone elses money for their lost one - absolutely sick! The federal court agreed thank goodness. This is the first federal court decision with attorneys’ fee disputes that have occured out of the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund that really should be litigated in the state courts.