The Only Crime: Sonnenschein Partner Paul Glad Can Never Eat Girl Scout Cookies Again

We have an update on former Lawyer of the Day and Sonnenschein San Francisco partner Paul Glad. Glad was sued earlier this year by a Girl Scout and her mother after running into them with his Lexus.

We wrote in June:

According to the San Mateo County Times, [Glad] had stopped to pick up some delicious Girl Scout cookies. But in his excitement to get his Samoa and Thin Mint fix, he neglected to shift his car into park. His Lexus then rolled into the cookie table. The car pinned Girl Scout mother, Holly Rogers, to a wall, causing her to lose her leg. Her daughter, then 6, suffered multiple leg fractures.

Did we mention that Glad had parked in a disabled spot? And that he was on prescription painkiller OxyContin on the day of the accident?

Glad got some pain relief this week…


He will not face criminal charges. From the San Jose Mercury-News:

“We couldn’t prove that (intoxication) was what caused him to lose control of the vehicle,” Wagstaffe said.

Glad told police that he had taken the painkiller OxyContin earlier on the day of the crash. But investigators determined the amount of the drug in Glad’s system was not enough to impair his driving. Human error seems the more likely culprit, authorities said.

Glad still has the civil suit to contend with. The Girl Scout family is seeking “unspecified damages.” Apparently, the fact that Glad can never eat another Girl Scout cookie without thinking about this terrible accident is not punishment enough.

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No criminal charges for San Mateo attorney who drove into Girl Scouts [San Jose Mercury News]
No Charges for Sonnenschein Partner Whose Car Hit Girl Scouts [The Recorder]

Earlier: Lawyer of the Day: Paul Glad

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