Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

What I like most is dealing with a huge range of interesting issues, and getting paid to have my other lawyers do the stuff I don't want to do.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Sounds like both of us are lucky. Events of this week keep reminding me that it can end any day, so count your blessings and don't take them for granted.

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Damn, now we're starting to sound like my sappy facebook exchanges.

I've found that when I fail to appreciate what I got, the best thing to do is go look elsewhere. Usually doesn't measure up. Of course, Obama hasn't yet offered me an ambassadorship.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

I like that too, but I refer to them as my "minions."

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Mine are "factotums."

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

This is a major change in tone from the original GA board.

TM

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Says Mr. "I Bill 1300 Hours."

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

But some of the other lawyers are my partners.

So I think Hank's "factotums" works better. Unless, of course, you're talking about my factotums' minions.

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It gets better: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...ushpmg00000078

I really wish they still allowed duels.

Re: This is amazing.
 

Alcee Hastings was impeached by Congress when he was a federal judge. I would imagine that he truly doesn't give a fuck.

Re: This is amazing.
 

Texas restricts the number of dildos you can own, but not the number of guns?

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According to the article, it wasn't a restriction so much as an evidentiary presumption that if you owned more than six, you were “promoting” them.

If Texas had a similar presumption for guns, they’d sell by the half-dozen.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

The Economist on American Sniper. What do you think, Sidd?

Re: This is amazing.
 

Not anymore. Gregg Abbot lost that particular case.

You guys don't remember this? For the first half dozen years or so of this board, I ranted and raved against that law and openly defied it.

Re: This is amazing.
 

on any given night I might prefer a particular variety of wine, this is why I stock a cellar. is it that way with dildos?

Re: This is amazing.
 

Lady walks into a marital aide store and seems kinda self conscious. “How much for the pink one?” she asks, pointing to the shelf behind the counter. “Twenty bucks.” “Um, how much for the, uh, black one?” “Fifty bucks.” “And how much is that plaid one?” “Plaid one? Oh, that’s a hundred.” She buys it and leaves. Owner returns from lunch and asks the clerk how’s business. “Not bad. I sold your Thermos for a hundred bucks.”

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I remember. Civil disobedience at its finest. You are our Ghandiji.

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I remember it. At one point, I believe you advocated open carry.

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This may be the one instance in which concealed carry is actually less polite.

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My friend who once worked for AVN reviewing dildos and other assorted toys goes by the Playa name Plaid. I wonder if she got the name through your joke.

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Openly? Too easy.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Of the myriad grievances I had with the nature of the legal business model, keeping time was a top three annoyance. It's all about being constantly disciplined and conscientious, which is seriously fucking boring. The work itself is detailed enough. Who the fuck wants to try to rewind several hours of phone calls and emails from several people, and paper creation, to submit a pre-bill? Particularly when most of the work is done in furious bursts so one can get back to reading stuff like... this board. Hmmm... How much time would such a motion cost if like a good, slow, methodical worker bee drafted it?

Alternatively, like one guy I knew who did his all of bills three days before the end of the month - recreating his time from docs created and phone logs - it's "Brian Williams" billing.

Life's mundane enough. No one needs the added insult of keeping a log of all the mostly pointless and inconsequential things on which he's dicked away half his waking hours.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Yeah, if only we all had the cohones to just send Wachtell bills to everyone. I-bankers did it with the "Lehman" formula, aka the double Lehman, aka the Lehman-with-a-twist-and-a-double-axel. The presence of a big cheese's name on the formula and the fact that the whole industry did it helped make it stick.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Rumor around the VC world here is that Jack Levin once sent a client a 7-figure bill with the simple descriptor "value added."

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Jack is great. Second only to Marty in the pantheon of tax lawyers imho. I assume the client paid it.

I used to love the breakfasts at the end of the taxapalooza sessions I attended back in the 90s, before I left tax, when Jack and the gang dirtied whiteboards. Only once did I actually venture to the whiteboard....

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Re the conversation we have had about religion and the causes of violence, this book review is two months old but I just saw it yesterday and thought it was very good.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

I was not only at the white board, I was pulled up there by Mark Silverman, Levin's heir in the Tax Section. I'm counting that toward my 15 minutes.

No, no, baby - this ain't living.
 

I could be wrong, but one example of the (alleged) bad things done by the bank described in this article could be a case of where Big Data was used to help the bank racially discriminate by "steering." http://www.propublica.org/article/ho...source=twitter

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On my whiteboard time, Silverman told me he learned something. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a 337(b)(2)(B) issue involving the restructuring of a hospital network. I felt the same rush I felt when Joey Ramone bled on me.

Ah, memories....

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

You transactional folks are ADORABLE with your war stories.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Look, Grinch, getting called to the whiteboard by Silverman is right up in the tax world with getting a belly-laugh from Teller in the world of comedy. Look on his works and despair!

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Yes, Mr. Gubmint lawyer. Please regale us with yet another story of the zoning wars.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Did I ever tell you about the deal I did where the entire negotiations took place in a room in the Explorer's Club in New York in the shadow of an 8 foot whale penis?

Yeah, let's see if the Gubmint lawyer has a zoning story like that!

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Pretty sure he told me about one of his cases where opposing counsel was a walking, talking, six-foot penis. No wait -- that was when I was a litigator.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

RT has successfully taught us that calling someone a vagina (pussy) can hardly be a slur. Why do you persist in making the male organ an insult?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Obama lied.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Thank you for trying to make me a better person.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I'm shocked. That a man who was elected President could get there by using dishonesty and posturing. I feel so disillusioned.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

"And people die-- errr, uh... wound up with a President who helped create conditions which allowed people discriminated against to get married!"

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.