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i think it would NOT be okay
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*stares at camera, shrugs shoulders* "Eh, it's a living"
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Aug 18, 2018 17:10
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Dick The Butcher had the right idea.
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Aug 18, 2018 17:12
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you don't have to be a shitbag and in fact as far as "professionals" go lawyers are held to some of the highest ethical standards
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Aug 18, 2018 17:12
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If you can’t be part of the solution, there’s plenty of money to be made being part of the problem.
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Aug 18, 2018 17:14
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Moridin920 posted:you don't have to be a shitbag and in fact as far as "professionals" go lawyers are held to some of the highest ethical standards Just look at wonderful human specimens Paul Manafort, Jay Bybee and John Yoo!
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Aug 18, 2018 17:14
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I object to this line of questioning.
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Aug 18, 2018 17:14
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I kind of wish I had become one. Instead I fell in the trap of studying what I wanted instead of what I was probably better suited for. Honestly I'd probably have gone the corporate lawyer route for the money so it's probably for the best.
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Aug 18, 2018 17:15
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Moridin920 posted:you don't have to be a shitbag and in fact as far as "professionals" go lawyers are held to some of the highest ethical standards lol
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Aug 18, 2018 17:19
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There are some good lawyers out there, like Alan Dershowitz.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:05
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Moridin920 posted:you don't have to be a shitbag and in fact as far as "professionals" go lawyers are held to some of the highest ethical standards  John Oliver did a good show recently on prosecutors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_b78GSBUs Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Aug 18, 2018 |
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Aug 18, 2018 18:06
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I want to wear one of those wigs.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:08
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Joust posted:I want to wear one of those wigs. 
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Aug 18, 2018 18:09
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buddy we already got a thread about vampires
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Aug 18, 2018 18:16
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Pawn 17 posted:
prosecutors aren't the only types of lawyers. You can't really say anything bad about public defenders aside from being incredibly overworked to the point where they can't adequately do the job they want to do. But that's the system's fault, not theirs.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:18
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yeah I eat rear end posted:prosecutors aren't the only types of lawyers. You can't really say anything bad about public defenders aside from being incredibly overworked to the point where they can't adequately do the job they want to do. But that's the system's fault, not theirs. I was just thinking the other day how public defenders have the most demoralizing job since the legal system is set up to where it's really important to have a lot of money to defend yourself. And those without money using public defenders are pretty much hosed from the get go.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:29
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So fake, like they’re not even trying. If I was on a jury I wouldn’t buy any of their arguments
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Aug 18, 2018 18:29
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Pawn 17 posted:I was just thinking the other day how public defenders have the most demoralizing job since the legal system is set up to where it's really important to have a lot of money to defend yourself. And those without money using public defenders are pretty much hosed from the get go. They are kind of like teachers, doing a thankless job without the tools to do it right. Except they also have a mountain of law school debt to worry about on top of everything.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:38
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The Management posted:So fake, like they’re not even trying. If I was on a jury I wouldn’t buy any of their arguments I was just messing with people to see who would notice. Here is the real. loving. deal. 
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Aug 18, 2018 18:45
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I would be the lawyer who comes back from the dead all like “hey rear end in a top hat, you tried to put a bunch of penalties and liens and my property and then you took out a hit on me through the state and tried to make it look gang related so you could claim all my property.” And then like some lovely politician would go to jail for a week and make a deal with the DA and be back out on the streets with another contract on my life, and I could come back from the dead again and press charges so he can do the same exact thing another week later.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:47
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DA's get a gun and a badge, which ive always thought sent a judge Dredd kind of message.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:52
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Joust posted:I was just messing with people to see who would notice. Mesut ozil is a judge?
