Look Ron,
Markets can only work when free people can voice their opinions to peers
who are in a position clean up messes.
Often times that can only be accomplished by informing those who hire the
beasts and keep them in business. I see those rants every day about my
peers on this list and I can tell you that a lot of effort is made in an
attempt to help. I've made that effort without compensation for
librarians for over five years.
I'm spending all of my time and money trying to fix problems for folks
like law librarians and their employers. I would certainly hope that you
are as interested in cleaning up your industry as we are in cleaning up
ours. That's called leadership and responsibility. I want to be informed
when my peers are using such poor tactics that skirt the loopholes in the
law that it has a negative effect on my industry.
In this case like so many others, an informed market will probably do a
lot more than a special interest group.
That's why it should be of interest to you and this COP.
Mark Montgomery
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:54:46 +1000 Ron.Huttner@ssat.gov.au writes:
>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but precisely *what* has this got to do
> with (a)
> law-librarianship, (b) matters related to law-librarianship or (b)
> legal
> research ? If you, Mr Montgomery, really *must* rant about the
> alleged improper
> tactics of a firm of attorneys, wouldn't the relevant Bar
> Association be an
> infinitely more appropriate body to rant to - rather than this List
> ?
>
> Ron Huttner
> Legal Researcher
> Melbourne
> Australia
> http://videlex.com
> http://videlex.com/pers1.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark A Montgomery <montgomery_mark@juno.com> on 26/04/2002 12:20:43
>
> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> cc: (bcc: Ron Huttner/NatAdm/SSAT)
>
> Subject: Aron @ Associates
>
>
>
> Be advised that my recent experience with Aron @ Associates of
> Tucson,
> "Arizona's Collection Law Firm" was so bad that it brings our view
> of the
> entire law industry down substantially. These guys are worse than
> any
> complaint that I've seen about publishers, software companies, or
> any
> other business I've engaged with in over 20 years.
>
> They represented a client on a perfectly legit loan that we didn't
> object
> to but couldn't pay at the time due to investor issues beyond our
> control. They then attempted to place a lien on our house which
> while not
> allowed under AZ law (according to numerous bord certified
> attorneys),
> they filed anyway. They then proceeded to summons me and my wife to
> explain to a country judge the very complex issues in venture
> capital
> financing that led to our innability to pay the unsecured note. I
> have
> absolutely nothing to hide, but negotiated the sale of part of the
> company anyway to get this parrasite off of us so we can get back to
> work
> and produce something positive for society.
>
> Once paid in full, they lied to me about when they canceled the
> summons,
> yelled at me on the phone not to tell them how to practice law (I
> just
> followed the Judge's clerk counsil on how to proceed), and then
> finally
> sent me a letter as follows:
>
> Dear Mr and Mrs Montgomery,
>
> I have exciting news, so please read on. My client has requested
> that I
> contact you to discuss the possibility of settling ...... (clip) by
> 25%
> to 50%.
>
> Signed Peer M. Balisino & Esther B. Simon.
>
>
> These were loans we used our very complex business that I personally
> guaranteed only because our investors were very wealthy, and we had
> interest from senior reps in government, and a fair portion of the
> world's largest companies. And I had no alternative at the time.
> I've
> paid loans off my entire career, sometimes against the advice of our
> attorneys. This is the first time in my experience, which includes
> working for bankruptcy attorneys and many clients pro bono on
> management
> consulting, that I've come across such a firm apparently in good
> standing
> with the bar.
>
> Needless to say, I don't have much respect for any organization that
> does
> business with this type of firm and will avoid doing business with
> them
> in the future. This type of company is in my view directly
> responsible
> for the decline of our quality of life in the U.S., and it's
> shameful
> that our system not only allows them to practice in this manner, but
> that
> they are provided every incentive to do so.
>
> My strong advice to the bar is to clean it up before the system is
> taken
> down.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark Montgomery
>
> PS: The good news is that out of ten lenders we are currently paying
> off,
> this is the only one that used these types of gutter tactics. The
> rest
> were professional adults.
>
>
>
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