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quote:Kalman – another weirdo who likes long, inscrutable discussions with WJ about 101s, SPEs, and whatever else patent “lawyers” talk about Can't really argue with that. (I'd add "Used to talk about it for biglaw, now in house/govrel." though.) A good OP.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Short answer: it is unless the sovereign waives immunity, which they (federal, state, local) have mostly done in various specific ways. And it only prevents you from punching up - the feds can sue the states without any concerns about sovereign immunity.
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ulmont posted:Well. Some concern as to if Congress has made its intention to cancel the state's sovereign immunity clear enough for the Supreme Court not to gently caress over the feds. Nah. Feds can always sue a state; there used to be an issue about whether Congress had made a cancellation of state sovereign immunity clear enough for a federal statute to strip state sovereign immunity from private suits, but that doctrine is basically meaningless after Florida Prepaid and Seminole Tribe. Kalman fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Aug 22, 2018 |
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Popero posted:I met a guy this weekend who is joining an IP firm to do IP litigation and can't sit for the patent bar. I thought it was weird but don't let these naysayers stop you GET MONEY. Nah, this is perfectly common - lots of patent litigators who can’t sit for the patent bar. (Probably more who can’t than can.) What’s uncommon is full time (c)/(tm) litigators.
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Aug 26, 2018 00:16
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nm posted:2. Go to law school a second time, maybe cooley, and get divorced like 2 times that time, and post it all here. Cooley LLMs are valued in the job market, I hear.
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yronic heroism posted:I feel like the Georgetown prep basketball team probs wasn’t v good. they were probably playing against a bunch of other rich white assholes so they probably did fine.
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Adar posted:The House is going to try to impeach Kavanaugh just before impeaching Trump next year and both will be annual affairs a la Obamacare repeals for the foreseeable future They won't impeach Kavanaugh. They'll Benghazi him.
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Oct 4, 2018 19:15
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Roger_Mudd posted:Make the Senate waste time and make votes on the record to attack? Creates votes for your members in redder states as well, and gives an easy attack on House members for wasting time. Holding hearings, on the other hand, get localized to the committee leaders (probably Nadler, who's completely safe), allow you to trickle out new allegations over time, and also stand a much better chance of actually successfully harming Kavanaugh.
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Oct 4, 2018 19:34
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blarzgh posted:Was fantastic. It’s not a joke and it doesn’t really qualify as an epic, but they are good. Hull Zero Three might be up your alley if you enjoyed Blindsight.
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Pook Good Mook posted:It's not about actually getting him to recuse himself. It's so Democrats are constantly reminded why you show up on election day. He’s trying to defend his tears, not his words. The people (person) he’s writing that for don’t give a poo poo about the insanity of what he said, they just thought crying about your quarterback and Squi was weird.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Ok I finished hull zero three. Blarzgh what do I read next? Didn't like 3 body problem. Loves hull zero three. If you were into Blindsight and Hull Zero Three, your next book is... Russo, Ship of Fools.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Isn't Le Pen a literal Nazi or am I confusing the name with someone else? Nope, they’re both Nazis.
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EwokEntourage posted:I bill 180-200 pretty regularly at a fairly small firm and it doesn’t even seem like that much. Doesn’t seem like that much til you switch to a job with a sane work schedule. Then you realize it absolutely was.
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The Dagda posted:What percentage of your actual work hours is billable hours? Or what I’m actually interested in, how many actual hours do you have to work in order to reach X billables? Depends, but 70-80% is a good rule of thumb (at least in litigation, no clue on transactional nerds). Goes higher as you get closer to trial and generally bill in bigger blocks of time.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Anyone here in the D.C. metro area? Yep. Probably lots of others too.
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Adar posted:uhh Lawyers trying to do math is invariably a bad scene.
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Just saying, these guys will do custom patent drawing posters...
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Vox Nihili posted:Probably for the same reason law firms won't hire contract/doc review attorneys: insufficient preftige. I think it’s an antideficiency act concern.
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ActusRhesus posted:You see the problem though, in taking someone doing years for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and claiming that sentence was for the “Oh and by the way he had some weed too” conviction, right? Wait is “gun without permit” a violent crime now?
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Unamuno posted:Judges aren't robots, appealing to their emotions can be a winning tactic. Especially when they're elected. Also TBH it might just have been a “gently caress you for defending these shitbags” at Jones’ counsel.
