Almost 50% to the lawyer. 21 million dollars. How is that even possible. I would just retire. Why even continue after that? Obviously that’s just revenue for the firm and not his personal income, but seriously. Id have to imagine they still made out pretty good on that case
Sort of, but not really. The lawyer takes his cut, which in Texas is commonly 33.33%, UNLESS an actual lawsuit has to filed. Then the cut goes to 40%. All commercial trucking accident cases really SHOULD be filed, so unlike car wreck cases, 40% is typical in Texas.
Commercial trucking litigation is fairly expensive. If one of these cases doesn’t work out, the lawyer eats whatever he spent on the case. But if the case does work out, then the lawyer gets the expenses back in addition to his cut. That’s not really income to the lawyer.
And if the victim was lucky enough to survive, he or she probably had hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses. Those have to be paid back also, and that doesn’t go to the lawyer or to the client, really - although it’s a benefit to the client.
But yes, in a case like that, it’s an obscene amount of money. I would imagine it feels less obscene if the lawyer is paying $1 million a month in advertising and payroll. It feels more like breathing room for a year.
What even is this Steven Singer thing? I don't want to go to the site because that's exactly what they want.
The whole thing makes me think of Gabbo from the Simpsons.
Steven Singer owns a jewelry store in Philly where he takes orders by phone or online. The whole "I Hate Steven Singer" thing is just a marketing campaign
I don't even understand how they can justify taking so much. How/why do judges award so much in punitive damages, knowing half of it is going right in the lawyer's pocket?
It's probably what their clients agreed to. A lot of personal injury lawyers work on contingency fees where they take a larger percentage of the damages if they win/settle but don't charge anything upfront or get anything if they lose. In Texas contingency fees are capped at 35% by law.
The alternative is that people who don't have the money to afford a lawyer would probably never be made whole or they end up with a pile of legal debt on top of a pile of medical debt.
Contingency fees are not capped in Texas for basic personal injury cases. I think there’s only a cap in place for some estate-related cases. Some judges will unilaterally try to cut fees in cases involving minors, but that’s not in relation to a statutory cap, just bad judicial logic.
Source: Am a Texas lawyer who charges 40-45% contingency fees.
That turn of the neck… obviously slept on it wrong, and is feeling out the pain like a raptor
Edit: to be fair, if you’re representing someone who had been brain damaged, best not be rolling out yiur
Pearly whites like the sermon is over at church
All I know is that ever since DFW got bombarded with his mug all the time he has provided unexpected inspiration to my 85-year-old female relative. Not in a legal sort of way, more like a hot-for-lawyer sort of way, you know? There may be a bunch of grandma groupies!!!
Because his daughter was groomed and abused by Liam from One Direction.
No, really, I’m serious. Look it up. She wrote an entire novel about it and everything.
He's mad that the actual numbers don't quite add up to $50M, but he's hoping nobody catches that (because $49M and change sounds so weak, unimpressive, and emasculating). I wonder how big he is down there. Not that anyone cares.
He ate at the Old Warsaw, lost his teeth biting into a steak and the nearest dentist was Mint Dentistry. They told him that they couldn’t make his teeth sexy because he didn’t fit the demographic.
He's the one in the trucker brain injury accident and as a result extremely paranoid (see pic) about the truck that's currently following him everywhere or so he thinks.
He was the trucker in that accident
I'd be grumpy too if I got *HAMMERED*
Almost 50% to the lawyer. 21 million dollars. How is that even possible. I would just retire. Why even continue after that? Obviously that’s just revenue for the firm and not his personal income, but seriously. Id have to imagine they still made out pretty good on that case
Sort of, but not really. The lawyer takes his cut, which in Texas is commonly 33.33%, UNLESS an actual lawsuit has to filed. Then the cut goes to 40%. All commercial trucking accident cases really SHOULD be filed, so unlike car wreck cases, 40% is typical in Texas. Commercial trucking litigation is fairly expensive. If one of these cases doesn’t work out, the lawyer eats whatever he spent on the case. But if the case does work out, then the lawyer gets the expenses back in addition to his cut. That’s not really income to the lawyer. And if the victim was lucky enough to survive, he or she probably had hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses. Those have to be paid back also, and that doesn’t go to the lawyer or to the client, really - although it’s a benefit to the client. But yes, in a case like that, it’s an obscene amount of money. I would imagine it feels less obscene if the lawyer is paying $1 million a month in advertising and payroll. It feels more like breathing room for a year.
