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I always relate it back to basketball. A charge is a charge whether or not the defensive player hits the floor. A charge is not a charge just because the defensive player hit the floor. Sometimes a charge should be called even if the defensive player is moving. If your goal is to act like you're playing good defense, instead of actually playing good defense, you should be penalized. You should be given a technical every time you flop. That would at least do away with the egregious ones.

The way "defensive player" lines up perfectly here three times has to involve a what -- 1 in 10,000 chance?

God was I drunk last night. I have to see someone about this. It had to be close to a whole bottle of gin. Cigars made it even worse.

Atticus Grinch

06-12-2010 02:29 PM

Re: I am not crazy- item #367

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 426320)

my fave class claim story- I'm a scared new associate at big law- the biggest client of the baddest mo-fo there is Chrysler.

soon after I started I got a notice I was a class P in a suit against chrysler over lease terms. I stood to get $3! I was afraid to join in, since they were my firm's client, you know? was it wrong to cash the check? BUT, opting out seemed worse because it hinted of a stand alone suit.

I was afraid to ask anyone, because it semed like I should know what to do, I mean considering I'd gone t law school and all. what to do what to do?

They had car leases in the '70s?

When I did plaintiff-side class actions in my first job, we were taught to write class definitions that excluded the defendants' employees, lawyers, children and pool cleaners. Not because we wanted to save some Biglaw associate from the agony of a conflict of interest, but because it helped avoid an commonality argument when moving for class cert. Sounds to me like you should sue the class rep's lawyer for malpractice.

Icky Thump

06-12-2010 02:40 PM

Re: I am not crazy- item #367

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 426327)

Flashback. Forgot that part, "excluded from the class are Ctrl C, Ctrl V."

Hank Chinaski

06-12-2010 05:46 PM

Re: I am not crazy- item #367

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 426327)

lawyers in the class matters, or all lawyers for all matters? and every lawyer at every firm? I assume this was an early draft. what was your final language? my god atticus, that exclusion has more holes than the Jarlsberg we had last night

Atticus Grinch

06-12-2010 06:44 PM

Re: I am not crazy- item #367

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 426329)

Do I ask you to have perfect recall of your first job sucking dick for a piece of rock? No, sir, I do not.

Adder

06-13-2010 12:04 AM

Anybody know?

Where I left my ambition? I think I lost it somewhere around 3 years in at biglaw, such that all I really, truly want to do is retire. Perhaps that is related to not really having any real goals after law school (which is related to not knowing any lawyers before law school). But lately I have keep running I to lawyer friend who remind me of when I was ambitious and wondering where I went off the tracks.

Flinty_McFlint

06-13-2010 01:24 AM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 426331)

My ambition left just around the time I paid off law school, and then reared its ugly head when childcare expenses started piling up. Please do not take this post as a suggestion to procreate. Thank you.

patentparanyc

06-13-2010 04:37 PM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 426331)

really, I'm a glutton for punishment because you are so cliqueish and exlusionary to me. **part of that mean streak stems from being unhappy I should know that one....But I am actually a motivated person. I work in biglaw long hours, I work out I'm in law school and I study round the clock and have kids.

I went thru a stage of lethargy. fat, TM met me at the height of that.

you may be younger than I am I'm mid thirties....

but I envision myself to be 50 and still in the same spot. and I freak and get motivated. there are other ways to do it but in simple basic terms

set a goal. being in shape- running a marathon and hit it. set another goal however modest and hit it out of the park, you will find the motivation come back.

you are welcome.

sebastian_dangerfield

06-13-2010 07:39 PM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 426331)

You've been given a chance to do something really ambitious - to get out of a wheel-spinning, oversaturated industry and into something far more lucrative or fulfilling. You're young enough and have background to get into a job where you'll be hiring someone to do your scrivener work.

I say find your ambition and make use of your opportunity.* Even if you make less than you did before just doing what you like, you'll be miles better off. Because once you get settled, or get kids, taking risks gets way trickier. You can easily wake up one day and think, "Shit. I always thought I should have tried to (insert thing you wanted to do), and now it's too late."

(*Don't let it be in entertainment or media. Everybody in that talks big numbers, but they're all alligator arms when it comes to actually putting cash on the table.)

Hank Chinaski

06-13-2010 09:20 PM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by patentparanyc (Post 426333)

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I went thru a stage of lethargy. fat, TM met me at the height of that.

thurgreed marshall meets PPNYC part 2?

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set a goal. being in shape- running a marathon and hit it. set another goal however modest and hit it out of the park, you will find the motivation come back.

you are welcome.

i think his goal is to have vaginal insertion with a live lady. do you know any lady who likes to have sex with strangers?

Gattigap

06-13-2010 09:36 PM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 426334)

(*don't let it be in entertainment or media. Everybody in that talks big numbers, but they're all alligator arms when it comes to actually putting cash on the table.)

Tyrone Slothrop

06-14-2010 12:15 AM

Heinzing

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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 426244)

It will never be that. People still call the place where the Sox play "Comiskey" and it hasn't had that name since 2003.

I still call it Pac Bell Park, RBOC consolidation be damned.

Secret_Agent_Man

06-14-2010 12:50 AM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 426334)

I say find your ambition and make use of your opportunity.* Even if you make less than you did before just doing what you like, you'll be miles better off. Because once you get settled, or get kids, taking risks gets way trickier. You can easily wake up one day and think, "Shit. I always thought I should have tried to (insert thing you wanted to do), and now it's too late."

True Dat.

As the hardest working associate (at the time) in my firm told me about 10 years ago: "If you really want to do something else, get out now because once you have kids, you're stuck." [He had 4.]

That's not the absolute truth, but its close. Wish I had taken his advice.

S_A_M

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

06-14-2010 08:14 AM

Re: Anybody know?

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Originally Posted by Secret_Agent_Man (Post 426338)

That's not the absolute truth, but its close. Wish I had taken his advice.

S_A_M

On the kids or the job?

Fugee

06-14-2010 08:57 AM

That annoying buzz

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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 426292)

Thanks, but I'm set with my vuvuzela iPhone app.

Until I read an article this weekend, I didn't know whether that really annoying buzz was a normal part of soccer games or not.

As irritating as it is for watching/listening to broadcasts, it must be almost intolerable for the spectators -- at least the ones who aren't South African. I'm guessing this will be a factor in future World Cup venue decisions.

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