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Aug 18, 2018 18:57
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I would be a lawyer if I could represent greedy corporate stooges during the day, but then use the information I have on them at night to kill them. And also I’m a dead cowboy reanimated by nanobots and the holographic head of Theodore Roosevelt is my sidekick who can’t really do much until season 3 where he gets his own body.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:04
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In The Bushes posted:I would be a lawyer if I could represent greedy corporate stooges during the day, but then use the information I have on them at night to kill them. And also I’m a dead cowboy reanimated by nanobots and the holographic head of Theodore Roosevelt is my sidekick who can’t really do much until season 3 where he gets his own body. when you kill someone you say your catchphrase, "I rest my case". Your arch enemy is a corrupt judge who murdered your partner (at your law firm, it's that kind of partner)
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Aug 18, 2018 19:09
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Hammerite posted:when you kill someone you say your catchphrase, "I rest my case". Your arch enemy is a corrupt judge who murdered your partner (at your law firm, it's that kind of partner) “You’ll pay for this, Judge Featherbottom!” I’ll scream. “Overruled! Hahaha!” The judge will laugh from the emergency ladder of their private helicopter.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:12
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Pawn 17 posted:
This is one type of lawyer What about all the public defenders doing it for poo poo pay and all the ridicule? The ACLU is lawyers.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:38
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Politicians are almost universally lawyers so while there are probably more good lawyers than bad imo, their ranks include objectively the worst people.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:45
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DogonCrook posted:Politicians are almost universally lawyers so while there are probably more good lawyers than bad imo, their ranks include objectively the worst people. Sure but that shouldn't tarnish the good lawyers just because they have the same profession. We need the good lawyers to balance with the bad ones.
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Aug 18, 2018 20:12
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Could you imagine a world without lawyers?
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Aug 18, 2018 20:24
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I actually really want to be and looking at it in the next couple years. My final gpa and general transcripts are poo poo though. Thanks for asking OP.
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Aug 18, 2018 20:32
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I’d be John Grisham’s The Street Lawyer.
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Aug 18, 2018 21:26
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Few hundred grand in loans, negligible job prospects, have to work hard? Think I’ll take a pass, pardner
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Aug 18, 2018 21:29
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Joust posted:I was just messing with people to see who would notice. Is there a word for the opposite of cross-eyed? Also is anyone else surprised moridin loves lawyers?
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Aug 18, 2018 21:33
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I sat down with a friend for coffee the other day. She’s just made associate at a major firm, makes mega money for someone in their early 20s. I asked her if she enjoyed her job and she said that it was mostly rote paperwork and examining contracts. It doesn’t give you that fuzzy ‘I’m doing something worthwhile’ feeling apparently. So basically we are all justified in mostly being barely literate tech nerds haha suck it chad lawyer geeks.
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Aug 18, 2018 21:36
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hey i screwed up at work and now i have to re-write these reports hey i screwed up at work and now some dude is going to prison for thirty years
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Aug 18, 2018 21:39
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If I was a lawyer and cared about how people thought about me I'd strive to be like Matt Damon in The Rainmaker. Since I don't though I'd strive to be like Harvey Specter in Suits. Both good lawyers, just in different ways.
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Aug 18, 2018 21:44
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I'm a lawyer AMA
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Aug 18, 2018 22:25
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I’m a lawyer. 10% of my practice is helping with estate planning or planning for end of life concerns and whose inheriting poo poo. 50% of it is conservatorship, guardianship, trust and estates, ie court supervised handling another dude’s money whether they are old and have dementia (conservatorship), a minor (guardianship), or dead (trust and estates). 30% litigation for all the (mostly) family fighting that goes on with the above. 10% appointed by court to represent elders typically in conservatorships. My field is good and nice, not usually cut throat, even in litigation.
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Aug 18, 2018 22:58
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Do admiralty lawyers get to wear cocked hats?
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Ocrassus posted:I sat down with a friend for coffee the other day. She’s just made associate at a major firm, makes mega money for someone in their early 20s. I asked her if she enjoyed her job and she said that it was mostly rote paperwork and examining contracts. It doesn’t give you that fuzzy ‘I’m doing something worthwhile’ feeling apparently. I know exactly what she is doing and it is 50 hours a week of document review. Stacks of boxes filled with memos and emails and what have you to be looked over. Lol sucks.
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