Clay Wire and Jason Wesoky – The Contract Dispute with a “Mean Girls” Plot

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Text messages, complete with poop emojis, revealed that a charter school’s board members targeted the executive director because they just didn’t like her. “It was like ‘Mean Girls,’” recalls Jason Wesoky, who, with colleague Clay Wire, represented the director.

Tune into this case breakdown with host Keith Fuicelli as Jason and Clay describe how they framed the contract dispute as a set-up by board members hoping to boot their client off the job. In the end, she won a jury verdict of about $950,000.

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Episode Snapshot

• When he realized that he was making more as a bartender than he would as a political scientist or journalist, Clay turned to law school.
• Jason grew up in the legal world and went to college knowing he wanted to be a lawyer.
• Clay and Jason represented the executive director of a Colorado charter school when a new board refused to honor her contract.
• Because the team couldn’t bring tort claims against a governmental entity, they focused on a contract claim for economic damages through the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act.
• Their client used the state’s social security replacement for public employees to draw on her retirement and then return to work under the contract. The defense argued that their client had, in fact, retired and that she wasn’t honoring her contract.
• Text messages provided through the Colorado Open Records Act revealed the real story: that board leaders targeted their client because they didn’t like her.
• Clay and Jason were also helped by a former board member who had written a long email to the rest of the board, detailing problems he saw with how they treated their client. At trial, the board president testified that she had only “skimmed” the email.
• At closing, the team focused on showing how the board’s bad decisions were due to bad advice from their lawyer.
• Clay’s final line of questioning to the board attorney elicited the attorney’s personal interest in a good outcome – for him.

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