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Complaint Review: James N. Riley - Clarksburg West Virginia
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James N. Riley
400 W Main Street Clarksburg, 26301 West Virginia, USA
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James N. Riley McNeer, Highland, McMunn & Varner LC - More like comedic actor John C. Reilly Clarksburg West Virginia
Attorney James N. Riley? More like comedic actor John C. Reilly.
James N. Riley of the Clarksburg, West Virginia law firm of McNeer, Highland, McMunn & Varner LC seems to think he can get away with the same, inappropriate twisting and misrepresentation of facts that he's always done simply because he's been doing it for so long. Same as John C. Reilly, he of the inappropriate and uncomfortably twisted roles in movies like "Talledega Nights," "Step Brothers" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" - among others.
Reilly the actor is often uncomfortably funny. Riley the attorney is uncomfortably annoying. He takes great relish in taking facts out of context and blowing up insignificant details trying to make them seem crucial. But what really gets annoyingly uncomfortable is when he takes ordinary, everyday behavior and twists it to seem somehow wrong. Come to think of it, Riley the attorney kind of morphs into Reilly the actor when you imagine how he does his job. Imagine Riley the attorney questioning someone about an everyday, ordinary thing, like brushing teeth. Imagine the questioning at a deposition or at a trial where he's trying to twist and turn and question every nuance about brushing teeth: "Tell me, how many times a day do you brush? Really? Why only twice? Do you think that's enough? Shouldn't you brush after every meal? And how many brush strokes? Well why don't you know how many? How long does it take you? You don't know that, either? Why not? Don't you think that's important to know these kinds of things? What kind of toothpaste do you use? Why? Are you getting a kickback on that? (Do you use coupons?) Do you think that's an ethical thing to do?" Could sound like a dialogue John C. Reilly would have in a movie.
But you can see how it would go. Under a lawyer like Big Jim Riley's accusatory questioning, almost any ordinary thing can be made to seem criminal. And that's the crux of it. Stretching the truth is not lawyering' it's stretching the truth. And misrepresenting facts is not lawyering; it's misrepresentation of facts. It's malpractice.
Sound familiar Big Jim?
