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HiddenReplaced posted:hahaha I love that one! that's "stat", right - ie, "keep as is" ? usually when a partner made a correction then changed their mind?
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entris posted:hahaha I love that one! that's "stat", right - ie, "keep as is" ? usually when a partner made a correction then changed their mind?
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You know what's amusing? You are correct, it's "stet" but I've seen it mostly spelled "stat". Ha, silly partners.
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Roger_Mudd posted:The thing I've never understood, if your going over the document, why not just add the loving commas yourself (not you directly). I understand handing it back to the associate if something needs rewording but I don't get handing a document back to an associate for minor punctuation or formatting changes.
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Can I use this thread to ask about car accident related stuff, or is there somewhere better I suited for that?
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Adama posted:Can I use this thread to ask about car accident related stuff, or is there somewhere better I suited for that? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3266659
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Older lady depositions are just the worst. She won't stop crying about everything.
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Ask her about her history of drug abuse.
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evilweasel posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3266659 Thanks!
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Ask her about her history of drug abuse. Her attorney kept using it as a chance to grandstand on the record. The first time she cried we tried to go off the record so she could go to the bathroom and compose herself, but he goes "No! I want this on the record so they can see how my client is emotionally distraught and crying."
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HiddenReplaced posted:Why the gently caress can't partners use "track changes" on their loving computers? We have the same phenomenon in my line of work, and I actually prefer handwritten edits. Since I tend to have better attention to formatting detail than my very busy boss(es), hard copy edits mean that I don't have to worry about them putting an extra space or forgetting to track some changes while leaving others, etc. It basically saves me from having to re-read the whole thing and lets me focus on making needed changes and getting the piece published.
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HiddenReplaced posted:
also, since sunday here at my lifestyle firm, I have billed 11, 11, 16, 14, and 10 and I'm still a jillion hours behind thanks to a lovely january
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Meanwhile, at 4PM on Friday, my boss came in and said, "you know you can leave, right?" Edit. Still here because my job is interesting. Is something wrong with me? nm fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Feb 11, 2012 |
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Video conference was a poo poo show, but it helped break the ice. Also I got to tell my story about being kicked out of Le Bernardin.
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Zarkov Cortez posted:Also I got to tell my story about being kicked out of Le Bernardin. So, I have to go talk to some High School AP class in a month or so. How do i talk them out of law school without pissing off the teacher and my boss?
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nm posted:Need to hear about this. Emphasize the long hours and tell them they have to REALLY want it, to the point where they don't mind neglecting family, friends, and sleep to make sure that their client wins. And that they have to love the law.
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Whatever, when I got kicked out of Dorsia I offered my reservation to Paul Allen as a joke over iPhone skype.
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CaptainScraps posted:Emphasize the long hours and tell them they have to REALLY want it, to the point where they don't mind neglecting family, friends, and sleep to make sure that their client wins. And that they have to love the law.
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CaptainScraps posted:Emphasize the long hours and tell them they have to REALLY want it, to the point where they don't mind neglecting family, friends, and sleep to make sure that their client wins. And that they have to love the law.
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nm posted:Need to hear about this. I was chosen to speak to a young high school kid who was shadowing our office because they wanted to go into "air force law." I cross examined her for about 10 minutes about her career choice and implied she would probably get her entire command of secretaries and paralegals killed in Afghanistan. I am not allowed to participate in job shadowing anymore.
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Ersatz posted:"You should only go into law if you love abstract concepts more than the people in your life, including yourself." The problem is that this might backfire for the nerds in the audience
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nm posted:So, I have to go talk to some High School AP class in a month or so. How do i talk them out of law school without pissing off the teacher and my boss? Talk about how the nation needs nurses badly and that everyone loves nurses.
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nm posted:So, I have to go talk to some High School AP class in a month or so. How do i talk them out of law school without pissing off the teacher and my boss? This doesn't directly answer your question but you should impress upon them the importance of grades during undergrad and to major in something that will help them land a normal job. I would have really liked someone to have told me that.
