FOE Family First Chapter 24 Professional Ethics
The full name of the American Teachers Union is the American Federation of Teachers. This member union was founded in Chicago in 1916. After decades of development, it has now become a behemoth with millions of members and branches in every city in the United States.
Like unions in other industries, teachers' unions will do their best to help their members fight for the various benefits they deserve, put forward various demands, and provide some necessary consultation and guidance.
Of course, enjoying rights comes at a price, and in America, everything is a transaction.
The price union members have to pay for enjoying meticulous care is to give up their own political stance and leave the issue to the union to decide.
The American Teachers Union is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party. Or to be more specific, today's union leaders are staunch supporters of the Democratic Party. In every general election, the teachers union donates large sums of political donations to the Democratic camp.
However, for most ordinary teachers in rural cities, it doesn't matter which party comes to power. Anyway, those bigwigs will only win over the top leaders of the union and will not travel all the way to the countryside to listen to their voices.
As long as they can be guaranteed annual salary increases and retire peacefully with a salary, it doesn’t matter whether the country is ruled by a donkey or an elephant, because they are not fucking human beings anyway.
"Ms. Melonie Bianconi, as a senior lawyer at the law firm that your union has cooperated with for many years, I have made it very clear to you last time. As far as we know, your private photos have not been leaked to the public. You said that he deceived you into taking certain addictive prescription drugs during the relationship, but there is not enough evidence. The only reason you can sue him is that he assaulted you without reason and blackmailed you. If you are going to call the police with this reason, I can transfer you to the police for the follow-up process. But you are worried that he will retaliate and publish all the photos to the public, causing damage to your personal reputation, so I can't do anything." In the legal consultation room, Andy Nelson, a partner of the contract firm of the teachers' union, was dressed in a suit and tie, with a sympathetic expression, but he spread his hands weakly towards Melonie who was sitting opposite him:
"Or, are you willing to continue to sit in front of me in silence, without saying a word, for a full twenty minutes?"
Teachers' unions usually sign cooperation agreements with the best local law firms, which send a group of lawyers to the union headquarters twice a week to provide corresponding legal advice to union members. Because this type of consultation can no longer be charged according to the normal time-based billing method when receiving clients, the lawyers providing the consultation only give each consultant twenty minutes.
Unless the consultation initiated by the teacher can make the unions and lawyers sensitive to the opportunity to bite off a large piece of oil from governments at all levels, turning them into bloodthirsty vultures, most of the time, law firms will privately ask members to resolve a consultant within five minutes and try to avoid wasting time on such ineffective consultations.
The issues that the beautiful woman named Melonie was talking about at the moment made Andy Nelson not even want to use his brain. If it were not for the contract with the teachers' union, the law firm could not use trainee lawyers to provide consultations, and there must be partner-level lawyers present. He would not have rushed over to listen to a woman talk about such trivial matters.
The ex-boyfriend took photos of her many years ago and now blackmails and beats her. The woman is worried that if she calls the police, her ex-boyfriend will spread the photos , causing her to be ruined here and unable to work in any school again.
Regarding this case, he had given the other party a very clear answer last time. She only needed to pay enough money and hire an elite lawyer like him to take over the case. She would be able to teach the ex-boyfriend a lesson, and all the photos and negatives would be recovered before the other party spread them.
But the prerequisite is that she needs to go to a law firm instead of the teachers' union, and she needs to hand herself a check that can be withdrawn at any time and with a face value of no less than 500 yuan as consultation fee, instead of handing herself the union membership certificate in front of her for free legal consultation.
"Sir, I... I don't want to call the police because he... I know him, he will definitely do that." Melanie sat opposite lawyer Andy, holding a coffee cup, and said in a depressed tone.
Andy Nelson sighed and was about to use the excuse of going to the restroom to kill time when the door outside was pushed open and his assistant walked in: "Mr. Nelson, the office called and asked you to get information about a local teacher named Hugh Spade from the union management after you finish consulting with the union."
When Melonie heard the name Hugh Spade, her hands trembled and the coffee cup fell to the floor. She apologized repeatedly and frantically rummaged through the tissues in her purse to wipe the coffee stains.
Andy Nelson looked at Melonie for a moment, then looked at his assistant and asked, "What happened?"
"This teacher named Hugh Spade illegally sold addictive prescription drugs, a total of 150 pills, which means he violated the Controlled Substances Act." The assistant looked at the call records in his hand and said to his boss.
Andy Nelson frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "What does this have to do with the law firm? I said that the law firm can't take all the bad jobs. We are the best law firm in the local area, not a street vendor soliciting business!"
"According to the police, the prescription drugs he had flowed into Holy Cross High School . Our employer, the Holy Cross High School Parent Committee, is extremely dissatisfied with this. They cannot deal with the underage high school student who bought his drugs and distributed them to Holy Cross High School for free, but they hope to publicly execute this guy named Hugh Spade to make one thing clear to potential drug dealers. They can sell pills in other crappy high schools, but if they dare to go to Holy Cross High School, they will know the difference between public and private schools." The assistant said meaningfully, "This is the employer's request."
Andy Nelson glanced at Melonie, then hesitated for a moment before nodding to his assistant: "Okay, I'll find out about the situation. After all, the employer comes first."
The assistant agreed, walked out and closed the door again.
After Melonie cleaned up the stain and made it right again, Andy Nelson smiled and said, "Miss, do you know Hugh Spade? Or, he is your ex-boyfriend. I noticed that you overreacted a little when you heard this name just now."
“…” Melonie opened her mouth, but finally just nodded slightly, her face a little panicked.
Andy Nelson stared at Melonie's expression sharply. He knew the situation of the woman in front of him very well, but he always felt that the panic she showed about her ex-boyfriend was a little fake. This was his professional intuition developed over many years as a lawyer. This woman named Melonie was probably not afraid of her ex-boyfriend. Everything she showed at this time might make others believe that she was extremely afraid of her ex-boyfriend, such as hearing his name and being so scared that she dropped the coffee cup in her hand. This reaction was too exaggerated.
When France surrendered, the citizens of Paris probably didn't scare her like this.
But it doesn’t matter, whether she is real or fake, it doesn’t matter now. The lawyer doesn’t care about truth or fake, he only cares about whether he can help the employer solve the problem.
Andy Nelson's expression changed from rigid to lively, and he showed a bright smile: "Miss, it seems that before I go to the union leader to find out the situation, I can definitely get to know Mr. Hugh Spade here."
"But, sir, my consultation time is almost up." Melanie showed her watch and reminded Andy Nelson.
Andy Nelson stood up and made Melonie another cup of coffee, placed it next to her, then sat back in his seat and said leisurely:
"No, I have the right to extend the consultation time. As long as the lawyer feels it is necessary, this consultation time can be extended indefinitely, so don't worry about the time. Have a cup of coffee to calm down, then think carefully and talk to me about his past, even those that you think are private. I can guarantee that if you tell me some information that interests me, I can help you get back the privacy that may be leaked at any time. I am a lawyer with professional ethics."
Melonie lowered her head and laughed at herself: "Do I look like someone who can afford to pay a lot of money for your professional ethics?"
Andy Nelson picked up the throat lozenge on the table, unwrapped it and put one in his mouth, relieving the discomfort in his throat caused by speaking thousands of words every day:
"Don't worry, miss. You should have heard that the wealthy people in the Holy Cross High School Parents' Committee have already paid for my professional ethics. I can help them solve Hugh Spade's problem and help you get rid of your nightmare. You just need to talk to me. Everything is to satisfy the employer."
