That's not the question I asked. You said he preyed on women, or I missunderstood you and he was actually perfoming some type of religous work with them, but I really thought you meant "preyed" like the lion and the zebra prey. Mr. Edwards collected 150 big fat ones for winning 63 cases involving CP. Given that he averaged 20% contingency, that means those women won on average around 80 million a piece. Next time I need a lawyer, I'm going to go find one that specializing in preying on me.

I'm no expert on CP but I know some numbers - it occurs in 2 out of every 1000 births. 10% of the cases are traced to lack of oxogen at birth, and 3% of those result in malpractice cases. Since there are 500,000 people with cerebal palsy in the US, that works out to 1500 happy lawyers. I'd say Edwards pursuing 63 cases was pretty reasonable, and if some doctor screwed up my kid I 'd hire him, because he works on contingency and he wins. I suppose I could just stay home and not get preyed upon, but I think having a severely handicapped kid to take care of for about the next 50 years might change anyone's mind on that.

I get the impression you think Mr. Edwards like, created phony evidence or swayed some jury with a bloody glove or something. This isn't some loser spilling MacDonalds coffee on his johnson, these are people who have had their dreams destroyed and their lives forever altered with unexpected burdens and sadness, and a jury decided this was due to the neglect of others after a big insurance company had every chance in the world to shoot them down. If I were the Republicans, I'd stick with crying about tobacco lawyers. Going after a guy who fights for people whose kids got messed up may not work out the way you planned with that old soccer mom swing vote.