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nm posted:So, I have to go talk to some High School AP class in a month or so. How do i talk them out of law school without pissing off the teacher and my boss? http://sowhatimhearingyousayis.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/the-anger/
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So I just wrote the LSAT. When can I put esq. on my business cards?
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rockin peanut posted:So I just wrote the LSAT. When can I put esq. on my business cards? I know you're joking, but never. Don't refer to yourself as esquire even if you're a lawyer, eww.
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MoFauxHawk posted:I know you're joking, but never. Don't refer to yourself as esquire even if you're a lawyer, eww.
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Ani posted:If you are a lawyer it can be useful to use Esq. sometimes just to make clear that someone is a lawyer. E.g., "Notice shall be sent to XYZ Corporation, Attn: Joe McDouche, Esq." But if you're instructing somebody to send something "Attn: Joe McDouche, Esq.", it's a third person address.
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Schitzo posted:Question for the prosecutors in the house: I assume that over time you build working relationships with defence counsel, and have a decent feel for who is reasonable and who isn't. I work in a small town where every lawyer is on a first name basis with every other lawyer. We in the prosecutor's office know exactly how reasonable each lawyer is on average, which one we can trust, and which are easy to work with. If an otherwise easy to work with lawyer goes bananas in a case, we know he's got a crazy client who is paying him lots of money (or, if they're a PD, just a crazy client). We in no way hold that against them. We especially appreciate it if we get stopped in the hall and they give us a heads up about a particular client, so both of us know not to take the time to try to negotiate or plea bargain, and we can prepare for the eleven bizarre motions that are coming. In summary, we don't care about hyper-aggressive clients (but we do care about hyper-aggressive lawyers).
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MoFauxHawk posted:But if you're instructing somebody to send something "Attn: Joe McDouche, Esq.", it's a third person address.
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Ani posted:Oops, you said refer to yourself. I think it might still be useful if you for whatever reason want to make clear you are a lawyer in some professional context; I can't think of when this would come up, but I'm sure it does. When you need to make sure its clear that you are a lawyer you sign correspondence "John Smith, Attorney at Law."
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J Miracle posted:When you need to make sure its clear that you are a lawyer you sign correspondence "John Smith, Attorney at Law." I don't practice anymore, so if I need someone to know I'm an attorney for whatever reason, like writing letters of recommendation for my students, I put JD after my name.
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Dr. Roger_Mudd, Esq. BS, JD
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Roger_Mudd posted:Dr. Roger_Mudd, Esq. BS, JD You forgot QT.
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Hello law thread. I recently got into a law degree in Australia. I shall now lurk this thread forever.
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Sharks Below posted:Hello law thread. I recently got into a law degree in Australia. I shall now lurk this thread forever. Congrats dude. Australia is opposite-world from the US, so the legal market there is brimming with well-paying opportunities, the cost of legal education is reasonable, and the profession itself is a meaningful affair with a good work-life balance.
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entris posted:Congrats dude. Australia is opposite-world from the US, so the legal market there is brimming with well-paying opportunities, the cost of legal education is reasonable, and the profession itself is a meaningful affair with a good work-life balance. Oh cool. I currently work for Legal Aid in QLD so I am seeing at least the meaningful side of it. The solicitors I work with at the moment are pretty inspiring in terms of being decent people with meaningful jobs  Is the legal profession really that hard up for positions in the US? Isn't litigation alive and well over there? E: God that was obnoxious. I'm sorry. I genuinely didn't realise there were job shortages.
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I don't actually know anything about the Australian legal market - I was just painting a picture of a utopia for lawyers where the women are plentiful and have hot accents and we all have jobs and life is just so grand. This is the Australia that I want to believe in. (you didn't come across as obnoxious)
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From the Hilarious things you did as a kid thread...quote:My dad was trying to become a partner with this huge law firm when I was about 3 years old. To earn so brownie points, he brought me and my two older sisters (9 and 13 years old) to a really fancy Christmas party they were having. Naturally, the three of us got really bored and started roaming the building, going through people's offices. My oldest sister found a permanent marker in one of the desks and wrote something on my hand. I was too young to read but both of my sisters were cracking up and told me to "go show Daddy". Word to the wise: beat your children appropriately so that they behave well at your firm's events.
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