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eviltastic posted:Misremembered "do they" questions as "could they" when typing, which was dumb and changes the context. I've pulled it to edit. If you meant something else, I'd appreciate a PM. To clarify, I'm just being a dick. We're just anonymous attorneys (and wannabe attorneys, e.g. DV) who occasionally chat off-handedly about legal issues, I don't anticipate that a bonafide attorney-client relationship would arise from these posts. But a disclaimer never hurts.
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Vox Nihili posted:To clarify, I'm just being a dick. We're just anonymous attorneys (and wannabe attorneys, e.g. DV) who occasionally chat off-handedly about legal issues, I don't anticipate that a bonafide attorney-client relationship would arise from these posts. But a disclaimer never hurts. If any of you get in trouble relying on my suggestion to retain experienced counsel when confused, I will notify my carrier immediately. (I figured, but you're right that it never hurts to be cautious. Get sloppy in one place and the habit can carry over to another.)
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Vox Nihili posted:(and wannabe attorneys, e.g. DV) Are you kidding? In my current position I have most of the money, all of the authority, little of the responsibility and zero BAC.
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Discendo Vox posted:zero BAC. loving failure
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Nah I'm with DV, go public service, wield power indiscriminately. Also more booze for the rest of us, so I appreciate that.
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Started my first week at Georgetown. All is well so far.
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:Started my first week at Georgetown. All is well so far. If you consider instantly owing $30,000 "going well", sure
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:Started my first week at Georgetown. All is well so far. Are you in person or remote? Also, every day is an opportunity to not become a lawyer.
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:Started my first week at Georgetown. All is well so far. Pretty sure you can get a full tuition refund if you ask within 6 weeks. RIP your apartment lease, textbooks, and moving costs.
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I recently met a dude who told me he was a 3L at Cooley and it took everything I had to not grab him by the shoulders and tell him, quit now quit now quit now quit now quit now quit now quit now quit now quit now
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Look Sir Droids posted:Pretty sure you can get a full tuition refund if you ask within 6 weeks. RIP your apartment lease, textbooks, and moving costs. One of my only fond memories of law school was some guy with his own practice giving this advice to my 1L seminar and several students visibly tearing up. "I only do this because if I wasn't I'd still be sweeping up in a dress factory." Mind you this fellow was invited to speak after the professor caused several students to tearfully talk about what a terrible time they were having when she asked "how are things going?" during the previous class and wanted to lift people's spirits.
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nm posted:Are you in person or remote? As for the "don't become a lawyer", it's still ten years too late for that.
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Love when a Decree quotes—typos and all—a completely baseless statement of fact out of the opposing party’s brief.
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Discendo Vox posted:Are you kidding? In my current position I have most of the money, all of the authority, little of the responsibility and zero BAC. I'm not saying that being a wannabe attorney is rational.
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:It's all remote for now. Are you doing an LLM?
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:It's all remote for now. I can't keep track of people going to law school until you start acting like toona. And how do you sleep with a study partner remotely?
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nm posted:I can't keep track of people going to law school until you start acting like toona. And how do you sleep with a study partner remotely? Technology is amazing these days.
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You can probably mortgage your house remotely.
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https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1299126948908670976?s=19
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Amending all form prayers for relief to include “Plaintiff can go gently caress himself—seriously.”
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unfortunately it got stricken from the record and they have to refile by next friday: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1246424/gov.uscourts.azd.1246424.16.0.pdf case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17465442/arizona-board-of-regents-v-doe/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Amending all form prayers for relief to include “Plaintiff can go gently caress himself—seriously.” We've all thought it.
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As much as I've enjoyed Twitter over the years, it really is a cesspool of lies and is probably actively destroying US democracy. I can't count how many times this week I've seen tweets from people claiming to be lawyers talking about the "Fleeing Felon Rule" as if it was the actual law. Who the gently caress are these people? What motivates a person to pretend to be a lawyer for the sole purpose of committing malpractice? What kind of reward could they possibly hope to receive from that? edit: I should clarify, the "rule" these people are pushing is that cops can shoot anyone resisting arrest, regardless of reasonable danger - you know, the one that was found unconstitutional 35 years ago. TheWordOfTheDayIs fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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They’re owning the libs and that’s all that matters.
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And more insidiously, moving the Overton window.
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joat mon posted:And more insidiously, moving the Overton window. Yeah, it's actually this. Fascist don't care about the truth at all, that's a defining feature. So long as it pushes public discourse to ever more extreme right wing views, even through noise pressure alone, no utterance is beyond them. Bonus is frightening people and using up bandwith for leftists who are obliged to use words and effort in refutation.
