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The first rule of law club is you do not mess with the billable hour.<\/p>\nWell, technically the cut hadn’t been finalized yet, but the point remains.
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The first rule of law club is you do not mess with the billable hour.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s one takeaway after Millersville city attorney Bryant Kroll made a show of walking off the job when his clients voted to slash his pay.<\/p>\n
And you thought your bonus situation was bad!<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll just add that the law has a term for this \u2014 it\u2019s called breach of contract and inducement to breach of contract,\u201d Kroll said after the proposed pay cut. \u201cI\u2019m going to go ahead and tender my resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s worth noting that the city\u2019s decision to cut $185\/hour didn\u2019t strike completely out of the blue. The town\u2019s legal bills have \u201chad tripled since Kroll was hired at the beginning of the year \u2014 from about $32,000 a year to $100,000<\/a>\u201d in part because the commission had never voted to approve the $200\/hour fee.<\/p>\n Williams and NewsChannel 5 have kept tabs on Kroll\u2019s (mis)adventures for awhile now<\/a> which involved what some might consider a plethora of conflicts.<\/p>\n He also represents Mayor Tommy Long, who faces accusations of misconduct in an ouster suit. Plus, he\u2019s the personal attorney for Police Chief Bryan Morris and Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor, representing them in a lawsuit against the City of Ridgetop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Until last night when a trio of new commissioners were sworn in, the city\u2019s leadership boasted a far-right flavor resulting in the hiring of \u201cQAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist\u201d Taylor as assistant police chief. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have raided both the Millersville police headquarters and Taylor\u2019s personal residence. And Kroll didn\u2019t just represent Taylor:<\/p>\n In addition, Kroll now admits he used his old law firm\u2019s accounts to generate research reports that have fueled some of Shawn Taylor\u2019s bizarre conspiracy theories \u2014 even as Kroll encouraged the Millersville Board of Commissioners not to hold a special meeting to investigate the city\u2019s so-called conspiracy cop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Gives new meaning to \u201c.7 hours \u2014 Research\u201d right?<\/p>\n Speaking of research, Kroll might have benefitted from a little more on the breach of contract claim he foreshadowed:<\/p>\n Yet, if he wants to claim that the board broke his contract, he may have made a tactical mistake.<\/p>\n \u201cHe should have waited until we passed the motion,\u201d Darnall later said. \u201cHe quit, and the motion was withdrawn \u2014 so we never changed his pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Oops.<\/p>\n Hints of drama, yet hope for future as new city commission takes reins in Millersville, Tennessee<\/a> [NewsChannel 5]<\/p>\n Well, technically the cut hadn’t been finalized yet, but the point remains. The post Lawyer Walks Right Off Job After Fee Cut From $200\/Hour To $15\/Hour appeared first on Above the Law. The first rule of law club is you do not mess with the billable hour. That\u2019s one takeaway after Millersville city attorney Bryant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":98171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bonus-money-low-bonuses-poor-empty-pockets-sad-upset-lawyer-businessman-8NFfcR.jpeg?fit=801%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"