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quepasa18 posted:Where did you go? I leave next week for London, Paris and Dublin.
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I worked on Christmas for that fat government overtime plus I don't celebrate so gimme dem gubmint bennies
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:I worked on Christmas for that fat government overtime plus I don't celebrate so gimme dem gubmint bennies Jerks like you are the reason I woke up to four different emails from docketing telling me about new OAs.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Impressive, young padawan. Have you thought to harness this talent of yours and gain true power through the dark side? Law has a light side?
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Does anything ever actually get done in "that" kind of law or is it just stupid motions until one side runs out of money and settles? That's about right. Motions and massive discovery projects/fights.
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I used to lurk in this thread a long, long time ago. Does Mookie still post here? Did he ever make partner? That dude used to be my favorite
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PatrickKilpatrick posted:I used to lurk in this thread a long, long time ago. Does Mookie still post here? Did he ever make partner? That dude used to be my favorite I don't think he does post here anymore, but I just looked him up and it looks like he hasn't made partner to this point. I'm not certain he's at the point where he should have or that's a problem for him.
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So I'm probably going to get my PhD. Here's the kicker, not only will tuition likely be minimal or free but they'll pay ME to go. It will delay my student loan repayment and allow me to continue to practice law. Don't go to lawschool.
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Roger_Mudd posted:So I'm probably going to get my PhD. Here's the kicker, not only will tuition likely be minimal or free but they'll pay ME to go. Seriously. My mother is a prof in a stem field at a UC. They actually pay prospective Ph.d students airfare and hotel if they get to interviewing. Now, admittedly, the tenure system these days is nearly as hosed up today as the partnership track, but at least you don't have six figures of debt just for the one degree.
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Roger_Mudd posted:So I'm probably going to get my PhD. Here's the kicker, not only will tuition likely be minimal or free but they'll pay ME to go. You are never going to sleep again
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CaptainScraps posted:You are never going to sleep again Like big law associates sleep.* * Alcohol related blackouts are not sleep.
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nm posted:Seriously. My mother is a prof in a stem field at a UC. They actually pay prospective Ph.d students airfare and hotel if they get to interviewing. My master's (in the humanities!) was fully-funded too.
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MaximumBob posted:I don't think he does post here anymore, but I just looked him up and it looks like he hasn't made partner to this point. I'm not certain he's at the point where he should have or that's a problem for him. Based on my extrapolations from his posts, he's probably in the beginning of the typical 3-year lookback period many firms use to decide partnership. (I don't know his name or anything but I believe he's in his 6-7 year depending on clerking credit.)
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Based on my extrapolations from his posts, he's probably in the beginning of the typical 3-year lookback period many firms use to decide partnership. My read is that's where he is, but I've never worked at a firm, so I wasn't sure if that was the right period or not.
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Roger_Mudd posted:So I'm probably going to get my PhD. Here's the kicker, not only will tuition likely be minimal or free but they'll pay ME to go. Petey notwithstanding, humanities PhD's aren't funded nearly as often as they used to be so I'm guessing this is a STEM. If it is, good for you but you're going to have zero time for outside work (maybe in the first year or two but definitely not once you've got any kind of paper going.) If it's a humanities thing I don't know but God have mercy on your soul
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Adar posted:Petey notwithstanding, humanities PhD's aren't funded nearly as often as they used to be so I'm guessing this is a STEM. If it is, good for you but you're going to have zero time for outside work (maybe in the first year or two but definitely not once you've got any kind of paper going.) If he's getting a fully funded humanities Ph.D more power to him. He may not be able to get a job, but at least no debt.
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At least he'll have more exciting business cards.
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Adar posted:Petey notwithstanding, humanities PhD's aren't funded nearly as often as they used to be so I'm guessing this is a STEM. If it is, good for you but you're going to have zero time for outside work (maybe in the first year or two but definitely not once you've got any kind of paper going.) Public Policy and Political Economy.
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Roger_Mudd posted:Public Policy and Political Economy. Dibs on your divorce cases
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Oh god if only I had started Golden Tate  Good season guys.
