Paul Finlayson writes with wit and insight: “I just love the tactics of HR (that's human rights or human resources - they share the acronym) that create a process to abuse you; they banish you from the community you love, they allow students (and staff and faculty) to circulate wild rumours.” They also fabricate or distort allegations and deprive one of natural justice, such as the right to call witnesses or test their witnesses.
The more I read about your Kafkaesque experience in Academia,the more it sounds like exactly the kind of case that employment lawyer Howard Levitt, writing in the Financial Post, said he would take pro bono. He was talking more about acting for any employer who wanted to fire a Hamasshole, but your case is the exact mirror image, wrongful dismissal BY Hamassholes. I’m sure he might be interested in your case. Hell, ABC had to pay Trump $14 million to settle his defamation suit. Your case should be a layup in comparison.
I was once involved in a lawsuit in Alberta way back in the early 1980s (long story, back when I was in the oil bidness and my friends called me Dry Hole Harry) and I found the best strategy was to show up for the discovery accompanied by the meanest, toughest, scariest, most rabid mad dog SOB lawyer in the entire oilpatch. Before I went out there, I called a friend who was a lawyer in Calgary and asked him who he’d least like to have to face in court. He gave me a couple names, and some oilpatch pals gave a few more. When I told my lawyer friend later who I’d hired, he said, “Him? You hired that prick?” And I thought, perfect! So we get in a room with a court stenographer, and my lawyer leans back in his chair and puts his cowboy boots up on the table, and when the rookie lawyer from some white shoe law firm walks in, representing the oil company that was suing me, and sees my guy the pit bull, I’m pretty sure he peed himself. Then my guy lights a cigar(!) and the other lawyer says, “Do you mind not smoking?” And my guy responds, “Yes, I do,” and kept on puffing away. The whole thing took less than an hour, and I never even had to answer a single question, while my guy mercilessly grilled the CEO of the company suing me. They ended up dropping the lawsuit in exchange for us agreeing to not countersue them (which I hadn’t even thought a possibility). I’ve never seen anything like it, before or since.
I met Howard. He’s really a prick but a good lawyer. I think the plan is to wait till I’m fired and take action. I’m tired from the fight and so disappointed that so called friends would hear utter lies and believe them. Sorry I just saw this comment. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tpGe_dHXbtIaFLgnNwp2gBJC5YG5rdTPdYF15R0n9yg/edit
Paul Finlayson writes with wit and insight: “I just love the tactics of HR (that's human rights or human resources - they share the acronym) that create a process to abuse you; they banish you from the community you love, they allow students (and staff and faculty) to circulate wild rumours.” They also fabricate or distort allegations and deprive one of natural justice, such as the right to call witnesses or test their witnesses.
The more I read about your Kafkaesque experience in Academia,the more it sounds like exactly the kind of case that employment lawyer Howard Levitt, writing in the Financial Post, said he would take pro bono. He was talking more about acting for any employer who wanted to fire a Hamasshole, but your case is the exact mirror image, wrongful dismissal BY Hamassholes. I’m sure he might be interested in your case. Hell, ABC had to pay Trump $14 million to settle his defamation suit. Your case should be a layup in comparison.
I was once involved in a lawsuit in Alberta way back in the early 1980s (long story, back when I was in the oil bidness and my friends called me Dry Hole Harry) and I found the best strategy was to show up for the discovery accompanied by the meanest, toughest, scariest, most rabid mad dog SOB lawyer in the entire oilpatch. Before I went out there, I called a friend who was a lawyer in Calgary and asked him who he’d least like to have to face in court. He gave me a couple names, and some oilpatch pals gave a few more. When I told my lawyer friend later who I’d hired, he said, “Him? You hired that prick?” And I thought, perfect! So we get in a room with a court stenographer, and my lawyer leans back in his chair and puts his cowboy boots up on the table, and when the rookie lawyer from some white shoe law firm walks in, representing the oil company that was suing me, and sees my guy the pit bull, I’m pretty sure he peed himself. Then my guy lights a cigar(!) and the other lawyer says, “Do you mind not smoking?” And my guy responds, “Yes, I do,” and kept on puffing away. The whole thing took less than an hour, and I never even had to answer a single question, while my guy mercilessly grilled the CEO of the company suing me. They ended up dropping the lawsuit in exchange for us agreeing to not countersue them (which I hadn’t even thought a possibility). I’ve never seen anything like it, before or since.
I met Howard. He’s really a prick but a good lawyer. I think the plan is to wait till I’m fired and take action. I’m tired from the fight and so disappointed that so called friends would hear utter lies and believe them. Sorry I just saw this comment. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tpGe_dHXbtIaFLgnNwp2gBJC5YG5rdTPdYF15R0n9yg/edit