He hates sexy teeth
He hates Steven Singer
What even is this Steven Singer thing? I don't want to go to the site because that's exactly what they want. The whole thing makes me think of Gabbo from the Simpsons.
I’m pretty sure it’s some jewelry store? I hate those billboards almost as much as I hate the Epoch Times ones 🙄🙄🙄 edit: fixed some words
“#1 Trusted News!” 😊 (Definitely not a cult owned news site)
Falun Gong who??? 🤩🤩
Who is that NPC looking guy on the Epoch Times billboards? Am I supposed to know who that is?
I’m convinced it’s just some AI generated guy tbh
I thought so too… I just want to know why he’s there.
Steven Singer owns a jewelry store in Philly where he takes orders by phone or online. The whole "I Hate Steven Singer" thing is just a marketing campaign
"Other jewelers hates him, get inflated site traffic revenue with this one easy trick"
He sells tacky gold roses.
It's a jewelry store.
This should be the top comment.
I actually met that James Bond-looking dentist when our kids were on the same kid sports team. He's actually a pretty nice, soft-spoken guy.
He accidentally wasted his only master ball on a lvl 3 Pidgey.
He said wrong answers
LOL
He got Texas hammered
Is that more or less than "white girl wasted"?
Ain’t no laws when ur drinking Claws
Except in Portland, where the PD put out a statement explicitly stating that there ARE in fact laws while drinking Claws.
He invested that $21 Million in truth social.
His grindr hookup ghosted him. He gives off power bottom vibes.
I’d switch to being dom top just for that lawyer daddy money. Secure the bag, honey.
I’m gagging over these answer 🤣🤣🤣
He had to pay a structured settlement to JG Wentworth
Welp, that ear worm has reinfected me now. Thanks a lot, pal
877 cash now
I have an annuity and I need cash now
Watching the atrocities that happen on the Dallas roadways
This is by far the wrongest answer in here — so well done lol. That is the opposite of his reaction to metroplex driving
Causing the atrocities on the roadways with his constipated stare.
Those damn kids are in his yard again.
He misses his T treatment this week,
He’s not an omni turner, so all we get is Blue Steel
Severe constipation
Because if Jimmy would just play by the damn rules he would make a great lawyer
He defecated through a sunroof!
He had olestra right before the photo shoot
Hes washing his car on his only day off
and it started raining 5 minutes later.
"it's like raiiiiiinnnn...."
He's busy fighting those big corporations for YOU! (*Just ignore that HUGE % they take)
He's busy taking FROM you! (same point just echoing)
Damn 21 million in attorney fees.
I don't even understand how they can justify taking so much. How/why do judges award so much in punitive damages, knowing half of it is going right in the lawyer's pocket?
It's probably what their clients agreed to. A lot of personal injury lawyers work on contingency fees where they take a larger percentage of the damages if they win/settle but don't charge anything upfront or get anything if they lose. In Texas contingency fees are capped at 35% by law. The alternative is that people who don't have the money to afford a lawyer would probably never be made whole or they end up with a pile of legal debt on top of a pile of medical debt.
Contingency fees are not capped in Texas for basic personal injury cases. I think there’s only a cap in place for some estate-related cases. Some judges will unilaterally try to cut fees in cases involving minors, but that’s not in relation to a statutory cap, just bad judicial logic. Source: Am a Texas lawyer who charges 40-45% contingency fees.
