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Completely empty first page snipe. Don't go to law school. Or at least shadow a lawyer or work in a firm before you do.
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mastershakeman posted:btw for the last thread gently caress ya, back of the human centipede.
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Aug 8, 2018 06:26
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blarzgh posted:Believe you me, it doesn't matter what their sexual orientation is when it comes to stealing an inheritance from someone. I hope the local prosecutor gets wind of this (especially the Reddit post) and charges the whole lot of them. I hate this kind of poo poo so much.
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Aug 9, 2018 14:19
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mastershakeman posted:^^^^ look I bought "as is" but obviously that means I'm not buying as is if I find anything wrong with it post sale, as determined by me I'm not a real estate or contract attorney, but don't you still have a cause of action in an "as-is" sale if the seller actively concealed faults?
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Aug 9, 2018 15:36
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mastershakeman posted:How are you going to prove that? And how can you do that cheaper than just saying gently caress it and letting the other side keep the earnest money which is usually just a couple grand? Well if you're a good pro se who don't need no stinking lawyer, it shouldn't be that hard.
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Aug 9, 2018 15:53
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mikeraskol posted:It reads like a troll to me because the guy posting is like "omg I didn't think this was such a serious issue we just thought it was more fair for us to get the money" and "omg I can't believe it we could be in trouble for stealing this guys money whaaaaaat I can't believe he's suing us where did he even get the will"? Aren't you a lawyer? evilweasel posted:the entitlement is really easy But they weren't even married!
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Aug 9, 2018 16:55
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Eminent Domain posted:People are 100% stupid enough to pull that poo poo with the will and then be ~shocked~ that they are gonna be held accountable for it Seems like you see two kinds of "shock" with this type of thing. Shock that they were wrong or that they somehow aren't justified. Shock that the other person is actually standing up for themselves (when they knew they were wrong from the get-go)
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Aug 9, 2018 18:10
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Tipps posted:Are allayall Americans saying that you guys don't have a US equivalent of Canlii? But federalism and overreach and big brother and states' rights!
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Aug 13, 2018 14:31
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ActusRhesus posted:Canada has its own special breed of hillbilly. Go far enough north and you can observe the mullet in its natural habitat. The entire maritimes (excluding Halifax) is just Northern Maine with funnier accents.
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Aug 13, 2018 18:58
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nm posted:Some of them speak french. Again, northern Maine with funnier accents.
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Aug 13, 2018 19:57
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nm posted:Jesus loving Christ, is this pro-slavery post? Throatwarbler, let me ask you this. Is the reason you are obsessed with making $190k so that you can buy poo poo loads of overpriced "fashion" watches that you can show off in airport lounges? Follow-up, what is your time-frame on purchasing a Bugatti? Final follow-up, what is the best safe to buy to keep my South-Asian laborers passports in while they work for me?
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Aug 14, 2018 06:24
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Oh my God who bought blarzgh's new av.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:46
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Your political minute John Kerry made the correct decision. That yellow goo they call "cheese" is horrid.
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Aug 17, 2018 03:39
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Yuns posted:I fell asleep in my home office after coming home from work. I was so tired that I was unresponsive and couldn't be woken to the extent that my wife and kids were momentarily worried that I had died. The legal system is there for exactly the situation you're dealing with. They are far better equipped and have experience dealing with people like your old friend. Your friend can not get lower than a homeless person running around Penn Station. Seeking some sort of civil commitment is going to be better for him than being arrested and cycled through the criminal system, which is probably the most likely outcome, followed closely by death in the winter. Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Aug 17, 2018 04:48
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Lote posted:The laws vary state to state, and some states do allow friends to file with the appropriate authority for at least an evaluation by a psychiatrist. If he’s willing when you talk to him, you can also just ask him to come with you to Bellevue to get help. I have a friend from high school that went to Harvard that got schizophrenia. It’s really sad and then his schizophrenia got co-opted by the Larouchites so he screams at people outside the subway. I was going to write this. Your friend's family may have no clue where he is, or may have given up on him. You might be "the guy" to advocate for him. Have you contacted his family? I'm not a New York lawyer, but looking at the laws, it looks like the director or supervisor at a hospital or care home can file for involuntary commitment. So it looks like you can't file, but you might be able to reach out to social services and bring someone with you into Penn Station. His family could do it too if they know what's going on.
