"Charlie Morgan" wrote:

It was pretty clear that your post was intended to announce that you
thought you
were going to sue somebody for a large amount of money.

Yes, a federal law has been broken, and I thought he could give me 5 minutes
of advice on how to search for a good lawyer.

Unless you are a
complete idiot, you weren't really trying to retain a lawyer based on his
presense in a usenet group.

I never said that I wanted to retain him. I find Dave knowledgeable about
many things, and since he claimed to be a lawyer, he might be intelligent
about that subject too.

That just doesn't wash for anyone with an IQ over
60.

Sorry your IQ isn't over 60. I said earlier in a post that you were smarter
than people here give you credit. Mea culpa.

You know virtually nothing about him, or what sort of law he specializes
in.

That is correct, I have no idea. I assume if he went to law school, he
would know the basics. Dave said in a post as long as it wasn't about
workers comp or a NY case, which this is not. Dave said that his firm had a
large litigation practice, IIRC.

You don't know what states he can practice in.

I don't care, I wasn't asking him to represent me in any shape or fashion.
Just wondering where to start on a federal case. So you're telling me Dave
doesn't know anything about federal law? I thought you two were becoming
friends, but now you are telling me he can't answer a simple question about
where to start on a federal case. Got it!

Totally bull****. I'm sure Dave
realized that, too. If I was going to start buying newspapers in NY, I
might ask
him to help out with the aquisition. He's a pretty sharp guy. Believe me,
he
doesn't do Slip & Fall, or lumpy liposuction claims.

I guess you've had liposuction and are unsteady on your feet, hence know
this information from talking to him? I don't have any idea why you are
going off on me, but you seem to wake up on the wrong side of the bed much
of the time.
All I can gather by his silence is that he doesn't want to be bothered with
simple law questions. That's okay. Dave's a taker and not a giver...his
choice.

Thanks for the clarification!

LP