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Direwolf posted:Rent related issue. First lesson of lawyering: What does the lease say about who owes what?
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Incredulous Red posted:First lesson of lawyering: Lease doesn't lay out terms of who pays what rent, just says we're both liable. We made a separate agreement to pay the 850/950 rent split.
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Feces Starship posted:They might have been other attorneys, or clerks if the attorney was with a firm. I cannot imagine that a company would bother sending muscle to intimidate a kid suing them in small claims court.
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Feb 2, 2011 07:17
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ShadowHawk posted:On that note, how many attorneys look like huge neckless goons? i am literally shaped like one of the mooninites and if you get back to me in a year i'll qualify
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Feb 2, 2011 07:20
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ShadowHawk posted:On that note, how many attorneys look like huge neckless goons? I can think of at least two goons that qualify; three if you count my headshot (which looks like I have no neck). If you just are limiting in general to attorneys and not specifically goons --- lots.
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Feb 2, 2011 07:42
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ShadowHawk posted:On that note, how many attorneys look like huge neckless goons? You realise that reality is not a hollywood tv show and doesn't cast people into jobs due to physical stereotype?
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Feb 2, 2011 10:49
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Alchenar posted:You realise that reality is not a hollywood tv show and doesn't cast people into jobs due to physical stereotype? Actually there is a strong correlation between physical appearance and attributes and job. You don't see many short, soft spoken, and ugly lawyers for example because success at influencing people (e.g. the jury) is directly correlated.
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Feb 2, 2011 10:55
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baquerd posted:Actually there is a strong correlation between physical appearance and attributes and job. You don't see many short, soft spoken, and ugly lawyers for example because success at influencing people (e.g. the jury) is directly correlated. I don't know what you're talking about -- I see lots of short, soft spoken, ugly lawyers.
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Feb 2, 2011 11:28
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SWATJester posted:I don't know what you're talking about -- I see lots of short, soft spoken, ugly lawyers. Serving as a primary trial lawyer?
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Feb 2, 2011 11:30
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baquerd posted:Serving as a primary trial lawyer? Yes, very often.
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Feb 2, 2011 12:25
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So is your claim that a quiet, fat, not pleasing to look at lawyer is just as good at swaying a jury or that they practice anyway despite their disadvantage?
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Feb 2, 2011 12:33
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baquerd posted:So is your claim that a quiet, fat, not pleasing to look at lawyer is just as good at swaying a jury or that they practice anyway despite their disadvantage? no but I would claim that the profession is not some hyper-efficient free market system where any physical characteristic constituting a vocational disadvantage results in instant disintegration of the host Jesus Christ are we really debating whether some lawyers are big and some are small? YES IS THE ANSWER
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Feb 2, 2011 13:28
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baquerd posted:So is your claim that a quiet, fat, not pleasing to look at lawyer is just as good at swaying a jury or that they practice anyway despite their disadvantage? You're the one who is claiming that ugly lawyers rarely serve as primary counsel at trial, you come up with some data other than your armchair theorizing. Because we can go back and forth all day just relying on our personal experiences, but that would just be anecdotes. Are you a lawyer? How often do you see actual trial lawyers doing their thing in court? From my experience attending court, I've seen attorneys in all shapes and sizes so I'm inclined to think that you don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure good-looking lawyers can get a slight edge with a jury, but there are plenty of "ugly" lawyers trying cases, at least from what I've seen.
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Hey guys I have comited horible tort and i may loose my house but my question is - is lawyer is too big??? plz respond EIDT: ok fired lawyer but is new lawyer to small?!?!!! is VERY small!!!! Feces Starship fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Feb 2, 2011 |
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Feb 2, 2011 13:34
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Legal Questions Mega-Whammo 2.0: ok fired lawyer but is new lawyer to small?!?!!!
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baquerd posted:So is your claim that a quiet, fat, not pleasing to look at lawyer is just as good at swaying a jury or that they practice anyway despite their disadvantage? Are you retarded? No one said anything close to that.
