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Originally Posted by Kube
What did you charge per hour when you were practicing law?
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Hey Kube and Russcc:
As if it was any of your business, I'll 'splain it to you.
I probably should not post this, but I always just let it all hang out, knowing I will be judged for what I do or say, by some differently than others.
I was an insurance defense attorney. My firm was an insurance defense firm. Insurance companies are/were not known for paying their attorneys a lot of money. After some 20 plus years of practice we charged our clients $90.00 per hour. I made a nice living, but I didn't get rich by any stretch of the imagination.
I raised a family of three kids and put them all through college without taking out any student loans. We had all three in college for two years at the same time, in state sponsored colleges, not private schools.
We supported the wife's mother for the most part for many years, plus probably one of the wife's sisters as well. The last 5-7 normally productive years of my life I was totally unable to work due to health problems.
I have never owned a stable of vintage cars like many on this forum. Two is the most I ever owned. I restored all of the cars I've owned myself. I've never been able to pay to have them restored. The only new cars I've ever driven were company cars before I went into private practice.
I was raised on Proverbs 22:1 "A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches and loving favor more than silver or gold". I have never been motivated by money like one fellow who ran off with $400K belonging to "a big Ford club" a few years back, or what's his name, that recently bilked so many on his investors with the BitCoin fraud.
So, I appreciate every even small part that others have contributed to this project engine I'm building for the Ford Foundation museum. I even appreciate the $25.00 that was contributed by a fellow with a rather large fleet of restored cars. I'm trying to acknowledge all of the contributors on a plaque attached to the engine stand, but that costs money, which runs low many times, unfortunately.
Now, as we used to say as kids "Put that in your pipe and smoke it."
Go ahead and hit "Post", Lawson