LOLZ @ LAWYERS

but seriously, if you want a little street cred, just get some CGI rappers to do the job for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEWHy6khZw

i got spam from these dickheadz

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/green-winick-notice-appear-court-malware.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRIk1zEiGwM

Soon as I saw this site I thought "must be in California"
http://edelson.com/

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/lawyers-with-lowest-pay-report-more-happiness/

I think Carl is going to disagree with this.

Oh, no, that makes sense. I don't think I'd be happier if I had a partner track associate job. I'd be happiest if my the pay/demands of my current job were in line with each other, either making what I make now and having the flexibility I was promised when I accepted the salary, or paid market rate for the work I do. That still wouldn't be associate-level pay but it also wouldn't be associate level work or hassle.

the scene from "silicon valley" where the dude has a drink with a failed designer/inventor and they figure out that if he had taken less venture capital he would've managed expectations and might still have his company is something i think about a lot lately

cross-posted from lolz thread:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/07/28/mom-throws-dream-party-for-personal-injury-lawyer-obsessed-toddler/

I wonder how much of that is legit the kid's interest and how much is the parent. I have a coworker who says her three year old is obsessed with The Beatles so they got him tons of Beatles junk for his Beatles-themed 3rd birthday. Like, is he really that into the Beatles? I just find that hard to believe. But my kid's only 20 months so if we were going to have a party themed after interest it would be about blueberries, TV remotes, and digging through the trash can.

my dog is about to turn 14 and digging through the trash is still her #1 interest

Toddlers can wind up having strange obsessions. When I was 3 I was obsessed with Vice President bush because his motorcade went by our apartment frequently.

K went through a phase where I had to explain to her over and over again what a refrigerator does. She called it "tell me story about refrigerators"

what a refrigerator does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAubcIUr82I

^still one of the top twenty best live shows i've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0XWSBAe-1U&feature=youtu.be&t=1m09s

ff to 1m 09 s

that's why they call it jones day night and weekends lololol

MY BEST MEMORIES, ONCE ALL FIRSTLIFE MEMORIES WERE ERASED FROM MINDDRIVE, ARE THE ALL-NIGHTERS

clause 9.2, been there man

nothing gets the heart racing quite like memories of billable hours past

The twinkle in his eyes as he drops his guard a bit really pulls it through for me.

There's a lot, and nothing at all, going on in those 44 seconds.

i watched it again. he has the face of a man who hasn't slept in years. it's all about the written word.

He has wet eyes

...and is unconciously shaking his head "NO NO NO". It's a sad sick world and the good times have been gone for about 20 years or so.

relatedly

"One thing ... that's very different from 10 years ago is that associates have a perspective on balance that was never discussed before," Kowalczyk said. "Finding a firm in a regional legal market that allows them to do quality work, get paid well and still go home to their families at 8 p.m. is very attractive."

was gonna put this on the lindsay lohan hot ready and legal thread but it's a long thread
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2015/11/young-ready-on-body-worn-camera-activation-among-police-officers.html

better call barry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb3gPWoKZ84

http://i.imgur.com/Bq3AlqQ.jpg

love those forfeiture captions they never get old

They're like little portraits of lives.

DEA case in California from what I can see in pacer. What a pulp character.

I made this

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xal1/v/t1.0-9/13102871_10156766601330304_7771361438783094901_n.jpg?oh=22ccd28f17a64da7d24a991e909e1c62&oe=57B04285

http://www.rossintelligence.com/lawyers/

https://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/appdiv/manualonstyle.pdf

hahaha

was really hoping the whole thing would be in comic sans and not just the cover

https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/5415028177800239645

lolz

http://i.imgur.com/DjtqCaI.png

Wertkin, who worked in Washington for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, believed he would hand a copy of a complaint to an employee of the company, which was accused in the complaint by a whistle-blower of falsely billing the government. Wertkin, who was wearing a wig and using the name of Dan, was met instead by an FBI agent, according to arrest documents unsealed on Feb. 6.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/akin-gump-lawyer-accused-of-trying-to-sell-lawsuit-under-seal

false dan

wertkin'd

https://i.imgur.com/qjel5f1.jpg

How did those children graduate with her?

do you ever start to read a transcript of yourself feeling dread you will look like an idiot, keep reading, then say damn this is some good lawyering who is this

he he

https://i.imgur.com/CGcHRsk.jpg

CLE is such a fucking scam. I'm trying to get 24 credits done in a week (oops). I bought one of those online packages -- all you have to do is leave it running very quietly in the background, because the videos pause when the code you need to demonstrate participation is given out. The one I'm watching now is about wellness for lawyers and literally included a guided meditation.

loool I'm in the same position as my last revive two years ago. Today's BS CLE was on how not to be stressed or some bullshit.