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There's a midget trial lawyer in Los Angeles. He has a reputation for getting really excited and jumping up on his chair in court (not joking)
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E: No response in several pages, so no point leaving personal information here.
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Incredulous Red posted:There's a midget trial lawyer in Los Angeles. He has a reputation for getting really excited and jumping up on his chair in court (not joking) So he also acts as court jester?
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Feb 2, 2011 17:06
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baquerd posted:So is your claim that a quiet, fat, not pleasing to look at lawyer is just as good at swaying a jury or that they practice anyway despite their disadvantage? Certainly being handsome and tall doesn't hurt (I'm the latter), but there is much, much more to a jury trial than looking pretty.
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Direwolf posted:Can I sue my roommate for his half of the rent? I don't know if the joint and separate thing about leases defeats that, but I figure I signed the lease relying on his paying half (actually a little more than half as he had the big room). I'm only a 1L though so I don't trust my own judgment/experience. I'll be bankrupt by next month if he doesn't pay his share, and he hasn't found a replacement roommate (neither have I, though I only found out recently he hadn't been paying/looking and so I haven't been looking very long).
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I got arrested on Tuesday night for misdemeanor obstruction of a police officer and disorderly conduct. I've had a few misdemeanor charges in my past (two DUIS and a possession of marijuana charge). This was in the state of Georgia. How serious will this offense be?
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Mr.Almighty posted:I got arrested on Tuesday night for misdemeanor obstruction of a police officer and disorderly conduct. I've had a few misdemeanor charges in my past (two DUIS and a possession of marijuana charge). This was in the state of Georgia. How serious will this offense be? The severity of the punishment will depend on a lot of things, from the exact circumstances of the crimes, to how the judge views your record. But just for reference, the maximum penalty for misdemeanors in Georgia is $1,000 and/or 12 months. O.C.G.A. § 17-10-3.
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I live in New Hampshire, and I am an absolute idiot regarding anything having to do with lawsuits. I would like to know if my ex has a valid enough reason to take me to court. We shared a phone bill for quite some time, and it was in her name. I was paying for my phone's share of the bill - until I didn't have a job anymore. I told her I'd get around to paying it, and never did, until eventually the contract was up and she had a big bill to pay. Now I'm working (I wasn't for a long time), barely making any spare money, but she's demanding a large portion of the final amount that she ended up paying. She claims she will take me to court over it, and she is in Nevada now. So first off, how would this even work, taking me to court from over half the country away? Could she do something wacky like have the hearing or trial or whatever (like I said, I'm an idiot) in Nevada, which I obviously wouldn't show up for, thereby meaning I'm boned? Or does she have a case at ALL, since the phone bill was not in my name, not even a little? I believe there's also no paperwork about what month I stopped paying her, we would do a simple money exchange with nothing in writing. It may be difficult or impossible to determine what, if any, I owe. Hopefully this is enough information while being not too much. And thanks a lot to anyone with help.
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Mr.Almighty posted:I got arrested on Tuesday night for misdemeanor obstruction of a police officer and disorderly conduct. I've had a few misdemeanor charges in my past (two DUIS and a possession of marijuana charge). This was in the state of Georgia. How serious will this offense be?
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waitaminute posted:I live in New Hampshire, and I am an absolute idiot regarding anything having to do with lawsuits. I would like to know if my ex has a valid enough reason to take me to court. How much money are we talking about here? I really doubt that Nevada courts could exercise jurisdiction over you.
