Boose, Casey, Ciklin, Lubitz, Martens, O’Connell was the law firm we originally hired to help negotiate the Greater Bay contract, a contract that was signed under unusual circumstances (insurrection on the dais) in November 2006. The following year, William Boose went to prison, involved in the Masilotti scandal that put Masilotti in federal prison as well. The firm dropped the name of Boose.
Long time partner, Patrick Casey, retired last Fall and the firm dropped the name Casey from the masthead. Now Casey, founder of the firm, is suing his old firm over retirement benefits in the amount of $511,200 allegedly owed to him.
Through all of their turmoil, the City of Lake Worth stood by the firm (they helped to negotiate the Greater Bay contract) and they represented us while and after breaking it. Brian Joslyn was our "counsel,"who helped drag out the case over three years and cost us several hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees just to end up recommending that we settle with Peter Willard and group (Greater Bay) for $1.6 million dollars. Willard obviously never had any intention of developing our beach because he never performed and was someone who had nine pages of judgments against him. Joslyn, the lawyer who was on our side, said that we "could have" lost millions more because he conducted four mock juries that "said so," a mockery in itself. The lawyer who was hired by us to represent the city never mentioned in that public settlement meeting that he was arguing for Greater Bay during those "pretend" trials, confirmed by Scott Maxwell.
We can't afford all these legal fees with every Tom, Dick and Harry or nut case suing the City, that's a given. However, when prudent in the future, shouldn't outside counsel be hired from a law firm that still has fire in the belly, one that will tell us the facts from inception and a law firm that has our best interests--still believing in winning rather than perhaps both sides dragging a case out and nothing is left but billable hours for 36 months? Lawyers are the great manipulators.
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Commissions are ignorant. They are not lawyers and they depend on STAFF to tell them what to do . That is the problem in Lake Worth. We citizens are being subjected to stupid staff decisions all the time!STAFF is paid by the citizens,yet STAFF continually makes BAD decisions that hurt the very people paying their salaries!We need to start electing people that care more for the CITIZENS than they do their BUDDIES on STAFF. Katie Mcgiveron
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