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Yup. Early in my practice I put a jury demand in a Chancery General Equity Complaint. I say put in, loosely, I used the form for our law division complaints, changed the facts and the court title and filed it. Judge's secretary called me to let me know that the judge wanted me to know that his courtroom has literally no jury box and he wasn't going to build one for me.
Probably the best way is to commit fraud on the Court, leaving yourself open to the judgment being nullified at any time during your life and leaving yourself open to contempt and fraud charges, including criminal charges. Google Teresa Giudice.
Sure. Let me know when you end up in prison. I might know someone who can slip you an extra jello cup on Sundays.
She was stuck in Municipal. The 11th floor of the Daley Center is a cattle-call. A collections attorney will stand there for 20 straight cases asking for $200-$500 judgments against people who can't pay. She eventually became a pre-trial judge for Municipal jury trials. That's where she handled the slip and falls and fender benders.
Ugh, that's awful. Is that just how Cook County is organized, or all of Illinois? In "my" states, with the exception of North Carolina (which has two tiers of county courts), if you're a county judge the only real divisions are civil/criminal/probate/family.
"Your honor, if you'll pull out the Federal Rules, I can show you the sentence that allows this in Rule 69(2)."
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No better time to cite rule 69 than during oral argument to a Judge whose sex is opposite of one's own.
Did i tell the board about my outside counsel who showed up drunk (and continued to drink) during a court mandated mediation where the demand was $40m?PS anyone got any stories of other lawyers' unethical/unprofessional behavior that shocked you?
I have tried to type several that I know of. All give too much information. Taking out the information makes it not funny. I'm stuck.PS anyone got any stories of other lawyers' unethical/unprofessional behavior that shocked you?
Many years ago a guy I went to law school with got caught getting oral sex from a prostitute inside the criminal courthouse. Not his client nor was he a prosecutor.PS anyone got any stories of other lawyers' unethical/unprofessional behavior that shocked you?
Ehhhh some times these descriptions may or may not actually be based in reality or fact.
I arrived at the office shortly after she left, but a younger, relatively good-looking female attorney was caught getting it from behind by a client/inmate in the attorney-client booth at a jail.* She then, while her disciplinary action was pending and she was basically on probation, manipulated the case assignment system so she was assigned to the same client's/inmate's new case.PS anyone got any stories of other lawyers' unethical/unprofessional behavior that shocked you?
When I was a baby lawyer, I was covering a deposition of a Louisiana State Trooper in a death case involving a truck disabled on the shoulder of I-55 which was struck from behind by a pickup in which deceased plaintiff was a passenger. During the course of the deposition, scumbag plaintiff's lawyer presented the Trooper with a diagram from his accident report, altered by the plaintiff lawyer, to show that the truck trailer was in the roadway at the time of the accident. The Trooper's actual report showed the trailer completely on the shoulder of the interstate. I've never objected so hard and so true in my entire legal career as I did that day.PS anyone got any stories of other lawyers' unethical/unprofessional behavior that shocked you?
Not necessarily a "game", but several years ago a prosecutor and I (both assigned to the same misdemeanor court at the time) had a sort of "agreement"* where neither of us would strike any decently attractive female under 35 in the jury pool. He created this game on his belief that he'd "never lose to [me] in any sort of competition involving hot girls." Despite this insistence, and probably have more to do with the fact he was a pretty terrible prosecutor, I never lost to him (4-0 IIRC).
The first one is really a non-issue. Setting up an LLC is paralegal stuff, and its common practice for a single purpose real estate LLC to be named after the property. If the client doesn't make a point of asking for a particular name, I don't think he can complain if the para doesn't call to ask him what he wants to call his LLC. It can easily be changed anyway. The second one really depends on the circumstances.
Imposter is a good word. Lots of days it feels like I somehow have duped everyone around me for 15 years into thinking I belong. Other days I look around and think, "damnit people, pull your weight."
Alright, here's one. Someone in my law school class who I knew pretty well is now in prison for using settlement money that he held in trust to fund personal business interests including, but not limited to, a synthetic marijuana ring.PS anyone got any stories of other lawyers' unethical/unprofessional behavior that shocked you?
Assuming CA is similar enough to AZ (which it may not be), that's a relatively minor violation and, in the event a petition to revoke his probation b/c of the violation (or, there could just be an "order to show cause" hearing for contempt), it could take some time to figure out the sanctions/sentence.
... that sucks.