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_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_blink]

so, for the cost of a Starbucks + whatever euros a dairy milk mint thing costs, you can get them almost anytime.

the Clarice express is open.

[xp_banshee]

That's such an amazing offer! I don't want to take advantage of you, either.

[xp_blink]

that's why you buy me the Starbucks.

I haven't bought Starbucks since 2005

[xp_cypher]

(phrasing)

[xp_blink]

(intentional)

[xp_cypher]

(it is known)

[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_darcy]

You and Terry, my delightful little bloodthirsty wonders.

[xp_bevatron]

One has a reputation to uphold, after all.

[xp_banshee]

Well, only when they deserve it.

[xp_banshee]

To answer your question, I'm sure that's not how actual nostalgia works, but if a popular revolution should begin brewing, I'd support utilizing Mme Guillotine and un bonnet rouge on multiple world leaders. And former world leaders.

[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