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Aug 17, 2018 14:40
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Hoshi posted:Reminder that once upon a time there GOP replaced all the Heinz ketchups in part of NYC with Hunter's or something for their convention It warms my heart that this lady might be dead by now  Incidentally 2004 was when I lost all faith in the Democratic party. John Kerry should have had a press conference where he went off about this poo poo and called the entire Bush cabinet a bunch of cowardly fucks. But 
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Aug 17, 2018 14:55
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Hoshi posted:When this happened I did a double take Luckily Republicans have zero actual convictions or morals beyond sticking it to the libs so Trump was fine. Again though, in a functional country, McCain would have had a press conference where he called Trump a loving cowardly dipshit and demand he produce medical evidence of his bone spurs. But then again,
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Aug 17, 2018 16:27
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blarzgh posted:What is it with you and press conferences?? I am now a prosecutor, any problem can be solved by talking to the press. But seriously, press conferences are basically the only mechanism you can get the story to focus on what you want it to and you force the media to give you and your message coverage at the expense of your opponent and force your opponent to respond. John Kerry couldn't have said that stuff in a debate because Bush would have hyucked his way around it by saying that that's his supporters, he totally respects John Kerry's service.
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Aug 17, 2018 16:47
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My defendant pussed out on his speeding jury trial and now I only have bench trials next week. Booooo
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Aug 17, 2018 21:52
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Soothing Vapors posted:my newest criminal client is cellmates with a "lawyer" (read: not a lawyer). I've sunk immeasurable hours into his defense already. I drove two hours to meet with him, on a Sunday, so he could lecture me at length about how everything I've done to defend him is wrong, I don't understand the sentencing guidelines, I don't understand his "rights" under the offense he's been charged with, and I need to tell the USAO that we won't accept a plea offer with any penalty more severe than probation You should actually do everything he wants and then take it to trial so he can get royally hosed by the Feds. Our gameplan at the PD's office was usually to just call the person's bluff and make sure to keep them filled in with why what happened is actually their fault. Obviously make sure to get all this in writing, "I advised my client of X, he refuses anything that isn't Y. Signed:______" Alternatively get out of repping him by putting your foot down about something that's a legit strategic decision and then make him make you file to withdraw. Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 19, 2018 |
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Aug 19, 2018 22:57
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Abugadu posted:We had a literal jailhouse lawyer once, who got put away for pedophile poo poo. He would find out which cases the prosecutor on his case were working, and draft up bs motions on them to make busy work and hopefully get his own case tossed/reduced. A jailhouse lawyer was partially responsible for getting a defendant in my old office 57 years with 75% prison time instead of an offered 20 with parole possible after ten. Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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Aug 20, 2018 06:41
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Pook Good Mook posted:A jailhouse lawyer was partially responsible for getting a defendant in my old office 27 years with 75% prison time instead of an offered 15 with parole possible after 7.5.
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Aug 20, 2018 06:45
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Also, he may be self-limiting by only going to corporate law or bust. Sounds like he should have read the bi-modal vs. median post on the first page. In any event, if he hasn't found anything he enjoys, and is only doing it for money, then ya, he should drop out.
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Aug 20, 2018 14:39
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Nirvikalpa posted:
Ask him what his substance of choice is now so he's prepped when he burns out.
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Aug 20, 2018 17:03
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Soothing Vapors posted:It's amazing how bad law students are at interviewing, and how little career services does to prep them. Every year, without fail, I reserve the last 5 minutes of an OCI screener to ask the candidate: "So what questions can I answer for you about Shitfucker, Snuffgoblin and Jones PLLC?" Generally speaking if you can't feign enough interest in my firm to find a few things to ask about, you're probably not getting a callback. That poo poo's like Interviewing 101. Every year, without fail, one third to one half of the kids I'm screening will shrug at me and say "I don't have any questions" or its cousin, "you answered all my questions." To play Devil's Advocate, almost no firm is special, and expecting someone to ask a question about a firm when you've given out a brochure and then talked to them about the firm's expectations is pissing into the wind. Like what do you want them to ask? How often do you guys have firm bbq's?
