Re: KaiserDillon

yes in principle. need to do my homework on him. etc.

sorry, i sugggested no heavyweights. . and said local. only, I want a lawyer that has worked on the same side as ASU not opposite. I have spoken to others re your situation

can we find a jew. ? this person that wrote you is a dope. of the first order. 1 no need to be adversarial to ASU. at all, YOU WILL LOSE if you are, guaranteed. !!!. 2. the law firm . already lost its case last time. . so .. 3. an older woman lawyer. single practitioner olk

Just had an hour consult with Justin Dillon of KaiserDillon, probably the premiere Title IX firm in the country (you can google all the work they have done). He is presently doing 2 cases at ASU, and it turns out he read physics of star trek when he was in college and is a big fan. He seemed excellent and knew just how the system works (and has already once forced ASU to end a suspension of a student because they violated his rights).

Anyway, we talked strategy etc, and I am confident if I went with a lawyer to keep me in my position at ASU they are the firm. They are not cheap though. $15K retainer, and he expected the full process would probably be between $50-100K.

Let me be blunt. Can you help? I have already lost over $100K in speaking engagements this year alone.

There is no one else I would ask so bluntly, nor anyone else I will be absolutely fine with whatever the answer is.

Lawrence

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look at hi.. he says he has worked with ASU counsels before.. is not adversarial.

I have a few local suggestions but not sure..

Here is from a law professor at ASU:

"One of the problems in finding a top law firm in this town that can be adverse to ASU is that ASU uses most of these firms, including those I have worked with or know people at and thus can recommend on personal experience. For both for ethical and business reasons, however, these firms can't or do not want to be adverse to ASU. The only firm that I know something about that might be right for you and could take your case is Martin & Bonnett http://www.martinbonnett.com/ I know them because they represented a tenured ASU professor fired on what seemed to many of us at the law school to be a trumped up charge of plagiarism. (She had plagiarized some material in her syllabus for which the university committee hearing hear case recommended a relatively light sanction. Crow rejected these findings and fired her. (The scuttlebutt was that she was a major pain in the ass in her department and that was the real reason she was fired.) My late colleague Joe Feller worked closely with this firm and arranged for the AAUP to file an amicus brief which many members of the law faculty, including me, signed. Crow was none to happy about this, btw. My sense is that although the professor lost her case (courts are reluctant to intervene in these types of case), Martin & Bonnett did a good job. So when my dean fired a secretary assigned to me, Paul Bender, and several others (including another former dean), Paul and I contacted the firm for some advice. If you would like my help to find a firm in another city, especially LA, I should be able to offer you more selection and a more definite and knowledgeable recommendation. Jim "

nancy says there is one female title IX lawyer in PHX. but she is the opposite of what we want.. the angry woman type.. defends women abused by the system.. yuck.. I think this is the right guy..

Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: Assistant (Jessica): Origins Office (Cynthia): origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/lkrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu

she sounds like our person if she will take our case. , the only goal is not to be fired. if possible , keep money if you do get fired and or suspended. lawrence. this is not a case of a single or even two accusers . all the title 9 is out the window. it is hostile work environment. issue . as well. you and nancy, continue not to see clearly . sorry.

your case , is very very different. than most. all the things you have written about re lawyers is naive , uninformed an contrary to your interest in my opinion. however you are of course free to do as yo please , but i will not fund your own strategic demise

btw.. Dillon did agree with you that my case is different and more complicated than most.. one of the first things he said in fact.. which is one of the reasons he argued that it might cost more than the 40-50K it traditionally costs in these type of cases.

Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office I Assistant (Jessica): Origins Office (Cynthia):

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