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Hey guys. Mildly urgent. Anyone know anyone who does criminal law in the Pittsburgh area? Minor issue with friend. I am not licensed in PA so I can’t help.
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Toona its your time to shine!
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Sep 10, 2019 14:02
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Correction: Anyone who is not Toona
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Sep 10, 2019 14:08
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ActusRhesus posted:Hey guys. Mildly urgent. Anyone know anyone who does criminal law in the Pittsburgh area? Minor issue with friend. I am not licensed in PA so I can’t help. Yeah, I know a bunch. Edit: 
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Sep 10, 2019 14:24
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ActusRhesus posted:Correction: Toona the Cat posted:Yeah, I know a bunch. Add this poo poo to the front page right loving now. I'm dying.
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Sep 10, 2019 15:14
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Pook Good Mook posted:Add this poo poo to the front page right loving now. I'm dying. Glad I amuse. Closest I’ve got to PA ties is the trooper who caught the amber alert in one of my cases. Awesome dude. And gave me solid gold “hero good guy cop” testimony on the stand. Even SV would have felt punched in the feels.
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Sep 10, 2019 15:32
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UN is currently hiring law-talking-guy jobs in Baghdad and Mosul and such to prosecute ISIL. How retarded would one have to be to apply?
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Sep 10, 2019 19:40
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ActusRhesus posted:Correction: Toona the Cat posted:Yeah, I know a bunch. cackling irl
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Sep 10, 2019 20:20
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It isn't a real conversation in this thread until Toona gets burned. The current question regarding billing in the question megathread is going to have an amazing ending at this rate.
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Sep 10, 2019 20:23
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:UN is currently hiring law-talking-guy jobs in Baghdad and Mosul and such to prosecute ISIL. How retarded would one have to be to apply? Prosecutors gotta prosecute, and with Daesh, your chances of prosecuting an actually evil person are far higher - maybe even approaching double digit percentages. On a less snarky note, what jurisdiction does the UN have to prosecute crimes in Iraq?
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Sep 10, 2019 20:26
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joat mon posted:Prosecutors gotta prosecute, and with Daesh, your chances of prosecuting an actually evil person are far higher - maybe even approaching double digit percentages. Valid question, and it's because they're putting together a mechanism for prosecuting them for crimes against humanity. "This position is located within the United Nations Investigative Team for Accountability of Da'esh / ISIL (UNITAD) and will be based in Baghdad, Dohuk, or Mosul, Iraq. UNITAD was established by the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 2379 (2017), according to which it is mandated to support domestic efforts to hold ISIL (Da'esh) accountable by collecting, preserving and storing evidence in Iraq of acts that may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by the terrorist group ISIL (Da'esh) in Iraq."
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Sep 10, 2019 20:51
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Eminent Domain posted:It isn't a real conversation in this thread until Toona gets burned. Of the handful of plaintiff's attorneys I know in Florida that I've spoken to, most do not keep extremely detailed time records because it isn't a hard requirement. Like I just posted in the thread, I kept much more detailed records when I was working criminal defense than I have in the contingency world.
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Sep 10, 2019 20:52
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Yeah but like, less detailed doesn't mean no. You'd want to at least throw down a vague description followed by (8) for each day.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:04
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No time sheets in the government friends It’s bliss
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Sep 10, 2019 21:11
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I have to keep it primarily for grant reporting purposes, so that's always fun.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:13
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Arcturas posted:Yeah but like, less detailed doesn't mean no. You'd want to at least throw down a vague description followed by (8) for each day. In some cases it's none. Florida courts follow a modified federal lodestar approach. The judge determines what a reasonable number of hours to complete a task and what a reasonable rate for the task is. Even if you track things meticulously, if your time is beyond the "reasonable" time determined by the court, it's reduced to whatever the reasonable time is. You are also allowed to add in your time spent calculating the hours worked. If you are granted fees, you then go back and look at the number of documents drafted, emails sent, phone calls logged, etc., and you get the standard time and hourly rate that has been used previously.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:15
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:UN is currently hiring law-talking-guy jobs in Baghdad and Mosul and such to prosecute ISIL. How retarded would one have to be to apply? Link please. Seriously though. Disinclined to leave my kid. But. The work I did in Iraq was some of the most rewarding stuff I’ve ever done. If I were still single, would absolutely apply. Also. “Retarded” is not nice. Try another adjective that isn’t horribly ableist.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:17
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spread the word to end the word!!!!
