Edward Otto Keller

So glad to have the opportunity to report my disappointment even 25 years after my juried trial. It still haunts me. I know if I'd had a good attorney (or possibly any other attorney) I would have won my case. Ed took my case and assured me it was a slam dunk. Nothing to prepare... that all cases l...ike this one before me were found in my favor. I asked him to prepare with all of the other reasons the plaintiffs were wrong in blaming me for their imagined loss and the simple solutions they could take other than going to court. But Ed said it was not necessary. All that was needed was the one simple fact of the case and "Victory was in the bag." The plaintiffs attorney on the other hand was uber prepared... and impressively theatrical. He painted a vivid picture of family misery in the event the case was not found in the plaintiffs favor; even to the extent of bringing up their young children's college funds. Such baloney. My attorney, Ed Keller, on the other hand just sat there like a lump. There was so much he could have said in my defense, not to mention that yes! every case in history had gone my way. But not this time. I was (and still am) known as the turning case in this matter. Before I knew it and with hardly a word from my side of the bench, the judge found in favor of the plaintiff and it was over. Ed said sorry, charged me his fee on top of the money the plaintiffs took and that was that. I am a reasonable person. If I was in the wrong I would admit it. But this was just a case of a really bad attorney going up against a really good one.