Lawyer of the Day: Larry Wilder
Our Lawyer of the Day is appropriately named. From the sound of this story, this Indiana lawyer could probably hold down the name Larry Wildest.
The photo to the right is not a stock photo. That’s Wilder on Wednesday morning after a raucous night on the town. From the Courier-Journal:
Conrad Embry, 80, the neighbor who called police, saw his garbage can on its side and someone lying in it when he took is dog out for a walk about 7 a.m.“If I’d known it was Larry Wilder, I wouldn’t have called the police,” Embry said. He said Wilder “has been a wonderful neighbor.”
In an interview Thursday, Wilder acknowledged he went out Tuesday night with a group of friends to celebrate after one of them passed a real-estate licensing exam, and that he had been drinking.
Passing a test is good, but going into real estate these days is a bit challenging. No wonder they got smashed. So how did Wilder get home and end up in the trash can?
After dinner in Louisville, [Wilder] said, the group went to Fourth Street Live.“I was not driving,” Wilder said. “It’s a private matter, made public because I am a public person.”
Wilder said he was driven home in a client’s limousine.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Wilder was rocking a limo. He’s a high roller. According to the News Tribune, Wilder is quite the hotshot attorney in his Indiana town:
Wilder represents the Jeffersonville City Council and has acted as the city’s attorney on several high profile cases, including the legal wrangling regarding the city’s annexation.He recently presented arguments before the Indiana Court of Appeals in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against Jeffersonville over a ban on sex offenders in city parks.
In 2008, he was the highest paid of Jeffersonville’s six city attorneys, receiving $107,000 in tax dollars. That’s four times more than the next highest-paid city attorney.
With those salaries, it seems like the other Jeffersonville city attorneys would be the ones forced to sleep in trash cans.
Jeff council lawyer found in trash can [Louisville Courier-Journal]
Photo [News and Tribune]
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Comments
FIRST!!!!!!
Wow. $27k to be a city attorney? That's rough.
Are you kidding? With $27K in Can-tucky, you can afford at least 10,000 sq ft of wife.
Indiana atty, not KY
... we lost Doug.
That's a remarkably clean trash can. At least he the good judgment to pick one free of decomposing meximelts.
Larry, we must party...
This guy's stock just went way up.
Kash - Jeffersonville is in the southern part of Indiana, NOT Kentucky. It isn't far from Louisville, but it is in Indiana. That's why the excerpt from the article is talking about the Indiana Court of Appeals. Also, hence the title of the email I sent ATL with the links to the two newspapers' websites - "Lawyer for Jeffersonville, Indiana City Council Falls Asleep Drunk and Headfirst in Neighbor's Trash Can".
Just a fantastic story to end the week on. Hopefully, I end up in a trash can by morning.
So we go from lawyers figuratively getting tossed in the trash to LITERALLY ending up in the trash. Nice.
thank you for setting the record straight, 4 and 9!
-- kentuckian in exile
In my high school lots of guys got drunk and slept in trash cans, it was no big deal
Slow news day
12 - If i were from KY, I think I'd want to claim this guy. He seems like a total badass!
- 9
Guys in my high school used to try to imitate much-beloved but recently-absent comment-post memes -- but get it not quite right -- all the time, it was no big deal.
Larry, Indiana, Larry Indiana, Larry, Indiana,
Let me say it once again.
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That's the lawyer that "knew me when."
If you'd like to have a logical explanation
How I happened on this elegant syncopation,
I will say without a moment of hesitation
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That can light my face.
Larry, Indiana,
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Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but--
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2,
27k isn't bad for a part time gig. If this guy made 107k off the city last year and maintained a private practice, I'm sure the other city attorneys have their own private practices. That 107k was likely because of the annexation and ACLU cases and likely wasn't a base salary. The other attorneys probably didn't work on anything important
Guys in my high school used to get drunk and pass out in garbage cans after celebrating a friend's passing his real-estate licensing exam all the time, it was no big deal.
I should have done a little more digging before my last post (18). All of Jeffersonville's attorneys are contracted by the city or specific departments and maintain private practices.
http://www.cityofjeff.net/Legal/LegalMain.htm
"Wilder acknowledged he went out Tuesday night with a group of friends to celebrate after one of them passed a real-estate licensing exam, and that he had been drinking." HAD BEEN DRINKING?
Now that is the understatement of the decade.
