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Kinda glad I did not read any of that op or do any actual research before I went to law school
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2018 22:55 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 20:07 |
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Alexeythegreat posted:Why would there be an "interests" section on a resume at all I dunno if it's only an American thing but yea a lot of people do that here. its supposed to be so they can tell if you're a "good fit" for the "culture" of that job or if you're a weirdo, or if they need cover for the real reason they won't hire you
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2018 23:07 |
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Nonexistence posted:How do y'all find assets like bank accounts to garnish if the judgment debtor has just been radio silent through the whole proceeding? I dunno what state your in, but in Texas you can get court orders directed at “any accounts” the person has and then just mail the order to all the banks and poo poo around town and they’ll tell you if they have an account that fits the court order. I think it’s called a turn over order Also maybe wave garnishment sent to the employer? Again dunno where you’re at. Or a PI? EwokEntourage fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Aug 10, 2018 |
# ¿ Aug 10, 2018 01:18 |
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quote:availability of affordable domestic help are big draws, and I'm fine with Shari'a. Hmmmmmm Post the emails
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2018 05:13 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:lmfao It’s too bad you can’t do colored text. But can you increase/decrease font size?
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 02:58 |
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Have you considered become a dissident and then seeking asylum I assume this is a valid thing to do in Russia
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 22:51 |
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Look Sir Droids posted:“Are you Jewish? How Jewish is the firm?” which Tribe of Israel do you most identify with?
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2018 19:53 |
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Throatwarbler posted:I thought our career services were pretty good and helpful, to the extent that I could be helped by anyone. Gave me good advice on resumes and interviews, even hooked me up with a phone interview in 1L. You had a good run but you jumped the shark with the slavery comments and now we are in that last season where no one gives a poo poo any more and the story lines are stupid
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2018 00:30 |
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Whitlam posted:https://twitter.com/lanesainty/stat...ingawful.com%2F “ethnic Negro people” has so many layers Calling the peoples that had their land taken away by white people “ethnic” Using the word negro in 2018 Using the word Negro is refer to a variety of different African people EwokEntourage fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Aug 30, 2018 |
# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 01:43 |
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Valentin posted:hi law thread. if I've accepted an offer from my 2L summer job, is my only remaining goal to take the easiest classes possible and coast through 3L? or is it actually worthwhile to take black-letter law classes? Take whatever easy classes that give you a schedule with the most free time available so you can do all the fun poo poo you’re gonna miss when you go graduation to studying the bar to being a first year associate
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 20:24 |
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Alexeythegreat posted:15 was exactly when I started (the normal age in Russia is 18 - 19, right out of high school). I learned Swedish while getting ready for my year in Sweden and also during that year in Sweden. Russia does not, to my knowledge, have the time machine techology Yea you're gonna have to elaborate more on this.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2018 23:00 |
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Alexeythegreat posted:I started and finished school early, then I went to law school. Law school doesn't work in Russia like it works in the US because there is no college in its US meaning. That’s pretty cool. There’s no reason you should need a bachelors before going to law school in America other than schools wanting more money So you finished highschool at 14/15? How old were you when you started and how many years is that? Finishing high school at 15 in America is some of that “genius level child that has been deprived of a social life” poo poo
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2018 16:12 |
