Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

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wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) said:

> Hmm.  Now *there's* an on-commission case: take New Samantha's
> side and if you win then she's legally the same person she always
> was and can access her bank account and pay you; lose and she's a
> penniless ward of the state and you get zilch.  (Unless a judge
> makes new law by declaring her an heir of legally-dead Samantha,
> anyway.)

Aargh.  The term I was unable to think of last night was
"contingency-fee case."  ("On-commission case?"  Does that even
_mean_ anything in the legal profession?)

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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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