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Ran into an acquaintance from law school a few weeks ago. Said he was "busy as hell, and couldn't stop to talk". Ran into him again and stopped to chat. I asked him, "hey, you still work for ICE?" and he cringed and said, "please don't say that out loud." They're probably hiring a lot, maybe even ALJs! Or not, hard to say what they're doing.
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One of thr first cases I worked on was a Brady-bunch family where Mom married step-dad, and thrn after Mom died, she has step-dad as executor of a substantial estate. He starts spending it like mad, so Mom's daughters sue him to stop it and it escalates from there.
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Aug 9, 2018 20:38
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terrorist ambulance posted:Sorry cant hear you too busy loving my defined benefit pension You'll have to wait until Paul Ryan is done doing that first.
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Aug 10, 2018 21:16
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I certainly get a bit of shameful joy whenever I reject paperwork for minor errors. "Sorry, your client didn't date the paperwork, fix that and call back."
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Aug 13, 2018 01:17
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blarzgh posted:No one can hear you scream in a cabin in the woods? No, that's what he says to the goons that come over to visit.
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Aug 14, 2018 20:23
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SlyFrog posted:For some reason I have the "What have I become, my sweetest friend" lyric from Hurt running through my head over and over. I am so sorry for my (unintended) role in this godforesaken travesty. Man, that shredded cheese stuff is a life-saver. Handful of it in any meal turns it into a gourmet experience for the kids. Heck, when I'm too tired to cook, they'll eat it straight out of the bag.
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Aug 17, 2018 04:42
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So ask about work/life balance and mention that your wife/mistress/girlfriend is about to have oir first child this summer and I look forward to experiencing this miracle of life! Good way to play for sympathy.
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Aug 20, 2018 21:17
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:1. I've looked at a few of my colleagues open cases. He has multiple cases with the firm he's joining. I'm giving him until the end of today to let our admin know. JFC, that's like, super bad. Unless he works for the administration and ethics rules don't apply to him. Or maybe Texas is more relaxed about that sort of thing. .1 hours, consultation on ethics issues.
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Aug 20, 2018 21:32
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At my agency you're supposed to remove yourself from any cases if you're applying for jobs with the opposing side. Which is obviously a huge tell if you tell your boss that you can't work on evicting the war widow being represented by the firm, but you don't technically have to tell them you're interviewing.
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Aug 21, 2018 19:27
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Soothing Vapors posted:wow look at little lord fauntleroy over here sipping his fancy distilled liquor from a glass like some sort of fuckin Frenchman instead of just guzzling antifreeze from a radiator like our forefathers before us Uh yeah, this is the thread for Esquires, not common plebs.
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Aug 28, 2018 23:07
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ActusRhesus posted:Well that I can see. Counsel or councel though? If you are councel, all bets are off.
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Aug 31, 2018 02:47
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40, suckers!
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Aug 31, 2018 21:17
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ActusRhesus posted:Well. There’s that whole “you can be court-martialed for boning enlisted” thing too. You mean Kappas? They have bowls of water on their head, if they get spilled, they die.
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Aug 31, 2018 23:12
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mastershakeman posted:There was a big report about how this place is a giant money laundering operation that bought off all the local officials so ; lmao Did you know that thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, gambling losses are now fully deductible? Sounds like a great opportunity for money laundering and tax evasion!
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Aug 31, 2018 23:29
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I thought Romney's shtick wasn't the backdoor Roth, but that he blatantly undervalued the assets he was contributing and nobody called him on it (that we know of).
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Sep 4, 2018 21:01
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Soothing Vapors posted:I wonder why Sorry sir, I didn't do the reading. Can I pass on the question?
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Sep 5, 2018 05:09
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Also if my goat is stolen, and I later find it at someone’s house and that person can’t produce a witness to say they bought the goat from a merchant, then they should be put to death. If a man builds a house, and it collapses within a year of construction, the builder will pay for it. If ir collapses and kills the buyer's wife, he shall pay 5 mina of silver. If it kills the buyer's son, his son will be put to death. If it kills the buyer, he shall be put to death.
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Sep 7, 2018 03:02
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Phil Moscowitz posted:If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgment. If a barkeeper does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of a drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:35
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Wait until you have to drum up and maintain the source of the money that pays you and all the people who work for you. Ugg. Our rear end in a top hat boss tweeted out that he wasn't giving out raises this year. Hopefully the people who actually make that decision won't listen to him and give us our modest 1.5% or whatever it is.
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Sep 12, 2018 15:20
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blarzgh posted:I'm just busting your balls, although HDD might enjoy hearing about veterans being evicted. Sure, but this is a story of veterans not being evicted, which will only make him sad.