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Kalman posted:Jerks like you are the reason I woke up to four different emails from docketing telling me about new OAs. Weird, given that I doubt that TSS or the mail contractor were working on Christmas.
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I think today's going to be my happiest day ever as a lawyer - my boss is having me write a memo on sovereign citizens nationwide. I can totally pass off other work while researching this (by typing sovereign citizen into the search box here).
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Oh god if only I had started Golden Tate I'll take 3rd. I tanked a bit after Julio Jones went down.
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Just in case you don't have it here is that massive Canadian opinion discussing everything about them: http://www.albertacourts.ab.ca/jdb/2003-/qb/Family/2012/2012abqb0571ed1.pdf
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Soylent Pudding posted:Just in case you don't have it here is that massive Canadian opinion discussing everything about them: http://www.albertacourts.ab.ca/jdb/2003-/qb/Family/2012/2012abqb0571ed1.pdf I didn't even know "Moorish Law" was a thing, thanks for the laughs.
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mastershakeman posted:I think today's going to be my happiest day ever as a lawyer - my boss is having me write a memo on sovereign citizens nationwide. I can totally pass off other work while researching this (by typing sovereign citizen into the search box here). That is goddamn tremendous. Does that mean that he's handling a case involving one?
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It was my idea but we did have a sov. citizen here at the office trying to serve several of our attorneys with the complaint that she filed in federal court. Sadly no one would accept service because I kind of wanted to see what would happen (and because it isn't me, I'd have hidden under my desk).
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mastershakeman posted:It was my idea but we did have a sov. citizen here at the office trying to serve several of our attorneys with the complaint that she filed in federal court. Sadly no one would accept service because I kind of wanted to see what would happen (and because it isn't me, I'd have hidden under my desk). Should've told her that she was trying to serve your legal person and that you did not wish to create joinder with her.
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Yeah, probably for the best you're not dealing with one. Still, well done on your part. Try not to laugh yourself stupid too frequently. If your boss has a sense of humour you could put your name on it like mastershakeman, a flesh and blood entity, acting for MASTER:SHAKE:MAN, CORPORATE lAWYER entity
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Representing mentally ill/incompetent criminal defendants is probably the least fun thing on the planet. I usually end up with family on one side saying, "my relative is hopelessly insane we don't want them." And the client usually says insane things, doesn't understand the problems that he/she has, and doesn't appear to grasp that their life is a mess because of a mental illness. The best and worst case scenarios in the case are both not real good. Edit: probably should not say "fun". Rather it is the most heartbreaking.
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Apparently I'm pretty good at fantasy football. I'm not sure why, though.
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How do you other solos/small fry usually price wills? Had an inquiry recently and figured I'd ask.
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:How do you other solos/small fry usually price wills? Had an inquiry recently and figured I'd ask. Simple will? $350 with POAs for $150. Usually equates to about two hours of work including consultation and drafting for a will. If it's a husband and wife wanting wills, I usually do both for $500 because it's really drat quick. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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I live in a really small town where a simple will will run in the $150-250 range. Throw in health care surrogacy and living will for about another $50-75.
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CaptainScraps posted:Simple will? $350 with POAs for $150. If it's a husband and wife wanting wills, is it so quick because you're basically duplicating the substance of the wills, but just substituting <wife> for <husband>, and <husband> for <wife>, for each spouse's will?
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Green Crayons posted:What constitutes a simple will? Or, the perhaps more easy question to answer: when do you know that a will is no longer simple? If I don't have to establish a trust or deal with an estate tax, it's a simple will.
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This guy at work actually cited the Declaration of Human Rights and Section 1983 in his complaint against his Internet Service Provider because his internet speed was too slow. Probably the most  read I have ever had in my life.
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I just read a 691 page appeal brief filed against another examiner. None of it is lucid. I'd seriously consider quitting if I had to respond to it.
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I recently reviewed a bunch of files from a former Exxon patent attorney who had a talent for incoherent drafting and making dumb amendments. Some of these files have him irritating examiners to the point where they start citing multiple dissertations and scientific journals in every 103 rejection, it's amazing.
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Gainfully employed in panda law. Basically my dream job. Don't even need food stamps. Yet.
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