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30 Jul, 2007 11:33 am by Peter Lattman
Willie Gary. Plaintiffs' lawyer extraordinaire. Owner of a Boeing 737 named "Wings of Justice II." A lawyer Web site unrivaled among his peers. A member of the Law Blog ... Rolex and his $10,000 Brioni suits? His response: "Marketing.'' ''Willie is a master for creating unique situations,'' said Bruce Rogow, a member of the Law Blog Bow Tie Club. "I've practiced with the greatest lawyers in the country, and nobody is like Willie. He has a special instinct for a good case. He has a unique ability to ...
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17 Apr, 2007 11:18 am by Ashby Jones
We posted last week on Willie Gary, the flamboyant Florida plaintiffs lawyer with the planes, the cars, the posh offices and the highly entertaining Web site, and his recent ... cheated, we wouldn't even be talking about attorneys' fees." While "cheated" was Gary's word, Judge Moe did save some choice words for Motorola' ... sequestration issue affected the jury. "There's nothing anywhere in the record that reflects that." Gary told us that lawyers at his firm have logged thousands of hours on the case, ...
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25 Apr, 2007 10:17 am by Ashby Jones
... what he wanted, but he got a hefty chunk - about a quarter of that. We wrote about Willie Gary and his $11,000-per-hour fee request in his trade ... jury. Both sides claimed to be happy with the outcome. ''Certainly, it was a huge rejection of Mr. Gary's case,'' said Faith Gay of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & ... feeling is there isn't a basis in law or fact for the award of sanctions.'' Said Gary: "The $23 million dollars says to Motorola and its lawyers that dishonesty and willful misconduct ...
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10 Apr, 2007 1:16 pm by Ashby Jones
We've posted before on Willie Gary, the Florida plaintiffs attorney with a personal Boeing 737, named "Wings of Justice II," and a you-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it Web site. Well, Gary's back in the news again. He reportedly wants wants Motorola Inc. to pay ... trial transcripts before they testified. "This is outrageous," Paul Alfieri, a spokesman for Motorola. Should the judge rule for Gary, Motorola will appeal, company lawyer Faith Gay said Tuesday before a multiday hearing on the ...
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28 Apr, 2007 10:04 pm by Walter Olson
As David noted the other day, Florida attorney Willie Gary, whose doings are often mentioned on this site, had asked that a court award fees of $11,000 an hour for his work in a trade secrets suit against Motorola. ... 96 million in fees and costs. The judge also passed over a request that Motorola be hit with $100 millions in sanctions and restitution, though Gary might be able to obtain further consideration of that request. (Adrian Sainz, "Motorola ordered to pay $22.9 million", AP/Miami Herald, ...
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9 Nov, 2006 7:37 am by Peter Lattman
Fulton County Daily Report has a juicy story on the matrimonial travails of high-profile trial lawyer Willie Gary, whose annual $336,000 child support payments for his six-year-old twins were slashed last year to $60,000. Court filings pin Gary's estimated net worth at $60 million. But even juicier: Willie Gary's home page, among the best lawyer [...]
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30 Jul, 2008 1:37 pm by Robert J. Ambrogi
Here is a story straight out of the annals of bizarre-but-true. Prominent Florida attorney Willie Gary has released two sex tapes that he says help disprove claims made in a sexual battery suit against him. Gary, whose Web site boasts...
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24 Apr, 2007 11:29 pm
As reported earlier here, the well-known attorney Willie Gary had requested fees of over $100 million as sanctions against Motorola for their alleged violation of a sequestration order that allegedly was the cause of a mistrial. Recently, a Florida judge...
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31 Jul, 2007 3:14 pm
"'Giant Killer' Willie Gary is a titan in legal world": This lengthy article appeared yesterday in The Miami Herald.
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2 Nov, 2007 12:57 pm by Steven Ballard
Sometimes child support can be expensive. Take two recent cases in the news, one involving wealthy Florida lawyer Willie Gary, who pays $28,000 per month for two children in the care of his ex in Georgia, based on income of over a million dollars a month, and the other involving an alleged singer, Britney Spears, who is paying one Kevin Federline $15,000 a month in child support, plus spousal
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15 Jan, 2008 7:30 am
"$28,000 question plays out in public; After a successful career representing others, Willie Gary says he botched his own child support case; It's taken him to state Supreme Court": This article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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22 Jun 8:13 am by Brian Baxter
A heavily publicized sexual harassment suit filed by a former secretary against the prominent plaintiffs lawyer took a hit on Friday when a Florida judge tossed two key counts in the case.
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20 Jan, 2008 8:16 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
... federal jury convicted Gary, Indiana political figures Will Smith, Jr., Roosevelt Powell, and Willie Harris, in September of filing false tax returns over a combined ... he was indicted last year.[2] Powell, an adviser to Gary Mayor Rudy Clay, and Harris, a Gary city attorney, were also convicted in the scheme.[3 ... three months after he was convicted.[5] Authorities asserted that the three arranged for the Gary Historical and Cultural Society to take ownership of the former supermarket, then arranged ...
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30 Jun, 2008 3:17 am by Michael
Gary Farber has a great piece on the (soft) power of music, If it ain't got that swing, which introduced me to Willis Conover. Who's that? Willis Conover is, or at least once was, one of the most world famous Americans for forty years, and yet unknown to all but a few Americans…
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31 Jul, 2008 6:28 pm
... his inventive defense strategy, described by Legal Blog Watch: Prominent Florida attorney Willie Gary has released two sex tapes that he says help disprove claims ... sexual battery suit against him... This week, in a bid to get the case thrown out, Gary's lawyers filed two videos with the court allegedly showing her having consensual ... Michael Pike. As noted by both Legal Blog Watch and the WSJ Law Blog, Gary's website bio brags about his rise from migrant worker to multimillionaire attorney, with ...
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22 Apr, 2007 6:17 pm by Connie
... the client for greater transparency, and provide clients with a fixed fee quotation for the work to be undertaken. Over at the Law Blog at the Wall Street Journal Online, Ashby Jones found out how high-profile attorney Willie Gary arrived at an $11,000 hourly billing rate in a case and shares the story in Willie Gary and His $11,000-An-Hour Fee. This post really should go into the category "I picked the wrong career path" but I can't find a Library of Congress heading ...
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11 Sep 3:17 am by Walter Olson
... high hopes, or so one might speculate from the site's being put up for sale by online auction. [Elefant/Legal Blog Watch; Kowalski/Financial Post; Turkewitz] Earlier here, here, here, etc. Tags: chasing clients Related posts YouTube lawyer ads (3) Willie Gary marketing tactics (2) William Shatner lawyer ads (1) WhoCanISue.com (9) When lawyers' blogs proclaim their expertise (0)
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6 Oct 12:03 pm by Walter Olson
Per its critics, at least, who include a vice president of the Florida bar association [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]. Tags: chasing clients Related posts YouTube lawyer ads (3) Willie Gary marketing tactics (2) William Shatner lawyer ads (1) WhoCanISue.com (9) When lawyers' blogs proclaim their expertise (0)
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22 Oct 9:08 pm by Walter Olson
A neon-look lighted vehicle wrap, more than 275 domain names and a paid person "ready to chat with any visitor to his Web sites" day or night are all part of the Florida DUI specialist's marketing effort: "This is the way of the future," he says. [Herald-Tribune via ABA Journal] Tags: chasing clients, Florida Related posts Schwartz Zweben and the Ms. Wheelchair pageant, cont'd (10) February 19 roundup (0) Erin Brockovich in Florida (5) YouTube lawyer ads (3) Willie Gary marketing tactics (2)
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