That must have one hard exam, or Wilder has one mean drinking problem--I mean, now much further did Wilder have to walk or crawl to his own front door, as opposed to crawling into his neighbor's trash can?
DIDN'T HE KNOW THAT IT WAS GARBAGE DAY!!!!!!!!
PS: I live in down town SF and this is the mildest thing I might see on a typical morning--at least he has his pants on...
Kash and poster #2 need to learn how to read. "[R]eceiving $107,000 in tax dollars" doesn't mean that's all he earned as an attorney, only what he earned representing the city. The same goes for others representing the city. They are in private practice. Geez!
Now that is what I call one awesome lawyer of the day post.
Way to go Kash!
He is sooooo lucky ATL go ahold of this on a Friday afternoon.....
Nice - reminds me of the movie "The Hangover." Well done my friend.
How does one "rock" the limo?
26
If you had a life or friends you would probably recognize a common slang term used by a large number of Americans. Why don't you go lick some yarbles?
26,
The same way I'm rockin' a bad-ass mullet right now.
Meh...whatever. Been there, done that.
i've ended up drunk and home but unable to get in the front door (too many locks). i usually stumble ungracefully over to tj's place and do things for him and his roommate, happily, in order to sleep there. i'd write longer but they have some friends over and just called. i get to see how a train gets run on me tonight!
If you were a cop, which would you do first: take a picture, or pull the guy out to see if he's alive?
leave Roxy alone! The woman is a fine author, damn talented wordsmith, so skilled at telling the readers how to feel, and overall a real lady.
Huzzah!
Quote from the newspaper's comments:
"I have heard community chatter that he may have been placed in the garbage can by someone."
No surprise. Think about what happened to your college friends who had the misfortune to pass out while others were drunk but still functional.
Wow. He must've really been trashed.
$107,000? Wow! Wilder is a baller. That's like 5% of the entire GDP of Kentucky.
34-I love you. Anyways....the guy got drunk and passed out in the limo, in which his friends were probably also riding. When they got to Wilder's house...as a joke, they probably stuck him in the trash can put out by the neighbor, so he'd wake up trashed. Cruel, but they were shitfaced too. In high school, we girls used to do shit like that all the time --- like put makeup and nail polish on guys when they were sleeping it off --- and it was no big deal. One guy, we dragged over to the lawn of a neighboring church which had 6:30 am mass. D'oh.
31--
Taser him, beat him with a baton, take a picture and book him (in that particular order).
Miranda and excessive force is only "theory" or "law school fiction."
34...
That is funny man...You said "trashed" because he was in a "trash" can....Very clever....
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39,
Are you with the RIAA?
Here lies Larry Wilder . . . and why not?
Chicos en mi escuela secundaria utiliza para emborracharse y pasar en botes de basura después de la celebración de un amigo que pasa su licencia de bienes raíces examen todo el tiempo, no fue gran cosa.
42 FTW (and I don't even read Spanish)
Nicely done, 17.
Love the shoes. ROFL
Being a Yankee, I have always heard about people called White Trash. I thought that that was just a mean nickname for poor uneducated caucasians in the south. I stand corrected.
"four officers responded to the call received just before 7 a.m. and found the contents of the trash can scattered with Wilder inside.... the photo apparently was taken by one of the officers with the officer's personal cell phone," - Article
"The real story here should be why a Jeff Police officer inexplicably chose to humiliate a citizen. If it were a crime scene, that would be one thing, but no crime was committed.... Yeah, the picture is funny at first blush, but regular citizens should be outraged that a city cop would target someone like this." - Commentator
I finally understand why there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in one's trash. Thank you Mr. Wilder.
47 is right. Really, they could have just put him in his house, told him he was embarrassing himself and that luckily no one was around to see it and moved on. Instead they take a picture and tell the press.
What's the big deal? This is just a photo of a lawyer in his natural habitat. It's more like a National Geographic photo.
Monday morning and you still haven't fixed the Kentucky/Indiana mistake.
ATL would be so much better if it had some decent editing
Number 17....YOU ROCK!! It took me a minute to figure out which song you were doing. Then I remembered I was in a production of "The Music Man" when I was in high school. GREAT TUNE!! You made me laugh!!
At least and finally some Jeffersonville "lawyer", respectively "officer of the court" had the courage to openly display that they associate themselves with trash, LOL.