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Sep 14, 2018 02:55
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mastershakeman posted:I don't give a poo poo about someones moral character if I thought they'd be a good judge. But I also think kavanaugh is a dime a dozen judge with no original thoughts so let him fail the vote and confirm Kozinski or Kaczinskyi. I mean, he's committed perjury in both hearings, he's apparently taking bribes, his legal opinions are entirely dependent on who's in power, and he was up to his neck in some of the worst excesses of the Bush administration. So yeah, perfect judge.
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Sep 21, 2018 15:17
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Mr. Nice! posted:If I were a betting man, I'd wager that the judge vetting group the republicans use was well aware of Kavanaugh's potential liabilities. I seem to recall that he wasn't on the approved list of judges, and Trump selected him entirely because he wrote that the president is immune to criminal liability. Perhaps, like the heroes in Trading Spaces, they have a bet to see who the most reprehensible person they can get on the Supreme Court is. sullat fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Sep 25, 2018 04:21
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YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
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Sep 27, 2018 23:04
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Discendo Vox posted:What are you referring to? I think Feinstein sat on Ford's accusations for like two months until Ford's Congresswoman leaked it to the press. That didn't give the accusers enough time to prepare for the shitstorm that rained down in like a week. Furthermore, the whole "hire a prosecutor to grill the witness and then get rid of her because the nominee is melting under the slightest pressure" made it look like the whole thing was rigged in favor of the nominee.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:13
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Nonexistence posted:There's a good thread title lurking about "in lawyer world, letting your client die is the more ethical thing to do." Alas, I haven't put my finger on the perfect title yet. Dead clients file no bar complaints.
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Oct 3, 2018 18:06
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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. Emotional is code for drunk.
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Oct 5, 2018 16:45
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WaveLength posted:Lol law is so fake They are finally letting me us the computer program that lets us give people advice.
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Oct 6, 2018 22:28
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We were told we were going to get paternity leave, and a year later when I asked about, was told nobody had any idea what the hell I was talking about, get back to work! Thanks, Obama!
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Oct 9, 2018 19:38
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There's nothing like having a smiling angelic child come up to you, and say "Daddy, look at this picture I drew for you!" And then he shows you the picture, drawn with purloined sharpie, on the living room wall. Well, it's the buyer's problem now.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:40
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I am learning all about the exciting changes from the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" or TCJA. It has been very refreshing, although the guy sitting next to me keeps waking me up whenever something he thinks is "important to know" comes up.
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Oct 16, 2018 23:45
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disjoe posted:COMES NOW ON BEHALF OF ALL JEWS Oh, shoot, better get myself removed from the class so I can sue this Obama fellow independently.
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Oct 17, 2018 18:30
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Just a reminder, I won a 2 million dollar jury trial last week. drat, that's one hefty speeding ticket.
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Oct 22, 2018 03:42
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Gleri posted:How can you have a government without a budget? In the Canadian system basically all government spending requires a vote from Parliament (or the provincial legislature). Loss of supply means you cannot govern. We've managed for the last 8 years or so.
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Oct 22, 2018 21:45
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Mr. Nice! posted:I can't find the original video that first pointed it out 5 or 6 years ago, but since them both George Lucas and the actor who played Jar Jar have basically confirmed that it was the plan. Jar Jar was supposed to be the dark side Yoda. Lucas loves his "rhyming" themes. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar demonstrates cunning athletic ability, complete disregard for jedi and their powers, and is somehow completely and utterly feared by every other gungan. There are even a number of scenes where Jar Jar seems to be using force control abilities to make people say things he wants. I know this thread enjoys hazing as much as any other thread full of misanthropic recluses, but trying to trick people into re-watching Episode 1 is beyond the pale...
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Oct 23, 2018 05:42
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mastershakeman posted:I actually tried watching solo and was shocked at how muddy and ugly and hard to see the characters were in the beginning. Thought maybe it was my tv? And switched to fury road which still looks amazing and said nope, this is Ron Howard's fault Is Fury Road out on Netflix yet?
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Oct 23, 2018 16:04
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mastershakeman posted:Netflix doesn't have movies it's just a premium cable channel at this point I went to law school, not computer school.
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Oct 23, 2018 19:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EDiQXhYIKY
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Oct 26, 2018 03:55
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Look Sir Droids posted:Ewoks are inferior but Stormtroopers can’t shoot straight and are known incompetents. Complaint is a wash. The Ewok thing is straight pulled from an Ursula LeGuin story, IIRC.
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Oct 26, 2018 20:53
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mastershakeman posted:I actually just downloaded some le guin books because my wife keeps telling me I only reference the same handful of them over and over Not enough obsessive descriptions of hair pulling or food.
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joat mon posted:Avatar too (not the characters, but the story) Yeah, Lucas was at least subtle about it.
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