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I read carefully the article titled " Sophisticated scams abound", published by The Florida Bar News on November 1, 2010.

As to the substance of the article I could only conclude that my colleagues are earger for a fantasy to be true, specially in a dire economy. My mother, who is not a high school graduate, would NOT fall for a silly story from a "client", no matter how handsome those legal fees fly in the brain and make you salivate.

Unless I see the eyeballs of my client, see him or her in person, get my brain to sniff on them as a bonafide real thing or not, that human being or entity is not my client. The need of cash does not drive my initiative. The proportionate steps to reach a comfort zone must be cleared and if it sounds stupid and too good to be true, you are a silly business person and a lawyer.

I want nothing from cyberspace. I do not advertise in it. The only way the unknowns get my e-mail is from The Florida Bar. Now, everyone I do not know, is blocked from my e-mails addresses.

As to the use of the English language by the writers of the article, O My Lord, the official language of the Florida Bar has been slaughtered. If I had written this article for Florida State University College of Law, my liver, my kidneys, my brain and my fingers would have been minced to feed farm animals.

Commanding English as a second language, my stupid skills are distinctively alot better than the skills displayed by the Managing Editor and Senior Editor of your newspaper. Whether it is grammar, puntuation and sintax, I felt the whites of my eyeballs slide upwards while reading the paper. This is my usual expression when someone, who has no excuse, writes for English commanded readers. My goodness, either this article was glued together at the eleventh hour, that is a no-no for a public like us, or these "writers" also compose non-harmonious music.

I bet Don Weidner, The Dean of F.S.U. - Collegue of Law and a lot of folks, who did amassed my brain, like a plastiline untrained legal thinker and future advocate, to make me better, aiming to command a better tool in handling a foreign language, for ding-bats like me. These folks would be happy of my current skills and ashamed of the native of the News, who sound and expose themselves in writing, as true inepts, of the English language.

I am product of Weidner's and his team's best effort. Spanish is my native tongue. I am wonderful especimen who was never thought to be a winner. I even thought it could never happen but it did. However, the cross-out , rewrite, re-read and the unstoppable filters of your paper must command Lucy-In-The-Sky-With-Diamonds. Is that English or delayed beatle-mania ?

I am a member of the Bar since 1989 and never sent anything to the News. I do not care to send three letters per year. Just this one, after twenty-one years.

In all this time, I saw PeterPans and Goldie Hairs eat our budget. We pay for a magazine and newspaper, that could be better produced and written. Mid Year and End Year meeting that could be shaped to
make something of the Bar, instead of the touring the hopefuls leaders to be, who desire to spring on something else, to have hotels and travel frills paid by us and photographed like Kens and Barbies in our Bar publications.

Please forgive me. I am a member of the Bar because it is mandatory to be current in paying my fees, providing some pro-bono hours and earning my CLEs. Other than that, I am just a finacial instrument of being used as a toy. I have done nothing wrong and I am tired of being a member of the Bar's bouncing ball.

What am I today ? A ping pong, a basketball, a soccer ball, a baseball or a football ? What shape do I take ? The same one. Hush up and conform.

What if that is not right ? You guys win anyway.

It is true what Professor Robert Kennedy said, when I was just a drop in the bucket at F.S.U.-College of Law. You belong to a club when you pass the bar exam. Then you pay your fees, get an active license and never feel a sense of belonging. You will always be an orphan.

Laura M. Pruna