Here we go again...another wild Synchronicity ride from the "Storytelling Fairies"...

Nearly finished editing the manuscript for A Judas Kiss For Justice, I'd gotten to a story involving a lawyer who had become famous for handling the Lee Marvin Palimony Case.

Now, I haven't seen a Lee Marvin film in decades, but within 24 hours of editing this scene, just by chance I watched a film, The Professionals, staring Lee Marvin.

What are the odds...

THE LEE MARVIN PALIMONY CASE

 

 

As a founding member of NAPPS (National Association of Professional Process Servers) I began getting legal documents to serve from law offices from many different states. One was the Law Office of Marvin Mitchelson in Los Angeles, California. an attorney to stake out a body shop on the outskirts of Lake Zurich, Illinois.

Mr. Mitchelson had become noted for being he first attorney to argue the merits of a Palimony Case which later became famous in legal circles and known widely as The Lee Marvin Palimony Case.

Lee Marvin was a well known and established movie actor at the time. That said, the one sent to my office was another palimony case that had been filed in California with the respondent being a guy who owned 32 maternity stores in and around the country.

I served the papers on the person named and found at the address they gave me, sent the law office my Affidavit of Service along with my invoice. In about three weeks I received a check, another copy of the same documents I’d already served, along with a letter explaining that they had made a mistake and sent me to the wrong address, and would I serve the papers again, this time to the right person at the new address.

I did, with no problem whatsoever, I sent them another invoice and again sent a check. Now, in my world, attorney Marvin Mitchelson is a legal rock star and I seriously thought of not cashing the check and instead framed it and hung the check from the Law Office of Marvin Mitchelson in my office.

An attorney friend saw the check and suggested cashing it after making a photocopy and hanging that on my wall.

I followed his advice, but I wish I hadn’t—somehow I lost the photocopy and now all I have is a memory.

Some things…many things are worth much more than money.

Marvin Mitchelson had reached the pinnacle of his/our profession as a famous palimony lawyer and his firm conducted business all over the world—with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.