RATS: Legally Blind Mice

By Erlinda Dominguez

A Grownup Fairy Tale About Three Rodent Lawyers and Their Comical Misadventures in the Legal World. A whimsical portrayal of law practice in Personal Injury with hilarious illustrations of dramas in and out of the courtroom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ERLINDA DOMINGUEZ
• Release date: Dec 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9780692486344

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RATS

(Legally Blind Mice)

Erlinda Dominguez

RATS:

Legally Blind Mice

Copyright © 2014 by Erlinda Dominguez

All rights reserved.

Book design and printing by Falcon Books

San Ramon, California

ISBN: 978-0-692-48634-4 (ebook)

www.ErlindaDominguezAttorney.com

Except for brief quotes used in reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced by any means without the written permission of the author.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dedication

To all who think of me so kindly;

To all who have taken the time to give my book(s) excellent reviews, wherever they may be even if we never met;

To all who support the Rule of Law.

Aloha,

The Author

Foreword

Rats: Legally Blind Mice, the latest book from Attorney and Author Erlinda Dominguez, is a biting, extremely sharp legal satire. In this novella, Author Dominguez lays bare the misdeeds of the Trio, or Triumvirate as they prefer to be called, three Rodents who are practicing attorneys in the field of personal injury. In the style of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Ms. Dominguez creates a fantasy world which parodies the realities of life in the Justice System, as the three charlatan attorneys, Mr. Doe, Mr. User and Mr. Mad, later joined by a notorious lady Rat, Judge Bull, struggle to live lifestyles of the rich and famous and fail miserably. Rats is a hilarious but ultimately incisive exposé of the shenanigans carried out by an egotistical, scheming, money-mad and incompetent threesome of the genus Rattus. The humorous illustrations add to the clever portrayal of a ‘brave new world,’ the world of Rats. Any resemblance to Rats living or dead is purely coincidental.

Roberta Tennant, M.A.

Editor-in-Chief

Falcon Books

Preface

During my law practice in Hawaii, I would sometimes write short stories to break the monotony of courtrooms and legal problems. My friends enjoyed reading them. That was before my personal legal battles as I chronicled in my book, Twice Upon a Court. My readers asked for more books that I would author. I then remembered my short stories. I picked one, the Rats Fairytale, to publish. This book has a melancholy tone which is a necessary background, but most parts will make the reader laugh. Any resemblance to events or humans is coincidental, in fact, irrelevant. There is simply no question, humans are humans and rats are rats.

—Author

Contents

The Past

The Present

The First Business Meeting

The Turning Point

The Law Corporation

The Law Practice Begins

First Client?

Slip and Fall

Client vs. City

Dump Truck Crash

The Demand

Workers’ Compensation

To Las Vegas

The Court Hearing

Sweethearts, Goodbye

Trial Day Came

Jail and Chamber

A Blissful End

Rats’ National Anthem

THE PAST

A very long time ago, millenniums beyond the stone age, all animals were different then.

Rodents ruled the world. They were extremely bulky and tall. Their intelligence equaled their weight. The word Rat was not yet coined.

In size and mind, the rodents competed with the hippopotamus called Hippo for short. They shared a common hobby of wallowing in the mud at sunset.

At summer time, the Tasmanian kangaroos taught them to leap. This made the rodents skilled in jumping from one spot to another without knowing why.

During day, the rodents built their mansions. At night, they played games of hide and seek. This maximized their finesse in concealing trade secrets and practices.

Prolific, proficient and cunning, the rodents devoured their own kind until they invented the word civility.

They didn’t exactly know what it meant. But it sounded glamorous. Hypocrisy and bigotry were not in their dictionary.

Thus, rodents stopped eating their own flesh. Such an act was viciously uncivilized in a rodents’