lawyer lawyering

[xp_daredevil]

my intention, for those that don't know, in law school was to become a defense attorney. That was waylaid by a few things and I ended up here, which is great. Not a lot of need for defense though.



So I'm watching the indictment today, following the case, and I just gotta say. I WOULD NOT TAKE THIS CASE. FUCK NO.

1. he has a reputation and history of not paying his attorneys.

2. he has a history and reputation of asking/forcing his counsel to commit crimes on his behalf
2a. some of his former counsel have already gone to jail on his behalf

3. while the case is a career maker, it will break any career just as much

4. it is a full time case that would preclude taking or continuing any other clients

so I'm terrified to see what counsel will take this.

Comments

[xp_hawkeye]

I mean, if nobody volunteers, I assume he gets a what's it called, a public defender, right? Now that person I'd feel sorry for.

[xp_daredevil]

theoretically, yes.

but some hack will take it. probably because they think they're Atticus Finch. Hell, we've already seen his "spokesperson" read a statement today
That she could read that without laughing is astounding and she's a lawyer!

[xp_hawkeye]

I mean, I know you're not wrong and that makes me sad. I guess we just hope the criminal justice system actually does it fucking job.

[xp_daredevil]

well, that its gotten this far is already the justice system doing its job so... cautiously optimistic?

[xp_cypher]

Just...imagine for a second that guy represneting himself pro se. Because you know he would.

[xp_hawkeye]

jfc he would. And it'd be even more of a circus than it already is.

[xp_daredevil]

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

you've been naughty. go to my room.

[xp_darcy]

I'm sure there's plenty of ready-to-retire or minimum-pass bar exam types ready to go.

But not any of the lawyers we know. Thor's hammer, I'd hate to be the unfortunate PD on the hook for it. I think I'd find a new profession.

[xp_daredevil]

drinks at Josie's tonight with Foggy and Marci?

[xp_darcy]

Maybe one round as long as I get fed, too.

[xp_daredevil]

sure. dinner not at Josie's

[xp_darcy]

As long as there's dinner. I can't drink on empty like I did in my 20s, it's terrible.

[xp_daredevil]

I'll let you pick where

[xp_darcy]

Corner Slice for pizza? It's not too far from Josie's.

[xp_wildchild]

Not a lawyer I just like watching that fucking guy burn

[xp_daredevil]

nothing wrong with that.

[xp_banshee]

Political leadership worldwide has been intensely disappointing these last several years.

[xp_daredevil]

truth. though, I do wonder how much is new incompetence and how much is being nostalgic about the past

[xp_banshee]

To a degree, but honestly. Nostalgia's me wishing I had easier access to a Dairy Milk Mint Crisp, not carrying about an explosive device because that's how it was back during the Troubles.

[xp_blink]

what's required to get a dairy milk mint crisp?

[xp_banshee]

Take a tripe to the UK or pay an absurd amount of money at a novelty store that'll ship it to me in the States. Or ask my grandda for a care package, but that feels like taking advantage and his health's not what it used to be.

[xp_bevatron]

Well, speak for yourself. I find myself nostalgic for Mme Guillotine and un bonnet rouge. Though to be fair, can one be nostalgic for a period several hundred years before one's birth?

Either way, I shall be humming la Marseillaise aggressively for at least the next day.

[xp_daredevil]

mmm. blood thirsty. I like it

[xp_colossus]

being nostalgic about the past

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Hammer_and_sickle.svg/640px-Hammer_and_sickle.svg.png

Not even a little. But a lot of people are.

[xp_daredevil]

pretty sure they're trying to ride again... because history likes to repeat itself