Adler says Intelius had an ad out on the name of Chesley Sullenberger in 2009.
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Ohio lawyer Stanley Chesley is rich, politically powerful, and married to a federal judge.
The problem with that simplistic approach is Mr. Chesley was not in the room.
Chesley maintains he was a mere hired gun, involved in the case only to lead the settlement negotiations.
Chesley probably regrets getting involved in the Kentucky fen-phen case now, but he was eager enough back in 1999.
Chesley might argue he was a sort of special-teams player, brought in to negotiate a better settlement with AHP.
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The plaintiffs in that case make similar allegations that Chesley had failed to disclose how the funds were divided.
To convince them, Helmers distributed a letter he got from Chesley explaining how the court had authorized a second round of payments.
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But Chesley managed to delay his day of reckoning by splitting the Bar Association action against him off from the other lawyers.
Then, with a deft series of procedural moves Chesley got his case combined with the earlier one, over the objections of the original lawyers.
Branson says he'd gladly hire Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger, the U.S. Airways pilot who successfully crash-landed his plane in the Hudson River in January.
"It's sort of Jack's way or the highway, " said Rick Chesley, a bankruptcy lawyer at DLA Piper who has squared off against Mr. Butler in other cases.
Earlier Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an expansive guest list of her own, including hero-U.S. Airways pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and several other crew members of flight 1549.
The effect is, at first glance, quite small -- Beshore cited his colleague Steven Chesley's comparison of this effect to the force you feel when you hold grapes in your hand.
As superlawyer Stanley Chesley learned last year in a case involving fraudulent fen-phen claims, attorneys of record, like doctors signing off on a chart, bear responsibility for whatever happens later.
In a filing released earlier this week, and reported yesterday by the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Bar Association said Chesley is facing disciplinary proceedings over his role in the case.
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In fact all of the money was supposed to be distributed immediately, said Louisville attorney Angela Ford, who is suing Chesley and the other three lawyers on behalf of 420 fen-phen claimants.
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"Cash is the currency when you're settling creditor claims because they're really not equipped to run a business, " said Rick Chesley, co-chair of law firm DLA Piper's restructuring practice who isn't involved in the situation.
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Of course, we should mention airline pilot Chesley Burnett Sullenberger , whose incredible competence under pressure stood in stark contrast to a crumbling society as he saved the lives of 155 people in January of 2009.
Though Chesley argued otherwise, the commissioner found he represented all the plaintiffs (as any law school grad should have understood, let alone the husband of a federal judge, counsel of record means, well, counsel of record).
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We can start in the general vicinity of our cleavage, with that serene warm-chest feeling that washes over us when we're moved by an extraordinary act or by a person of great virtue (whether it's Nelson Mandela, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, or the amazing woman who runs your local soup kitchen).
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