Get everything in writing!

[wickedwritah]

Even lawyers don't always follow their own advice.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-bearstickets11jun11,0,2456258.story?coll=chi-news-hed

The two experienced litigators had nothing more than an oral agreement.

"That's where there's egg on my face," Ramsell said. Warlick said he was dealing with a friend and saw no need to put anything down on paper.

 

[chazp]

Nothing a lawyer does surprises me.

 

[slappy4428]

"Call me a prima donna," he said, "but we have club seats, and I don't want to stand in a cement parking garage, drinking beer out of somebody's trunk. I've paid a huge amount of money, and I'd rather have my rum and Coke and have somebody serve me."

 

[wickedwritah]

Yeah, the lawyer who filed the suit does sound like a top-notch ****stick.

 

[pseudo]

"Call me a prima donna," he said, "but we have club seats, and I don't want to stand in a cement parking garage, drinking beer out of somebody's trunk. I've paid a huge amount of money, and I'd rather have my rum and Coke and have somebody serve me."

Okay, he's a prima donna. So they get to the venue, he goes inside the stadium club while the other guys stay outside and drink beer out of the trunk. What's the problem? Other than the plaintiff's general asshattery, that is.

(On a personal note: for me, the best-tasting beer of the entire year is the first one out of the cooler on the morning of the home opener, while friends I haven't seen since the end of last season start wandering over to say hi, and the guys over at the Pinto tailgate start cooking breakfast on the hood. What a country!)