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Incredulous Red posted:How much money are we talking about here? I really doubt that Nevada courts could exercise jurisdiction over you. I would owe around 500 dollars. Or no, maybe less. It depends on when her mother's phone came off the bill, if it ever did. She hasn't told me exact figures because I'm not sure she could even come up with them herself, I don't think she kept track of when my last payment was. She would be trying to go at this with nothing in writing, other than a bill in her name. Just in case you guys don't want to help me for being a piece of poo poo, I have said in our conversation that I do want to pay her, it's just simply not financially possible right now for me. She wants it sooner than I can give it to her. Which is fair, but if I haven't broken a law then I want to do this repayment at my own pace, not whatever a court decides, and whatever amount the court decides is fair. waitaminute fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Feb 5, 2011 |
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Okay so this will be one of the stupider questions in the thread. I'm applying for a passport and need a guarantor for my identity, but it has to be someone in my country of residence. I am not currently in my country of residence and won't be for sometime. So I've filled out the forms and was planning on mailing them home where my guarantor could sign them, but it says the guarantor needs to have witnessed me signing them. I don't want to try pushing my luck (and neither would my guarantor, I imagine) because if they find out we lied, I might be barred from getting this particular passport. So my question is: if the guarantor saw me filling in and signing the form, say, via Skype, would it be a lie if they then signed saying they witnessed my signature? Would that hold up or am I just SOL until I am back in my home country?
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I am sure it depends on what country you are talking about but I know Canada for example the form is worded that the guarantor needs to witness you signing it in person. I had to renew my Canadian passport a little while back and ran into the same problem you did.
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Halisnacks posted:Okay so this will be one of the stupider questions in the thread. I'm applying for a passport and need a guarantor for my identity, but it has to be someone in my country of residence. I am not currently in my country of residence and won't be for sometime. So I've filled out the forms and was planning on mailing them home where my guarantor could sign them, but it says the guarantor needs to have witnessed me signing them. I don't want to try pushing my luck (and neither would my guarantor, I imagine) because if they find out we lied, I might be barred from getting this particular passport. So my question is: if the guarantor saw me filling in and signing the form, say, via Skype, would it be a lie if they then signed saying they witnessed my signature? Would that hold up or am I just SOL until I am back in my home country? Just get your family doctor ( or paediatrician) to sign for you.
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Robo Olga posted:I am sure it depends on what country you are talking about but I know Canada for example the form is worded that the guarantor needs to witness you signing it in person. I had to renew my Canadian passport a little while back and ran into the same problem you did. You no longer need guarantors for a renewal in Canada, just two references. The new renewal process is awesome, really - Show up with your old passport, pictures, the fee, and the completed form. Bing, bang, poof, new passport the next week. kalonji posted:Just get your family doctor ( or paediatrician) to sign for you. I understood that he needed someone from a country he wasn't currently in, that would make it difficult to do that.
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Incredulous Red posted:How much money are we talking about here? I really doubt that Nevada courts could exercise jurisdiction over you. Sorry I know I'm not really doubleposting but it kind of feels like it.. If this were the case, then nothing could come of it, right? Maybe just a hearing without me there, with a judge pretty much saying "eh, screw it" or am I way way off, and they would be making the decisions way over in NV without me being present to defend myself?
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waitaminute posted:Sorry I know I'm not really doubleposting but it kind of feels like it.. If this were the case, then nothing could come of it, right? Maybe just a hearing without me there, with a judge pretty much saying "eh, screw it" or am I way way off, and they would be making the decisions way over in NV without me being present to defend myself? Broad generalizations, of course, but I would never, EVER bank on the court dealing with a jurisdictional issue on its own initiative. Protecting YOUR interests is YOUR responsibility, and the average judge has too many things going on to do it for you. Say you believe jurisdiction in Nevada is inappropriate and you just chuck the summons & complaint in the mail and trust things will work themselves out to your favor. The most likely result is that you'd get a default judgment entered against you, because no one as there to raise the jurisdictional issue on your behalf.
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Alaemon posted:Broad generalizations, of course, but I would never, EVER bank on the court dealing with a jurisdictional issue on its own initiative. Protecting YOUR interests is YOUR responsibility, and the average judge has too many things going on to do it for you.
