Utah nurse gets $500 k settlememt

Not a very big one. This was such a slam dunk it's very unlikely they got much contingency at all. If they did they straight up scammed her.

 

Likely 30%

 

More likely 0% done Pro-Bono by some local lawyer looking for good publicity. This was a national news story and made every liberal defense attorney west of the Mississippi aroused as hell. Even the local conservative sorts would want to defend her because she's the kind of person they identify with on a tribal level.

These cops never had a chance once the news broke. Neither did the city when they were talking to her attorneys... Who the good people of Salt Lake's elected officials very likely asked as a personal favor to take on her case... To turn this into a nice quick settlement instead of a long drawn out thing with more news stories and possibly a big settlement.

 

t the average fee for a lawyer in a settlement, 1/3rd the money, or close to $167,000 .

that's what my lawyer got from my motorbike settlement.

now if HER lawyer did this pro-bono, good for him, but there is no mention of a freebie by the law firm. personally, i think she sold out too quick. this could have been a much higher payout, and she could also have sued the cop in civil court.

i know i would not have stopped at a mere half million dollars.

gotta teach the cop a lesson and the police force as well.

there is more money to have been had.

 

Much more money. But the victim wasn't trying to soak the city. If you've never been to Salt Lake City you don't really understand how dominant the LDS church is there. She just wanted an apology and something to be done about the cop. She got that + 500k.

The above is why I doubt she had paid legal representation. Her lawyer is part of the above, and I think it would be pretty unseemly if he took 167k in this situation socially. No chance that guy gets this business. That guy gets your business not hers.

 

well maybe she's a nicer person than me?

i simply would not have settled for too low an amount.

i'd be going for blood. and that's one turnip, that has LOTS of insurance money!!

 

I want you to think about something that you deeply as a person believe in. Would you trample all over that for money? If everyone in your life knew exactly what you'd done how would you feel about it?

I'm not saying she wasn't sincere because she almost certainly was. I'm saying that they did the right thing all around. 500k was fair to her, they fired the cop, they demoted his supervisor. It almost certainly won't happen again. This is basically a textbook example of exactly how to handle this kind of situation from a city management perspective.

These people made the Winter Olympics a break even endeavor. When they did the winter games in Russia they wasted 51 billion dollars.

There's no room for the greedy lawyer in that narrative. This problem was handled. The chances that her attorney wasn't an active part of that have to be approaching zero percent.