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| "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"--Shakespeare |
Lawyers:
From time to time we all need them, just like a plumber. Like plumbers, they oftentimes are called in to clean up messes that stink--and then you get a huge bill for the service.
Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's Henry VI said it well: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
I have a running schtick I employ from time to time: "I don't like lawyers, and there's only 1 Lawyer I trust!" (Soon, I'll be forced to modify this phrase, as in addition to my brother being a lawyer--in less than a year my oldest son will also be one upon his graduation from Marquette Law School in the Spring of 2022) So it will be "Theres only 1-- I mean 2---that I trust."
And of course I say that facetiously, in jest. It's humorous to those that know me and my brother. But in humor, sometimes, there is often a kernel of truth--so we will leave that right there....
Case in point and the focus of part I of this post--trickery, wordsmithed half truths posited as fact and posed to me as a question during my deposition by a shyster the county is using taxpayer money to pay.
It is all related to the recent settlement in Public Safety--necessitated by a timeline that plainly established the fact that the county's medical director at that time engaged in retaliation against a subordinate employee, exceeded her authority in constructively demoting/disciplining the subordinate, and completely usurped the chain of command of her organization by being insubordinate and deciding to initiate the filing of a state level complaint against a subordinate without bringing the department head or the administrator into the loop about this decision-----until she, essentially, had pulled the trigger on it by writing it all up and wrapping a bow around it.
Clear as crystal, it was retaliation, so far as I can tell and in my opinion. I believe this is the impetus for the lawyers for the insurance company all but begging the BCC NOT to take this case to trial and to settle it. We took their advice; we settled the case with Selover and subsequently paid him nearly $200,000.
During the last portion of my cross-examination by this creature on Jauary 18th---- she busts this statement/question out on me-------and I responded to her (p. 207 of the deposition):
"Q. Well, you are aware, are you not, sir, that
Dr. Edler sat down with Mr. Dosh, and with Mr.
Spainhower, and reviewed all of the documentation that
she was going to submit to the Department of Health
before she submitted it? You're aware of that?
A. That's not the information that I have, no."
(I didn't have that information and the reason I answered the question the way I did was because I had been told, and everything I had seen, was that everyone was totally and completely blindsided by