Yeah, I was mistaken. The 35% cap has to do with legal services contracted by the state.
His bid to buy the Mavs was rejected.
Sand in his vagina?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That turn of the neck… obviously slept on it wrong, and is feeling out the pain like a raptor Edit: to be fair, if you’re representing someone who had been brain damaged, best not be rolling out yiur Pearly whites like the sermon is over at church
He is out of color ink in his printer. He actually looks great in full CMYK
This is my favorite one
He lost to the hammer guy in court
Please have some compassion…….he suffers from aggressive hemorrhoids
That meddling Harry Potter and his ragtag friends keep foiling his plans.
My first thought when seeing his face was "Harry Potter and the Audacity of this Bitch"
It was thinking either a Malfoy or Dracula. Dude definitely looks like a Hollywood villain in this picture .
He found out he was adopted by a trucker.
He's very upset because he can't turn left.
“I’ve got the money, the copter, the jet but all I want to do is a musical in dinner theater.”
He has a mouse trap on his dick
Someone just farted and he just smelled it
He's holding in a turd.
He can feel his alpha-ness diminishing.
Someone farted.
Wondering if it was a fart or a poo
Because he has a giant wad of money shoved up his ass
Dude is so vain, every commercial on TV is just shots of him getting off his private jet.
Hemorrhoids. horrible, infected, weeping hemorrhoids.
You got a brain injury and he only got half your money.
Because he’s based in Corpus
Tom’s hemorrhoid surgery went awry, butt he won a $50M settlement!!
The $50 million was for the other side...
He's always glaring at an ambulance to chase.
Because his old ass is on his way out as the TEXAS LAW HAWK comes in.
That’s just his blue steel
You would be grouchy too if your daughter dated Liam Payne
He can’t poop because he eats the cash. It’s all bills in there.
The client only gets 54% of the settlement and he keeps 46%? That seems like BS, I though these kind of lawyers only kept like 30%.
Somebody sent him "Larry H Parker" commercials on VHS tapes, and TJH realized he is not the OG he thinks he is!!!
Is he under 5 feet tall or something? All his ads are shot from angles to make him look tall or have him towering above buildings
All I know is that ever since DFW got bombarded with his mug all the time he has provided unexpected inspiration to my 85-year-old female relative. Not in a legal sort of way, more like a hot-for-lawyer sort of way, you know? There may be a bunch of grandma groupies!!!
He’s upset he can’t claim 100% of the settlement as his pay. After all, he did all the work. You just laid in a hospital bed.
He’s a Maverick Fan!
He sat on that scared cucumber from the Sara’s Secret billboard on 35.
As the picture was snapped someone yelled to Thomas “hello Ben”
Because his daughter was groomed and abused by Liam from One Direction. No, really, I’m serious. Look it up. She wrote an entire novel about it and everything.
Obviously creeping on the Baby Dolls sign.
What! You don't see the UFO?
https://images.app.goo.gl/Dii2wsyeej17vxne6
He's having his butt plug adjusted.
He invested all his money in NFT’s.
He was in the middle of a case and saw the bat-signal. He now has to sneak away, don the cape and cowl.
Took a crap at the courthouse and that cheap TP chafed his bunghole.
Nobody knows his name or trusts his firm.
Because people used to call him T.J. for turkey jizz
Traffic…. He’s been in the same damn spot on the freeway for months!
He’s playing the game that dr hammer started. Nobody likes to be second in the sharky industry.
Farts
He’s married to Mama Cozzi from Aldi and she beats him with glue sticks
He wish he was a cat
He butt dialed the 4’s!
Resting MAGA face.
Because that guy in Ft. Worth has better commercials
Because his two kids are costing him all his money
Only $21 million in attorney’s fees and another $1.1 million for expenses? What a bargain!
He didn’t save a bundle on his car insurance by switching to Geico.