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The long term investing thread can probably help, there’s a fair amount of high earners in there. A tradition IRA is still taxed advantaged, and I think a lot of associates making big law rate will end up making less than big law rates later in life, so I think it’s still important to consider.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2018 19:57 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:Passed MPRE. Calling the bar tomorrow morning to find out when I can swear in. In Texas you can get sworn in in front of a notary CmdrSmirnoff posted:I'm finishing up a sentence appeal for production; 884 weed plants. Out of curiosity, what's the tariff for that like down in the states? My dude got 3 years (mandatory minimum) but the Court of Appeal struck it down as unconstitutional so now I can ask for whatevs. In texas they weigh the plant and then charge you based on that. So a 1 pound plant counts as 1 pound of weed/bud. how much did his plants weigh 5 - 50 lbs Felony 2* - 10 years 50 - 2000 lbs Felony 2* - 20 years More than 2000 lbs Felony 5* - 99 years EwokEntourage fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Sep 6, 2018 |
# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 00:58 |
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GamingHyena posted:They shouldn't be charging based on the total weight on the plant. They should be excluding {sterilized} seeds and stems. Maybe under the statute, but do you trust the police and does it matter how they weighed it if you plea out to something lower because they said you had 50 pounds and are facing 2-20? I do stand corrected though, I just looked at norml.org instead of digging up the statute
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 01:52 |
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But what about my whataboutism
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 05:14 |
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Alexeythegreat posted:Things like this is why you have a country-wide official language The only thing an official language would do in America would be making it easier for republicans to deprive minorities of their rights
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2018 02:09 |
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Sab0921 posted:I have unfortunate news - I have spent some time in D&D and it has come to my attention that all lawyers are responsible for the actions of all of their clients and also for every single other person at your firm, regardless of size. Yet they love Evilweasel
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2018 06:36 |
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blarzgh posted:I'm having a slow week, maybe I'll hop over to DND and try to swipe a proby for fun you can go argue with the idiot that keeps talking about murder 2 under Texas law
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2018 22:21 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:See this is what we need more of. Bugfuck crazy US legal shenanigans. Did you know that you guys practice something called a "deposition". It's the weirdest thing, it's where you don't allow a judge to watch a witness lie in real time but instead have lawyers there to badger the hell out of witnesses and then write down that witness's fuckups. It's amazing. https://www.chron.com/houston/article/Jurist-who-admitted-to-sexting-and-popping-pills-11273782.php JP Court judge was sexting her bailiff and using bailiff to get her drugs, which she used while presiding over drug cases
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2018 17:05 |
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Alexeythegreat posted:These title sequences are weird it usually is just (maybe junior) associate, senior associate, partner (maybe junior and regular partner), kind of like you describe The other titles, like staff attorney, as to shame people into quitting or leaving, or calling them Of Counsel so everyone is aware they didn't make partner. Gotta make sure everyone knows where you stand in the pecking order
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2018 18:28 |
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Vox Nihili posted:The defamation complaint against Musk, filed earlier today: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4895828-2018-09-17-Complaint-for-Defamation-Stamped.html Loving the parenthetical in paragraph 120
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2018 04:06 |
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Alexeythegreat posted:Do I not understand something or does that complaint contain exactly zero references to legal authority? It cites a few statutes for diversity jurisdiction. In US federal court, you don’t necessarily have to cite a bunch of case law or statutes in your complaint. You just have to plead a plausible cause of action for which relief could be granted (this is the basic version of the text). The elements of defamation are pretty basic, and it lays out the elements required, ie false statement, reckless disregard for the truth of the matter, damages.
