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re: What happened to E Eric Gerard?

Posted on 4/27/15 at 3:52 pm to
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 4/27/15 at 3:52 pm to
So Eric is probably his real first name. Maybe he just really likes the letter E.
Posted by Shamalamadingdong
Member since Mar 2015
188 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 3:54 pm to
He will be back and he will be on TV before you know it and within a year no one will even remember he was gone. His brand is solid enough and he still has enough cash to get going again.

He is in litigation with Dudley Debosier and at some point he'll settle that for a nice chunk. I'm not sure if Tommy will practice again but than again he just might.

I've known them since Catholic High as well as a few others that probably post here or at least lurk.
Posted by Grit-Eating Shin
You're an Idiot
Member since May 2013
8537 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 3:56 pm to
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Would come into restaurant I worked at and order the "E Special".
Used to come into Ninfa's a lot when I worked there in the late 90s. He would always use his law firm pens to sign his credit card slips, and would always leave the pen. Free advertising, I guess.

I always called him "E. Eric Gaytard".
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
31706 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 3:57 pm to
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He is in litigation with Dudley Debosier and at some point he'll settle that for a nice chun


Why is he suing them?
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
127693 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 3:57 pm to
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Case managers settling cases


Literally everyone did this back in the day from what I understand. One lawyer with 7 paralegals doing all of the work.
Posted by Mung
Ba’on Rooj
Member since Aug 2007
9124 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:01 pm to
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Why is he suing them?

quantum meruit for the fees on the existing cases when he got defrocked. DD took over all the cases, and rented his building, I guess.

I saw where Pittinger got reinstated. Curious to see whether EEG will get back in. It is way harder than it used to be, though it is also easier to be disbarred.
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
7094 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:04 pm to
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What do his friends call him? E?


His friends do call him "E". He went to high school with my dad. I've met him a number of times, and he's never remembered me so take that for what it's worth.

I was told that basically he wasn't doing anything that anyone else wasn't doing, but that he pissed off the wrong people and it got him disbarred. I don't really believe that to be the whole truth. I've also been told that he's terrible with money.
This post was edited on 4/27/15 at 4:07 pm
Posted by rented mule
Member since Sep 2005
2711 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:05 pm to
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Would come into restaurant I worked at and order the "E Special"

Had a friend who was a barista at Starbucks and would come in and pull the same shite. Some kind of latte he would call it the "E", if someone there didn't know what he was talking about, he would go into hysterics and begin berating them.
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
31706 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:06 pm to
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if someone there didn't know what he was talking about, he would go into hysterics and begin berating them.


What an arrogant douchebag.
Posted by Goldrush25
San Diego, CA
Member since Oct 2012
33843 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:07 pm to
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Had a friend who was a barista at Starbucks and would come in and pull the same shite. Some kind of latte he would call it the "E", if someone there didn't know what he was talking about, he would go into hysterics and begin berating them


Sounds like a narcissist.
Posted by TigerGman
Center of the Universe
Member since Sep 2006
13350 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:08 pm to
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He will be back and he will be on TV before you know it and within a year no one will even remember he was gone. His brand is solid enough and he still has enough cash to get going again.



Back to business as usual, under-settling cases. Insurance companies love him.

Somebody gotta pay for all that TV cult of personality.
Posted by Grit-Eating Shin
You're an Idiot
Member since May 2013
8537 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:09 pm to
I sincerely hope that no one ever remembered what it was. Like, even the people who knew what it was...I hope they pretended not to know. What a sorry frickstick.
Posted by rented mule
Member since Sep 2005
2711 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:15 pm to
Yeah, she said that happened.....a lot
Posted by Shamalamadingdong
Member since Mar 2015
188 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:16 pm to
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quantum meruit for the fees on the existing cases when he got defrocked. DD took over all the cases, and rented his building, I guess.


This. They are arguing over the formula for what the cases are worth. Pittinger has settled with them E has not.

I'm pretty sure they sold the building although originally they just leased it.

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I saw where Pittinger got reinstated. Curious to see whether EEG will get back in. It is way harder than it used to be, though it is also easier to be disbarred.


He filed a few months behind Tommy so he's thinking he's a few months out. It will be interesting. He pissed a lot of people off but on the other hand he paid his dues more so than a lot of people.

And as above-insurance companies love him and his brand is so entrenched that what 5 years down the road a message board is talking about him? I'd put my money on a comeback.

But he'll have to work his arse off to catch Gordon. I've known him since U High as well and Gordon is as slick as he looks.
Posted by therick711
South
Member since Jan 2008
26096 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:21 pm to
His real name is Eric J. Guirard. What he did is, in fact, uncommon.

LINK
Posted by Oates Mustache
Member since Oct 2011
25779 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:23 pm to
Maybe he's Skillet.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
41468 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:24 pm to
Spencer Callahan is the king of the BR ambulance chasers. E Eric and Gordon McKernan are just fighting for second place.
Posted by Mung
Ba’on Rooj
Member since Aug 2007
9124 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 4:45 pm to
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I've known him since U High


but do you give him the secret handshake?

We had an older lawyer here in Alexandria get defrocked for the same reason, but his paralegal was just out of control, and he was weak. Guirard had an actual system that rewarded paralegals to settle cases for less than the going rate, before they ever got to a lawyer. That actually harmed clients, though they were all moan and groan chiropracter type cases. I'm not sure with the Supremes' current impetus on public protection that he can get back in. We shall see.
Posted by Halftrack
The Wild Blue Yonder
Member since Apr 2015
2763 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 5:45 pm to
That whole business seems cheesy. And expensive. Running all that advertising can't be cheap. And the more people who are in the business, the fewer cases you get, and the more you have to advertise.

Not sure that even if I were a lawyer I would want to be running around town known as the big "H."
Posted by Ruxin
Cypress, TX
Member since Nov 2012
1071 posts
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:20 pm to
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How have you not figured out the EEG and DD are the same?


What is it now? Get the D, guaranteed.
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