Admittedly, I am not ‘up’ on all the Opri docs however;
what I have read or skimmed, she is an idiot with and idiot for her lawyer too. Time will tell but I get the feel she did not follow standard itemization practices. If she does’t get her act together on the legal front she will lose this with a jury.
Am I getting this wrong?
She was going to file but... going to declare.. but.. meant to .. but.. now she wants to start over? That isn’t how the law works.
Not from a legal perspective, but based on the chaos that occurred - I think Clarence Darrow be in a pickle.
Opri anticipated just a paternal/custody case. Before long she was racing all over the place, California, Florida the Bahamas. Grooming her client. Schmoozing the media. Trying to set up DNA testing - confronting Anna & HK$ -then Daniel dies - then Anna dies. Opri had to wonder *What the h*ll did I get involved in?*
I’ll cut her some slack - especially since her client bushwacked her in the most despicable way - I hope she can pull this one together.
my humble opinion is that Opri doesn’t want a trial, because it effectively cuts into her own ability to earn a livelihood. Also, I somehow think that, being the child advocate she is, she really doesn’t want to shred a child’s father to ittybittybackwoodgrifterpieces, which she will.
Trope/LB should be shaking in his boots about Opri being on the stand - under oath, attorney client privilege doesn’t stand.
I have no problem with her legal fees - attorneys in Calif start at $250/hr (for the so-so ones) upwards to $450-$500/hr - So to me, it’s a realistic sum. Certainly not what the ‘talking legal heads’ on tv make, but that was their choice, right?
I see nothing wrong with Opri not only cutting a legal representation deal, but also a ‘agent’ agreement. (I think it’s confusing everyone by the wording as a ‘media agreement’). She signed on as his agent, and promptly negotiated the NBC $1M contract signed the week of the funeral. She produced - immediately! but LB got all full of himself and blatently violated his agent agreement by going out on his own to negotiate, trying to run an end play around Opri and robbing her of her due commissions as an agent. Not a good thing to do imo. Probably got his advice from HKS.
let’s not forget that during the summer of 06, LB was cast-calling for bit parts - considering his so-called real estate background, and his so-called journalism background and his so-called photographer background, I found it very curious at 34 (pretty old for hollywood) he wanted to ‘break into’ movies/sitcoms. No breaking in, without an agent - that’s just how hollywood works.
Pay the woman! LB! ya deadbeat!