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Look Sir Droids posted:DuWay, find a recruiter or three in your area and let them find you something. At least in DC, recruiters are 100% useless for anything except going to another biglaw job. (They’re good at that, though.)
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Meatbag Esq. posted:They've been hyping it up since last fall about how it would reduce 101 rejections a lot. Iancu deeply deeply hates modern 101. In theory the 112 guidance would cover most of the applications that would have been rejected under 101... but let’s be honest, most examiners are going to take the WJ approach and say “gently caress that I’m lazy.”
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:The 112 guidance is dumb because it doesn't help with novel applications of routine and conventional functionality Yeah, but 99% of the time those applications fail to actually disclose how they do what they do anyway. (This is not to say the guidance is good. It is not.)
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nm posted:There is so much loving bad (or at least medocre) pho out there. Especially anywhere without a large vietnamese diaspora (aka not the west coast, NOLA, and minneapolis). You missed DC, which has a ton of good pho. (Well, northern Virginia does, city itself not as much.)
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Jan 25, 2019 16:03
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Nice piece of fish posted:... wait you have juries in civil cases? There's just no end with you people. We let juries decide on the validity of patents.
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Jan 28, 2019 20:53
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evilweasel posted:tbf twelve random idiots can't be worse than the federal circuit I'd have said that once. Then I watched mock jury deliberations on a few patent cases.
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Vox Nihili posted:I like Yuns (phone autocorrects to Guns lmao) but I found out in the whiskey thread that he spits when tasting and I'm not sure I can be OK with that. I thought the whole point of making partner was so you no longer had to deal with spitting/swallowing. Meatbag Esq. posted:I think overall having a unified patent appeals court has been good for patent law. The Supreme Court has done more than their share to mess things up. Yeah, no. CAFC is terrible (and completely captured), and the Supreme Court's involvement in patent law over the past ~15 years (which has mostly consisted of looking at CAFC's output and going "what the gently caress is wrong with you people?") has been A+.
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Dude’s dad had just died. It’s still inexplicable levels of fuckup, but that is a legitimate mitigating factor (even if 3 months is still ridiculously low.)
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evilweasel posted:the guy's dad died over a year afterwards: may 2018, all of the conduct was in 2017 You’re right, I misread - his dad was diagnosed with a terminal illness during the relevant timeframe. That’s even more stressful and distracting! (Don’t confuse that with saying that it’s enough to fully mitigate.)
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Thanks friends. Yes. God no. Eh probably not?
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Vox Nihili posted:Well his wife probably knows, seeing as he immediately cheated on her with a groupie after achieving a modicum of fame. Oh so it's Toona.
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sincx posted:Full text search is your friend. Seriously. It’s a minimum competence open book exam, where the book is searchable - it should be a week of studying and done.
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Discendo Vox posted:thread question:describe yourself as a mixed drink recipe Bourbon Barrel Stout. Not actually a mixed drink anymore, but produced by time spent soaking in a hard liqour. (The stout part should be obvious.)
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Toona the Cat posted:Relativity sucks and I’m glad I never have to deal with that bullshit again. I remember quite clearly talking to one of our paralegals when I first started, who (accurately) stated “Relativity sucks but it’s still better than the other options.”
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Soothing Vapors posted:Two things are simultaneously true about Relativity: The democracy of doc review software.
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As far as I can tell, for LLM programs it's pretty much "can you pay full freight for tuition? Is your LSAT vaguely in the range we would like? Cool, come on in, pay us."
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Apr 1, 2019 21:40
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Whitlam posted:Gonna have to pay $862 for my admission “The Admission Without Examination filing fee is $2500. This fee covers the cost of processing the Application, investigating matters contained in the applicant's completed Character & Fitness Questionnaire, and preparing of the Character Report.” (Virginia.)
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. Not sure if I should be posting here or in the bad with money thread.
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Whitlam posted:That's insane. Do you at least get to have a Hell if I know, I wasn’t going to pay that just to be barred in a state I live in but perform literally zero legal work in.
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blarzgh posted:Finished Book 3 of the Stormlight Archives, so its time for you guys to pony up some new reading recommendations. Give Naomi Novik’s Uprooted a go. (Obligatory Craft Sequence recommendation if you haven’t read it yet, Gladstone does good magic as law as magic in a way that’s enjoyable to actual lawyers.)
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