This is a little different, and is of no particular political interest, but I must register my delight upon reading this story (Shasha prevails at ‘last trial’) in the New London Day.
Gil is no longer practicing, for reasons that are fairly murky, as the article states, but whatever the reason, he’s gone out in style:
Veteran attorney Gilbert Shasha, who retired from practicing law eight months ago and surrendered his license after more than 40 years, was back in court this week, representing himself against a fraud claim brought by another local lawyer.
Shasha’s voice broke as he told the jury it would be his last trial, and after about two hours of deliberating Wednesday, the six-member panel found in his favor, delivering him a victory with which to cap his courtroom career.
Gil was being sued by a lawyer who claimed that Gil and a client had reneged on an agreement not to lien or convey the client’s home. The lawyer, John Asselin-Connolly, was suing a former client for a fee.
Now, I could have saved that lawyer a lot of money. It was not a good idea to sue Gil. Gil never heard of a case that didn’t belong in front of a jury, and there wasn’t much he couldn’t talk a jury into doing. We can only be thankful he never used his powers to do evil.
And in his final case, he ran true to form. He did no evil. I won’t express my opinion of his opponent, but I’ll simply reproduce the following from the Day:
Shasha said he was relieved and grateful to the jury and that he hopes other divorce clients Asselin-Connolly has sued would get courage from this case.
”A person comes to him in a turmoil in a divorce case and he considers that a commercial opportunity,” he said of Asselin-Connolly during closing arguments. “It’s like selling socks to him.”
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