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Before you buy a plane ticket, there are a number of things that have to happen first. Namely, that a lawsuit be filed in Nevada, that you receive proper service of process, etc. So you're really raising issues that are several steps down the line. The only reason I'm even comfortable discussing this is because we're dealing SO hypothetically at this point that it's not really setting off my "legal advice" radar in a big way. Incredulous said, "Nevada might not have jurisdiction over you." To which you replied: quote:If this were the case, then nothing could come of it, right? I replied that I wouldn't advise relying on that. Even if jurisdiction is inappropriate, it is entirely YOUR JOB (or the job of someone on your behalf) to assert that as a defense. Asking what the court COULD do in this scenario is meaningless -- even if it's technically within the power of the court, you'd be better off wishing on a star or playing the lottery. It's like if you're having a heart attack and you just go sit in your front yard and hope a doctor wanders near -- technically possible, but I'd call 911. Now, when you ask about sending bare-bones information like "I never agreed in writing" is where the legal advice radar starts to ping. IF you get sued and IF you get served THEN consult with a lawyer before sending ANY kind of response to the court. Even if you think "I never agreed in writing" is harmless, you could be waiving defenses without realizing it. I think your worries are largely premature, however. Wait until you're holding a summons before you start worrying about the answer.
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Long story short: Contracted some repair work from a handyman for a house I'm working on. The total job was supposed to be for $650. I gave him a down payment of $320. A week later he says he cant do the job and hes refunding the money and after that I never hear from him again besides a text message telling me to "stay in school" and followed up by "1-800-DEEZ-N". I have a signed contract by him and text messages saved with him specifically stating the amount he owes me. I'm in Pittsburgh and have started filing papers to take him to small claims court at the local magisterial district but it seems like a waste of time. Then even if I feel like I would have trouble ever collecting The amount is so small and apparently its extremely easy to just appeal the case and bring it to the court of common pleas in which case I would just have to give up. At this point I'm mostly motivated by my desire to screw this guy over. If I could destroy his credit if he loses the case and decides not to pay me back it would probably be worth it to me but I don't really understand how the process after the case works. I was also wondering if there is any way I could pursue this case criminally. He clearly intentionally stole money from me... in my mind it seems like this should be able to be prosecuted in criminal court. Should I just take my loss and move on? Do I have any reasonable method for either screwing him over or collecting my money back? Any input would be appreciated.
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Its CRAZY LEGS! posted:Long story short: Contracted some repair work from a handyman for a house I'm working on. The total job was supposed to be for $650. I gave him a down payment of $320. A week later he says he cant do the job and hes refunding the money and after that I never hear from him again besides a text message telling me to "stay in school" and followed up by "1-800-DEEZ-N". I have a signed contract by him and text messages saved with him specifically stating the amount he owes me. If you were in Maryland I'd totally take your case pro bono if only to be able to write 1800-DEEZ-NUTS in a complaint. (I'd also sign the demand letter " <3 SWATJester, Esq. Stay in school, bitch! ")
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Here is an interesting hypothetical question. In another thread, this was posted:Cat rear end Trophy posted:Our family dog started getting credit card applications under her name. On a whim, one of my brothers sent one back. Included in the applicaion was her true age (6) and her true income ($0) Despite that, she got a card with a $2000 dollar limit and no co-sign. The dog used her card at the vet and pet supply stores, and paid her bill in full each month. If the owner was to stop paying on the credit cards, how would the company try to get the money back? Can you sue a dog? Assuming that the owner was 100% truthful on all the forms, and used the classic "paw print" signature, would he still be liable for fraud? I'm willing to bet that before the bubble burst the dog would probably have been able to get a NINA loan as well.
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SWATJester posted:If you were in Maryland I'd totally take your case pro bono if only to be able to write 1800-DEEZ-NUTS in a complaint. (I'd also sign the demand letter " <3 SWATJester, Esq. Stay in school, bitch! ") I'm pretty excited myself at the prospect of presenting this as evidence in court. Further pro bono offers are certainly welcome! Its CRAZY LEGS! fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Feb 6, 2011 |
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