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Sep 10, 2019 21:24
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ActusRhesus posted:Also. “Retarded” is not nice. Try another adjective that isn’t horribly ableist. Isn't the pendulum swinging back now? #CancelRoger_Mudd
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Sep 10, 2019 21:30
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ActusRhesus posted:Link please. P3: https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=123086&Lang=en-US P4: ...gone. It must've just closed.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:37
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you should still keep track, even if its quarter segments like most bad plaintiff attorneys. That way you know what your profit is looking like compared to work performed, where/what you are spending your time doing, and to track anyone working under you to see if they bill enough to warrant their salary, and for malpractice defense reasons
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Sep 10, 2019 21:46
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euphronius posted:No time sheets in the government friends
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Sep 10, 2019 21:52
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ActusRhesus posted:Correction: Cold, but I'm sure toona could actually refer you to people as he worked at the PDs office. Don't recommend any study partners though.
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Sep 10, 2019 21:58
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Valid question, and it's because they're putting together a mechanism for prosecuting them for crimes against humanity. The current culmination of all of UNITAD's work: quote:It is my hope that within the next two months [of 19 July 2019] the team will have provided tangible support with respect to at least one ongoing case before national courts. OTOH, They're doing really good investigation/documentation/preservation work and trying to push for international due process/punishment norms in Iraqi courts, but they're not prosecuting. I think it would be very frustrating work going there thinking you'd be prosecuting.
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Sep 10, 2019 22:00
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Roger_Mudd posted:Isn't the pendulum swinging back now? #CancelRoger_Mudd As the tides of social change march on, I can only lament the loss of the best word I can use to describe myself
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Sep 10, 2019 22:11
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If it’s anything like the stuff I did, you will absolutely not be prosecuting. Or lawyering. Still. Met a lot of amazing people and facilitated worthwhile stuff.
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Sep 10, 2019 22:14
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blarzgh posted:As the tides of social change march on, I can only lament the loss of the best word I can use to describe myself I think fucktard is still ok.
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Sep 10, 2019 22:17
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joat mon posted:The current culmination of all of UNITAD's work: Oh yeah, there won't be any courtroom work for years, if ever. But still! There's also a posting up for actually prosecuting some war criminal shitbags out of the Hague in a retrial if that's more your bag.
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Sep 10, 2019 22:28
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One of my PD mentors went from prosecuting in Iraq to defending at GITMO. Kind of wild.
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Sep 10, 2019 22:34
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Oh yeah, there won't be any courtroom work for years, if ever. But still! Link?
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Sep 10, 2019 22:39
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Look Sir Droids posted:Link? https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=122310&Lang=en-US
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Sep 10, 2019 22:46
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Talking about application, apparently a computer issue mulched a slew Clerkship and Staff Attorney applications made through OSCAR: https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2019/...mpaign=usc-news "Only" about 3 months' worth of applications were affected...
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Sep 11, 2019 01:49
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Waiting on hearing if Leperflesh has a house.
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Sep 12, 2019 09:16
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Can we collectively agree to stop answering legal thread questions from the would-be legal fiverr startup disruptor? Just reading their posts makes me feel like an accessory.
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Sep 12, 2019 14:45
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I’m sure you guys get similar spam, but today I got a lawyer.com spam message I felt worth sharing. “I need a divorce. He did not tell me he had HIV before we got married.”
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Sep 12, 2019 15:56
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You could probably get an annulment for that
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Sep 12, 2019 16:19
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Just lost my cool during a hearing, and stood up, interrupted OC during argument: "Your honor, He keeps saying 'X', and its just wrong, just flat wrong. The case law says its wrong, co-counsel has explained that its wrong, and even his own document says its wrong, and I just can't listen to him say it anymore! I can't listen to it anymore." I didn't get in trouble tho so we're good.
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Sep 12, 2019 17:24
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blarzgh posted:Just lost my cool during a hearing, and stood up, interrupted OC during argument: "Your honor, He keeps saying 'X', and its just wrong, just flat wrong. The case law says its wrong, co-counsel has explained that its wrong, and even his own document says its wrong, and I just can't listen to him say it anymore! I can't listen to it anymore." Eviction?
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Sep 12, 2019 17:34
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Pook Good Mook posted:Eviction? A bullshit motion for sanctions against one of the lawyers in our firm. Because its a Trespass to Try Title suit, its a blatant attempt to try and recoup attorneys fees in a type of case where they're expressly disallowed, so to loving plant your flag on an allegation that a good lawyer acted in bad faith just to try an get some fees is A#1 cocksuckery in my book, so I went in mad.
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I feel the same in habeas cases where they’re claiming willful prosecutorial misconduct against good and ethical people. Had one where a murder witness was a crack whore already in jail for federal drug stuff. She had a deal for her testimony. It was disclosed. Later on the day of her sentencing the prosecutor found out she was HIV positive and argued for time served. Habeas counsel then accused him of having a secret deal with the witness. Witness’s lawyer testified he was totally surprised, as was his client. But hey. Let’s try to call someone unethical for deciding to show compassion to a recovering addict with a terminal illness. 
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