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Lawyer of the Day: You Can't Kill a Good Lawyer, Even if you Drop Her Out of a Plane

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Forgive my ignorance, but my understanding is that skydiving “accidents” result in fatalities. Always. Jumping out of a freaking plane should not be a survivable circumstance.
But that is apparently not the case. At least not for Kristin Adduci, a Buffalo lawyer at Lewis & Lewis. Fox reports:

The Orleans County sheriff’s office says Kristin M. Adduci was knocked unconscious as she hit the ground around 10 p.m. Saturday at the Pine Hill Airport in Barre, which is about 30 miles east of Rochester.
Rochester Skydivers manager D.C. Cordaro says Adduci overshot her landing area by about 50 feet and came down hard in an adjoining field. Cordaro says the 33-year-old Buffalo lawyer broke her nose but was doing well Sunday, after being treated at a hospital.

She jumped out of a plane at night? Yeah, she’s getting the “daredevil” trait when I create her character in The Sims 3.
After the jump, some more information about Adduci.


There is nothing in her law firm bio that suggests that Adduci has no fear of death:

Upon graduating from Albany Law School in 2000, I began my legal career working in the area of workers’ compensation. The years of experience I gained while defending insurance carriers in workers’ compensation cases was invaluable. However, I felt that a change was needed and I am now dedicated to helping injured workers and their families.
I am very pleased and proud to be working at Lewis and Lewis, P.C. on behalf of injured workers because I understand that work injuries and other unforeseen events can alter a person’s life forever. It is my mission to guide you through the Workers’ Compensation process as smoothly as possible while pursuing every possible legal avenue on your behalf.

I look at a lawyer jumping out of a plane, missing her mark, and living to tell about it as a metaphor for the economic situation many attorneys are facing. Are things going as planned? No. Is there a high probability that you will end up splattered all over the ground? Yes.
But if you keep your wits about you, if you are trained and skilled, you just might escape the whole Great Recession mess with little more than a broken nose and a great story.
Skydiver Plummets to Ground During Failed Jump in Upstate New York [Fox News]

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