I don’t know David Scharf of Morrison Cohen (and whatever happened to poor Singer?), but he’s messing with the wrong guy.  We’re talking Donald Trump, the man who was on the balls of his heels, bankrupt and losing money hand over fist in Atlantic City.  Next thing you know, he’s a TV star and teenagers think bad hair is cool.  And you pick a fight with a guy like this?

Scharf was Trump’s go-to lawyer, and represented Trump in a suit against contractors who over-charged for earth moving work at his Trump National Trump Golf Trump Course in Briar-Trump-Cliff Manor.  But according to The Donald, Scharf thought he was the firm’s ATM, and Trump was displeased.

“I have dealt with a lot of lawyers and paid a lot of legal fees,” Donald Trump told the NYLJ recently. “I have a Ph.D. in legal fees. I know when fees are fair and when they are not.”

And when the Donald says they’re not, he ain’t paying.  So instead, he suing for legal malpractice, and Morrison Cohen is counterclaiming for $470,000 in unpaid legal fees.  According to Anthony Lin of the New York Law Journal, Trump had already paid them $1 million.

But Scharf did win the case for Trump, although Donald says it wasn’t because of the lawyers.  “We won the case because I’m a great witness,” he said.  No one ever suggested Trump didn’t hold himself in high esteem.

Trump was awarded “around $2 million in damages for breach of the earth-moving contract, but only around $40,000 for the infrastructure contract. The judge also awarded Trump around $1.3 million in attorney fees.”

Now let me do the math.  Judge awards $1.3 mil in legal fees.  Trump paid $1 mil.  Morrison Cohen says $470K still due.  That means that the firm is $170k over the award.  Oh, please Donald.  That’s a decent lunch for you and a date.  It’s less than what you get from one hair gel commercial. 

For those of you who are not fortunate enough to be a New Yorker, and are unaware of how tacky Trump Tower looks in real life, you have probably seen him on his glorious alter to himself, The Apprentice.  Does the Donald look like the kind of guy who gets pushed around by some legal beagle?  Does he sit their quietly and let the hired help waste his time?  I think not.

Yet he claims that “Ninety percent of the conversations I had with David Scharf were about legal fees, not the case.”  I’m having a very hard time buying that one.  I just can’t see the Donald quivering in his big leather chair letting Scharf run on ad naseum about the unpaid bills, beating Trump up day after day. 

On the other hand, if Trump can make America belief he’s one of the most important men in the nation, anything is possible.