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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)

by Ken Fisher, Lara W. Hoffmans
November 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
There
sno other
profitable
way
to steal
legally.
100
IThe Ten Roads to Riches
they do it right- nobody. (O ne potential ex
cept
ion is a legal counsel
to a start-up firm that booms hugely, ge
tt
ing rich
off
options as a
ride-alo
ng-see
Chap
ter
3.)
Case in p
oint
.j
oej amail (
net
worth $1.5 billion)!' is fabled as the
"King
of
Torts"
-a
legendary PL. He's won huge verdicts, includ-
ing
one
for $3.3 billio
n-
his fee there was about $400 million
.F
What
case?
Who
cares! Four hundred
mi
llion.' (O
k-
he r
epr
es
ent
ed
P
enn
zoil against Texaco f
or
screwing up its planned 1980s Ge tty
Oil merger.)
Almost as impressive, ] amail won $6 million for a cli
ent
para-
lyzed in a collision with a commercial truck. S
ound
easy? Maybe
so, except
]amail
admitt
ed in court, on the
record, his cli
ent
was
dru
nk
-s-completely
plut
o-
ed- his blood alcohol
cont
ent
fully triple
the legal limit. Y
et]
amail convinced the jury
that, th ough sloshed, his cli
ent
was other-
wise driving responsibly, ther
ef
or
e n
ot
at fault .
13
That
takes some
serious skills. Arg, mateyl
TORT
US
AND
THE
SCARE
So how can you steal in
PL
mode, make big bucks, strike fear in
some folks
heart
s, while seeming like Robin H ood
to
others and
having the media ad
or
e you? First, you need a cli
ent
folks sympa-
thize with. Kids, sick ones, are great. (O r kids with the
possibility
of being maybe exposed to something maybe dange
rou
s.
May
be.)
Deadly maladies are great- better if w
ork
-rel ated or "created" by
a big corporation. Cli ...
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