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William O. ("Bud") Bradley, 46, and John Squire Drendel, 47, think of themselves rather expansively as "storefront lawyers who make money." They set up their partnership in 1958 in a converted Reno garage, carefully chosen to avoid intimidating the frequently poor and scruffy clients they wanted to represent. They further decided to take "only the cases where there is a serious injury and clear negligence." Apparent translation: cases that promise large damage awards. In each of the past five years, the duo has grossed more than $2,000,000 in damages for relatively few clients. For the very biggest cases...
...trio's work produced $500,000 for a man who water-skied into a submerged stump and was paralyzed from the neck down. In another case, a jackknifing truck had killed a father, mother and three children and left four more children seriously injured. Boccardo, Bradley and Drendel won a $1,432,500 verdict...
...record-breaking Bush case, Bradley and Drendel ran up pretrial costs of $25,000 and spent endless time getting ready for the courtroom. "It was the best-prepared case I've ever seen," recalls Boccardo, who as usual stepped in just before the trial. Attorneys for the defendant companies were impressed, too, but they still think the record damages are way out of line and have appealed. Boccardo, Bradley and Drendel have more at stake than the highest-ever status of the award. If the judgment stands, their usual contingency fee of 33⅓% will net them more than...
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