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The really tragic part about all of this is none of it matters. We're already past the point of no return when it comes to runaway warming and climate change. In my lifetime, billions are going to die because of man's hubris over the past ~200 years. Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than replacement at an accelerating rate. When that's done melting there will be approx 20 feet (6 meters for the rest of the world) in sea level rise. The global ecosystem is falling apart because we're in the midst of a mass extinction event. We're all the dinosaurs watching the meteor come flying through the atmosphere except it's in stunning high def an super slow motion. There isn't anything that can be done to reverse course at this point. We're going to be completely without arctic ice in the summer over the next few years. The heat waves over the next few decades are going to have death tolls we've never imagined. There is going to be devastation around the world of unfathomable proportions. Why, yes, I am severely clinically depressed. Why do you ask?
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TheWordOfTheDayIs posted:As much as I've enjoyed Twitter over the years, it really is a cesspool of lies and is probably actively destroying US democracy. This, but Facebook. I think more people discount what they see on Twitter because it's not presented to them by their close, likeminded friends in between posts of baby pictures. Also Facebook is more Boomer-friendly, and this is all Boomers' fault.
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Vox Nihili posted:Are you doing an LLM?
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Mr. Nice! posted:The really tragic part about all of this is none of it matters. We're already past the point of no return when it comes to runaway warming and climate change. In my lifetime, billions are going to die because of man's hubris over the past ~200 years. Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than replacement at an accelerating rate. When that's done melting there will be approx 20 feet (6 meters for the rest of the world) in sea level rise. The global ecosystem is falling apart because we're in the midst of a mass extinction event. We're all the dinosaurs watching the meteor come flying through the atmosphere except it's in stunning high def an super slow motion. There isn't anything that can be done to reverse course at this point. We're going to be completely without arctic ice in the summer over the next few years. The heat waves over the next few decades are going to have death tolls we've never imagined. There is going to be devastation around the world of unfathomable proportions. All this sounds strangely comforting...
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without getting too political, what do you think that child soldier's chances are of getting convicted on the felony charges? (i assume the misdemeanor for carrying weapon while underage is open and shut) there's a million factors going on including the extremely confusing parking lot video that captures a portion of the beginning i'm pretty pro gun so i'm surprised that there's so many people so confident about the chances of conviction and am wondering what i'm missing due to my blinders
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dunno it all depends. what can the government prove, what is he prepared to say (if he does testify) and how convincingly can he say it defence of self/property cases are tricky, especially for first degree. I won't be watching the videos so maybe it is that clear, but I'd be pretty skeptical of someone claiming it's open and shut first degree in the context of civil unrest like that, even though the little chud apparently traveled there with an illegal firearm
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TheWordOfTheDayIs posted:All this sounds strangely comforting... I mean the real question is, when mankind is nearly wiped out and the cockroaches take over, who will provide their legal representation? Because I’ll be damned if it’s Wachtell again.
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I was unwillingly dragged into the M&A group about six months ago. It's not that fun. I do like the furious unpredictable rage responses it provokes though. It's almost like being 20 and having that young angry dude testosterone back.
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Flutieflakes017 posted:I was unwillingly dragged into the M&A group about six months ago. It's not that fun. I do like the furious unpredictable rage responses it provokes though. It's almost like being 20 and having that young angry dude testosterone back. It's particularly sweet when you reach your mid-40s, and that repeated cortisol/adrenaline surge cycle starts to show the longer term physical effects that science has shown stress produces.
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SlyFrog posted:It's particularly sweet when you reach your mid-40s, and that repeated cortisol/adrenaline surge cycle starts to show the longer term physical effects that science has shown stress produces. Wait I'm having that now, how do you make it stop?
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Nice piece of fish posted:Wait I'm having that now, how do you make it stop? Have you ever read John Grisham's "the Litigators?" I think you have to have a psychotic episode, bottom out and become an ambulance chaser. Sly Frog please correct me if I am wrong.
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mastershakeman posted:without getting too political, what do you think that child soldier's chances are of getting convicted on the felony charges? (i assume the misdemeanor for carrying weapon while underage is open and shut) there's a million factors going on including the extremely confusing parking lot video that captures a portion of the beginning It's definitely not a guaranteed conviction. I didn't watch the murdery parts of the video. From the description of events, it does not sound like there should be a viable claim of self-defense (no idea how WI laws is on that though). Motive may play a big part if the kid's social media really is littered with white supremacist poo poo. My question is, where are this loving kid's parents? They're staring a civil suit in the face, and I'm sure the MAGAs will finance their defense. Sidenote: What about being pro-gun makes it acceptable, for an underage person no less, to wade in to an interstate protest to defend property? This was not responsible use of a firearm.
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Flutieflakes017 posted:Have you ever read John Grisham's "the Litigators?" I think you have to have a psychotic episode, bottom out and become an ambulance chaser. Sly Frog please correct me if I am wrong. Two out of three ain't bad.
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Look Sir Droids posted:
same thing that makes it acceptable, apparently, to point your gun at people on your front lawn with your loving finger on the trigger and then speak at the RNC about your experience
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