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Ambulance Chaser |
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A colloquial phrase that is used derisively for a person who is hired by an attorney to seek out Negligence cases at the scenes of accidents or in hospitals where injured parties are treated, in exchange for a percentage of the damages that will be recovered in the case. Also used to describe attorneys who, upon learning of a personal injury that might have been caused by the negligence or the wrongful act of another, immediately contact the victim for consent to represent him or her in a lawsuit in exchange for a Contingent Fee, a percentage of the judgment recovered. |
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Logline: A burnt-out ambulance chaser (Don Johnson) spending his
days sunning himself on Venice Beach reticently teams up with an
18-year-old legal prodigy (Jay Baruchel). The other thing I saw yesterday
was a telephone directory in my hotel, and on the back page there was a
huge ad for ambulance chasers. Hanks counters with a wrongful termination suit
and, his case rejected by nine other lawyers, winds up with an
intelligent ambulance chaser played by Washington. |
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