Seeking legal assistance

This is an open letter to the legal community from whom I am
soliciting help.  My goal is to find the most reputable and effective
agency that deals with matters of defamation of character issues,
wrongful termination, and corporate unethical behavior issues.

I believe that an insurance agency and a hiring manager have committed
an act of defamation of character in terminating my contract with
them.

I am a software development professional who was hired as a
J2EE/Websphere support person for a proof-of-concept project.  The
project was redundantly, micro-managed so that a supervisory
individual would monitor progress within a 24-hour workday period. 
Despite the intense scrutiny of activity the quality of management
activity and decision-making was and is highly debatable.

On Saturday, October 18, 2003, I received a termination notice from my
contract employment agency.

The letter states, "I asked her [the staffing manager] if she could
provide me with any specifics as to why this decision was made.  The
only information she was able to provide was the hiring manager
indicated he felt you [b]oversold youself[/b] in the interview
process.

She did indicate Aetna would consider you for future positions just
not at this level."

First, I am not a fraud and the work I was assigned was largely
menial.  However menial, the work was obfuscated by multiple competing
political interests in the project so that faulty specifications and
conflicting technical viewpoints belligerently went uncorrected.  I am
guilty of nothing more than attempting to avoid the political fray.

While hiring managers are certainly entitled to their own opinions, at
Aetna, some evidence exists that attacking contractor's has become an
ingrown, cultural phenomenon that might be considered a form of sport
by management.  The abuse of contract labor may be going unreported
because contract labor have no due process in contending harmful
claims that corporate employees can then ignore or engage in
‘invisible' malicious behavior with.

Secondly, at no point during my employment was notified that such an
assertion existed.  I was offered no corporate opportunity to remedy
the misunderstanding then nor now.

Third, the Aetna/Volt staffing organization seems to feel that
contractors whose reputations and credentials are being impugned
without their knowledge is acceptable corporate behavior. 
Furthermore, they seem to believe that Aetna's right to terminate
contracts for any reason at any time include unethical and/or illegal
reasons.

Fourth, the defamation of character within Aetna was a smear
transmitted to my agency who thankfully reported it to me before it
went uncorrected. In other words, Aetna engaged in a whisper campaign.
 It is impossible for me to know if Aetna shares these disparaging
remarks with all their vendors in ‘black-balling fashion' or with just
the immediate employer.

Fifth, Aetna's staffing organization refers to some kind of registry
scheme by which they secretly determine what jobs individuals will be
allowed to interview for thereby abridging their right to
self-improvement and Aetna's ability to allow managers to discover
talent on their own criteria.  It also interfers with an individual's
pursuit of happiness in bettering their own life.  I don't Aetna's
staffing departments have that right based on innuendo.

Sixth, Aetna is a company who is empowered to deliver caring service
to its constituency yet is perfectly comfortable with releasing
contractors just prior to a holiday season when work is difficult to
come by due to the holiday schedules (my contract was due to expire in
January).  And, to add insult to injury, they are willing to release
accused contractors without so much as a hearing  or fair notice - an
act that amounts to a death penalty for software professionals whose
industry is already in turmoil.  As a contractor, I find this
particularly cruel and unusual.

Isn't this illegal corporate behavior and is any reputable firm in the
legal community willing to explore legal remedies for my misfortune.

Law firms who believe they can help me can send me an email at
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