The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto: Incarcerated but not Silenced

by Adidja Palmer

terminated for no legal cause or our intellectual property rights get violated because the Big Man takes advantage of us and justice is out of our price range. Tell me how can we as small business owners ever get justice with the current cost of legal advice? We have already established the range of what a top notch lawyer charges – up to $4,000 USD for a single day’s work. Yes, I have documented proof – $350,000 JMD for a single day’s work. Let me explain something to those of us who like to think, “a big company can’t crush me because I have my lawyer”. Learn this reality. Big companies usually have a big law firm that they work with and a lot of judges are their former partners or classmates. These companies will show up to court with Junior Counsel and two other members of the firm – so that’s about $100,000 per hour that Mr. Big Stuff is paying out of his petty cash account. Then, that big law firm hires another lawyer who they “instruct” for about another $50,000 per hour. Hopefully, you have your calculator because this is how it actually works. You may think that the worst thing is that your one lawyer going up against this powerful group of attorneys but that is the least of it. Why is this point important? Because when you go to the court with your one lawyer against this company,