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Would that be the same most experienced, most respected labor attorneys in the country who lost ALPA's office building in the PanAm seniority lawsuit? The same ones who paid nearly a million bucks to the settle with the RJDC? The same ones who just lost mega-millions in the UAL notes lawsuit?
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Maybe we need a second opinion? ... If the ALPA lawyers refuse to take the case then we need to fire them and do a little outsourcing of our own.
So moved & seconded by Bar.
Cohen, weiss and Simon's problem (like many well fed firms fattened by the gravy of a big client who's rich & always in trouble) is that C,W&S practices
ALPA Politics more than they practice law. They listen to what the politicians want and try to make it happen rather than stating the unpopular truth. Chuck Giambusso decided "Delta pilots don't fly small jets" and their attorneys smiled and sent a bill, billed for an entire decade defending bad policy, then a settlement check and another bill. Bad legal advice is good business.
The truth was, is, and continues to be, that a union can not destroy unity and survive. It has been, is, and forever will be, true. Delta pilots must perform Delta flying or this union is toast.