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Article: Biondi seems to try to bankrupt Prof. Meyer.(Lawrence Biondi and Avis Meyer)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
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- March 1, 2009
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In the last issue of SJR, it was reported that the suit pushed by Saint Louis University President Lawrence Biondi against Prof. Avis Meyer had ended with an out-of-court settlement just before a trial was to begin.
Not so fast, say Biondi's lawyers from the downtown firm of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, who have already billed the university an estimated 8250,000 (one lawyer's hourly rate is $357). They're still filing motions in federal court and trying to squeeze money out of Meyer, who has racked up about $100,000 for his own legal defense.
"I'm broke," said Meyer, a tenured professor who was the faculty adviser to the student newspaper for 34 years. For ...