Folks, most partners at your average local CPA firm could work an entire year on one account and still not bill what Vandale Thomas billed to the NOLA traffic court at a mere $80/hour in 2010. My $175/hour professional opinion is Vandale has lots of ‘splaining to do.
All these revelations coming from the various NOLA courthouses surprise me not one bit as low-level employees have evidently been cut while the judges and their cronies continue to live large and in charge. I’ve been hearing rumblings of massively dissatisfied employees for over a year now. I think the leakers are getting a good bit of satisfaction these days.
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely has done a good bit of work on the behavioral economic concept of revenge. The judges at the CDCs, Muni and Traffic courts would do well to bone up on the subject IMHO.
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