Legal Ethics & Clients' Rights: Casualties Of Asbestos Litigation?

photo-4icTendiche consequences of greed are nothing new, and justice is often poetic. In Greek mythology, for example, the person who disregarded the gods' directives against avarice suffered a particularly horrid penalty. He was cursed so that "no abundance shall ever satisfy him," so that he would "starve in the very act of devouring food." The greedy mortal, who could never obtain enough money to satisfy his needs, "turned upon his own body and devoured it until he killed himself." See Edith Hamilton, MYTHOLOGY, at 421-22 (1998).