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Ani posted:You should convey that you have spent 2-3 hours researching the firm and envisioning working there and ask questions that would naturally arise out of that. They don't have to be particularly insightful, but should at least make sense. Easy questions are asking about the assignment system (free market vs rotations, how does it work in practice?), main practice areas especially when interviewing with someone who works in those areas, recent deals or cases (if the interviewer worked on them) or what kind of work junior associates will be getting and how that changes as you get more senior. That should be able to chew up 5-10 minutes, which is all you really need (and you can ask the same questions to each person at the same firm when you do a callback). You can also get the interviewers talking by asking them about their typical day or most interesting deal/case, and since lawyers love telling their boring war stories, it'll make them like you more as well. This should legit be put into one of the first posts. I'm still of a mind that finding a "dream firm" is artificially created by the industry a la "dream college," but if the game must be played, these questions seem helpful.
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SlyFrog posted:My career services office gave us actively stupid advice. Like not merely being passively negligent in not preparing us, but affirmatively telling us to ask about things like work/life balance, etc. The valedictorian at my school always gave a speech at the dinner the night before graduation, in addition to the convocation address. Two years before me the guy commented that the two primary career services people were leaving for new jobs at the end of the year and said, "Bringing the total number of people getting jobs through career services to two."
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Aug 20, 2018 21:40
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Toona the Cat posted:IANAL but this seems like a good call Goddamn it Toona we don't deserve this kind of quality.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:36
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032247043992023040 Cooley grad.
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Aug 22, 2018 14:48
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Mr. Nice! posted:Will california take my MBE scores from February this year and will you pay my fees? If yes to both, California sounds better than florida California doesn't even do waive in. If you practice for four(?) years you get the honor of only having to take the essay portion.
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Aug 23, 2018 04:47
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Yeah but if you get a job in forensic pathology or as a medical examiner it's because you have a broken brain and enjoy it I think Ya they generally don't even see the bodies as former people.
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Aug 24, 2018 15:19
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joat mon posted:Pictures are just data. Process what you need and leave the rest. I saw a case against the creepy uncle who molested his niece where the adorable 5-year old victim took the stand, was asked a question, thought about it and said "I don't really remember because I was only 4!" while holding up 4 fingers. Judge could have just skipped right to Sentencing because there is no loving way you're getting acquitted after that.
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Aug 24, 2018 16:00
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Criminal law is the only law that makes me feel like I'm making a difference and the thing I'm working on matters.
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Aug 24, 2018 18:26
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Criminal law is full of magic bullets, especially in magistrate court.
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Aug 25, 2018 16:24
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ActusRhesus posted:A. They have that? Of course they do. *sigh* Oh come on, you're a prosecutor, you can't be this naive.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:35
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ActusRhesus posted:Look. I can snicker and cringe at bioware’s incredibly awkward sex scenes. But actually VR banging one? That is a bridge I simply cannot cross. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t kink shame. But... Dear God you need to spend time on Deviantart or something if that's over the kink line.
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Aug 29, 2018 22:05
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evilweasel posted:pretty much. take anything that (a) looks interesting; (b) looks easy as poo poo; (c) will make studying for the bar exam easier If there is something on the bar that you have never taken, and your eyes glaze over when someone talks about it, might be helpful to take it. Trusts and Estates and Business Associations especially are pretty dense to learn in a month and a half.
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Aug 30, 2018 19:59
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I'd hesitate to charge that poo poo. Jesus.
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Sep 4, 2018 14:42
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I discovered an officer who wrote the report wasn't the one who found the marijuana or paraphernalia only after I put him on the stand. This was half-day bench trial where the actual useful officer wasn't available. It's not like I didn't talk to him. I guess I was too naive when he tells me, "Then we found it" when he really means, "Deputy X found it 5 minutes before I showed up."
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Pook, I like you. But I hope the charges were dismissed with prejudice or something. I had evidence logs and the evidence document that was properly filled out by the officer in court and a description of where the items were found, so I got the stuff in. Plus she also told the officer on the stand something like "I don't know why I brought that weed, I could have bought some here" (she was leaving a music festival). And the defense counsel didn't make the chain of evidence objection nor a hearsay objection about info in the evidence log about where the items were found. The bigger problem is the motion to suppress/dismiss that was orally heard at the close of testimony. The biggest issue is her statements about ownership she made after the officers had found the stuff, they asked her to sit in the front seat of the cruiser while they wrote up the tickets. That's better than the back seat, but it's likely the judge will say it's "custodial" for Miranda purposes. Frankly, if it's up to me I don't give a poo poo about weed and a one-hitter. Even if I win I'm not gonna ask for jail, just the minimum fines.
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