“For the benefit of the observers in the courtroom, both of these offenses are very rare; you might not even find the words in a dictionary. Champer...y is the sharing in the proceeds of a lawsuit by an outside party — in this case, Ms. McCarthy’s sponsoring foundation — who has promoted the litigation. Barratry is the offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.“I’m sure many of you have seen advertisements placed by trial lawyers looking for plaintiffs. It might be. Then I saw her speak to the man, and head for the lady's room while he went back to his bar stool. I received a text from her while she was in the bathroom, telling me that with my OK, she wanted to ride with him and that I could meet them at our house.Her text ended with the words, "I'll wait in the bathroom while you decide.'My heart was pounding. This was also something we had not discussed. Take a man home? And I had not even personally met or talked to him to see if I would like him. But I. But I've got to get my hands free first. I go to the open door and turn around and rake the nylon at my wrists up and down across the metal latch in the door-frame. After several agonizing minutes it tears free. I have to admit to myself that your stubbornness and my need to discipline and dominant you drive me crazy. I wonder to myself if that is why we fit together so perfectly? We seem to understand each other so well and yet we have found a way to share our dark side. I find my. "She'll be better off if I'm not around telling her how I would do things," she had shrugged with a slightly guarded smile.James Atherton, had shrugged his own shoulders almost indifferently. "Whatever you think best," he said, before moving on to the work for the day, Cynthia's last day with him.He was not an unkind man, nor an unkind boss, but he was a very busy man."I'm sorry that I didn't have time to buy you a leaving present," he had said awkwardly as she prepared to leave him for the.