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2018 14:39 |
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Adar posted:Is there a lot of caselaw on what qualifies someone as a public figure? Yes, there's a bunch out there, depending on what state and/or federal. He probably isn't a general public figure, like the president would be, but he maybe/probably is a limited purpose public figure due to his involvement in the cave rescue, being on the news a bunch, getting into it with Elon Musk, etc. Limited purpose public figures still have to show actual malice, but I would guess that a very well know, vocal billionaire tweeting that a (heroic cave rescue) dude is a pedo and then doubling down on it repeatedly would qualify as actual malice, unless Elon has some very very very convincing reason to assume the guy was diddling kids
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2018 18:26 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:I mean sure, but I was referring to like, I can put a few in an apartment in the city, probably ten or so in the summerhouse, eight at the most up at the cabin, so you're gonna have to be willing to have a rotation I think. Who likes crab fishing and northern lights? I posted about the summer house in my DIY thread: So you have an apartment, a cabin, and a summerhouse? Is land just free over there or something
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2018 23:36 |
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Whitlam posted:Serious question that I know would never happen for a heap of reasons, BUT: what if the other SC Justices just straight up refused to work with him? What would happen if they just boycotted/went on strike and said "we refuse to hear or judge cases while he's sitting here with us"? Would there be any recourse to that, or anything Congress could do? Can they even be fired for any reason? Congress could impeach them, that’s about it. Supreme Court justices can’t be fired, they largely self regulate, and impeachment is the only thing that can be done to them, but it requires a 50%+1 vote in the house to impeach and 2/3rds vote in the senate to remove, so it’ll probably never happen (no one will vote to remove a justice that aligns with their political beliefs) Rumor is everyone already hates Gorusch, but it keeps functioning
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# ¿ Oct 5, 2018 14:34 |
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Midland really sucks, because with oil prices booming, hotels are like 300 per night. I have cases there and the state refuses to pay for me to stay. They recommended I "fiigure it out." Now that is some bullshit
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 22:26 |
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I’m excited for six more months of Toona
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2018 03:01 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:that might not be too bad of a plan. Reminds me of HankCo. Good luck but that just Sounds like a sweat shop firm. How are there 12 cities in Florida worth having an office in, are the meth accidents that numerous EwokEntourage fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Oct 19, 2018 |
# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 05:48 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:it'd be like imagining a nuclear power mafia smuggling uranium and poo poo. So Russia?
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 22:06 |
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Wait, so the yakuza have an earthquake machine???
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 17:32 |
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Discendo Vox posted:I am not one of those goons who is super into Japan, but my rudimentary understanding is that their government and economy is more corrupt, and parasitic organized crime plays a larger, more accepted role in society, than basically any other nominally democratic country. Worse than the Republican Party???
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 21:28 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Having spent the last week in France I can confirm that everyone I talked to who brought up Macron disliked him, running the gamut from country farmers to wealthy retirees to May 68 leftists. Hollande left office with like a 4% approval rating, and his predecessor is under investigation for corruption, so pretty sure France just elects than hates idiots Macron fits the bill perfectly
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 04:19 |
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None of the space fighting makes any sense when you could just hyper drive asteroids thru star destroys or death stars or into planets
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 23:38 |
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Vox Nihili posted:Fury Road came out while I was in law school. Sat in the front row with a few friends, open bottle of wine in hand. There are probably better experiences in life but I doubt they're for me. Only action movie I took my (now) wife to where she suggested going to see it again Hot Dog Day #91 posted:75 new posts and none about me. Not everyone can be a trial wiz. However, opposing counsel on a case I got recently is a Cooley grad so I might have some fun stories
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2018 02:10 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:She offered $50k but I wanted to see if I could get $55k. I told her I’m worth a tax credit and asked for $60k. She said $55k with a bump to $60k on April 1st next year. Looks like I have a job. Congrats dude
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2018 22:20 |
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homullus posted:How long ago was the previous one? Toona successfully avoiding being a lawyer (momentarily)? Does it count if it doesn't last?
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2018 22:57 |
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Tokelau All Star posted:Goddammit. What am I looking for? https://www.gq.com/story/the-lasts-tweets-of-jacob-wohl Imagine trying to scam mueller. Now imagine doing that as a loving idiot
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2018 07:09 |
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Yea I wouldn’t ever hire a mediator that didn’t have at least a decade of practice or being judge, and I think even if I wanted to either the other side or my clients wouldn’t agreequote:zero litigation experience, a drinking problem, and impulse control issues
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2018 19:08 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 20:07 |
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I bill 180-200 pretty regularly at a fairly small firm and it doesn’t even seem like that much. Like I would be billing 220 a month if I wanted to feel like I wasn’t always behind the work I need to do I’d rather just be behind tho so. I’d also rather be being 200 a month than working 80 hours a week at $11/hr or whatever the other 80% of my generation does
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 03:05 |