March 27, 2007
BAD LAWYERIN' INSTINCTS
Wow! One has to be the worst lawyer in the world to give up the PR bonanza of representing the greatest everyman NYC hero of the last decade in favor of a trying to chisel him out of, what exactly–it's not exactly clear he deserves anything–he's just a fucking hero!
For those that missed out, Wesley Autrey saw a man fall onto the subway tracks a few months ago. Even though he had his daughters in tow, Autrey lept onto the tracks as a train was approaching and pressed himself and the man into a culvert underneath the tracks as the train rolled into the station.
A quick-acting commuter who became an instant hero after saving a teenager who fell in front of an oncoming subway train has sued a lawyer he says manipulated him into signing an unfair, one-sided contract.
Wesley Autrey Sr. says in court papers he signed the contract Feb. 12 without reading it, agreeing that lawyer Diane L. Kleiman would represent and advise him in financial and other matters stemming from his subway heroism.
Autrey, a 50-year-old Bronx construction worker, says in court papers that the contract is "a one-sided agreement" he was induced to sign by "fraud" and that it gives the lion's share of everything he earns to Kleiman and her business partner, Marco Antonio Esposito, operator of an entertainment production company.
I am not a lawyer, but I am also not a natural-born idiot. Someone in this story is.
Tagged: lawyer, subwayPosted by Lexiphane at March 27, 2007 4:20 AM
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