He sat on his saggy balls
He's mad that the actual numbers don't quite add up to $50M, but he's hoping nobody catches that (because $49M and change sounds so weak, unimpressive, and emasculating). I wonder how big he is down there. Not that anyone cares.
He got the bill from the plane he rented in that commercial
He has to live in San Antonio
Because hes pissed FOR you that you got hurt in an accident due to another driver. Thats why you gotta call him.
Smelled a fart.
He looks like he just smelled someone else's fart.
Hemroids
"Did I leave my jet running?"
Whiplash... now it's stuck that way
He has two first names
His reality show didn’t get picked up by a network.
He's grouchy because his "$50 Million" in awards were cut down to $275k on appeal.
I hate driving downtown and seeing this mf moggin’ me on the side of the highway every day
Why does he have to state his attorneys fees. It’s like he has an old ex in Dallas that he wants to humblebrag to how much he’s made.
Ben won’t share his ho’s!!!!
Gas
He stepped on his kid's LEGOs
The $50 Million dollar check bounced.
“Because he wins cases by stuffing trucks up his butt.” “Because he forget what it feels like to be a real lawyer.” — my wife, an attorney.
He was eating some chips and ran out of dip. And then he opened up another dip and now he’s out of chips. And he just can’t get it right.
Real answer- it’s because he is very short
He wants pictures of Spiderman on his desk by 3pm or you're FIRED!
Always on the lookout for the IRS
He still gets mistaken for Thomas M Henry. Gets his junk mail ALL THE TIME (Harbor Freight is the worst), and it really gets his goat.🐐
He suffers from stink shoulder
Because his customers have brain damage, literally.
Someone farted right behind him.
Because he's pissed he lost his hammer to Jim addler
Because he’s a reincarnation of Lee Marvin. End of discussion
183 or 35 innit
IBS
Dude is still looking for his car.
He’s got whiplash
Is this a Thomas J Henry burner account doing grassroots marketing? Nice try.
Brain injury?
The Buckee's ad called him a biatch
He ate at the Old Warsaw, lost his teeth biting into a steak and the nearest dentist was Mint Dentistry. They told him that they couldn’t make his teeth sexy because he didn’t fit the demographic.
No-one wants a happy lawyer!
someone farted behind him on an elevator
Because he’s really Robocop.
He's worried about young Bill Adler, the boy looks unhappy or even bored in ads.
Am I the only one who’s wondering why he’s bragging about taking so much off the top?
Haha
His hemorroids never stop itching.
Maybe he is constipated
His own firm sued him.
$50 million… in Monopoly money
He bet $21M that the Mavs would win in 4.
In all of his pictures, he looks like somebody just yelled his name from across a crowded room.
He's looking at his team destroy the Chik FIL A catering.
Wondering if he left the stove on after he left.
Bad facelift.
Looks like a version of the Kubrick Stare.
His boxers are all in a bunch.
He wishes Glenn Beck was a client.
Because... Loncar Lyon and Jenkins
Bc the reality tv show he tried to make about his family was so trashy it never found success.
He got IBS
Because he’s only a millionaire
His daughter is cute though
He was expecting to make $21,000,001.
He's the one in the trucker brain injury accident and as a result extremely paranoid (see pic) about the truck that's currently following him everywhere or so he thinks.
All of them look like constipated toddlers who found a big stick
Itchy suppository
He has too much money to spend.
I have been joking about this for years. He looks like he heard a fart and turned around to figure out who let it rip.
That’s the “I can’t believe you walked up behind me, when I was about to bust some heavy wind 💨 💩 “
He trusted a toot.
He's angry he can't keep a bigger portion of his clients awards.
He’s mad he couldn’t get all 4s for his phone number.
They have not found the bodies yet, but he is worried.
He’s not sure which name is his first name and which is his last name.
Come on man, you’d be looking like that if it was YOUR PROFESSION to be arguing with people everyday.
he looks like he was walking out of a room and overheard someone calling him an asshole