>I'm surprised you don't have any contingency-fee type arrangements >there. It's against the law. I think, in the overall scheme of things, that's probably a good thing. It's not generally a very litigious society, but with the beast to the south's influence, it probably would be. Just the other day, a hairdresser in a nearby city won an award of 384,000 dollars from a the Culligan water company because there was a fly in his bottled water and he 'lost his sense of humour' and suffered panic attacks. THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!! paul ########## Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Kingsville, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html