Henry Ford
Footballguy
I prepped for three days. Motion for summary judgment that I could have demolished if the hearing was today on purely procedural grounds. Granting it would have been reversible error.
Damn it.
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The Lawyer Thread Where We Stop Ruining Other Threads (4 Viewers)
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Damn it.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
I have a young friend and Ropes and Gray. 1600 or 1800 "requirement." But if you don't bill 2000, there's a discussion with your partner about what the problem is with your billing.
T Bell
Footballguy
That's poor form on the part of the court. Granted the court should have been prepared, but failing that the court should have contacted you yesterday and advised you that it was continuing the hearing to a future date.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
The clerk showed me the docket. Under "Issue" it said "haven't had time to read and consider. Continue 60 days." They typed it yesterday.
That's crap. I was supposed to have a hearing this morning that the judge knew he wasn't going to be ready for. He had his clerk call us on Wednesday and we rescheduled over the phone.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
So you were somewhere other than bum#### Louisiana, then?
T Bell
Footballguy
60? 60 ####### days?
You've gotta be ####### kidding me! Is the judge dyslexic?
I hope you told the clerk that you'd be happy to help him with the big words...
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yeah, but I said it as "thank you, your Honor."
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Lol.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Oh,and new MSJ hearing is 45 days before trial.
I have a divorce trial in two weeks. My client doesn't understand why a case like hers has to go to trial. I explained to her that in order for there not to be a trial she and her husband have to settle their differences--maintenance and what to do with an investment property. We made an offer. He made a counter-offer. She got mad because it was too low and refused to budge from her offer. She then told me this is not a case that should go to trial. I told her that in order for there not to be a trial they had to settle their differences. She told me this case should settle. I told her to lower her offer. She still hasn't called me back.
She is right about one thing; this is a case that should settle. But it will be my pleasure to go to trial.
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Non-attorney here, big fan of this thread.
Instinctive - your posts are interesting and help reinforce my decision to not go to law school. Bar review sounds pretty good though.
Question for you guys, something that's intrigued me for awhile. I was reading about the somewhat recent - a few months ago now - Argentinian debt default. The things I've read and heard seem to indicate the Argentina basically assigned legal jurisdiction to the United States....something like that? So that when the bondholders took the Argentinian government to court, it went through the US court system. Per Wiki: "As part of the restructuring process, Argentina drafted agreements in which repayments would be handled through a New York corporation and governed by United States law." How does this work? It kinda fascinates me how a sovereign country would just willingly allow the US courts to have jurisdiction over their own sovereign debt. Is this a common thing? Is there any way to explain it to a non-attorney like me without making my eyes glaze over?
Instinctive - your posts are interesting and help reinforce my decision to not go to law school. Bar review sounds pretty good though.
Question for you guys, something that's intrigued me for awhile. I was reading about the somewhat recent - a few months ago now - Argentinian debt default. The things I've read and heard seem to indicate the Argentina basically assigned legal jurisdiction to the United States....something like that? So that when the bondholders took the Argentinian government to court, it went through the US court system. Per Wiki: "As part of the restructuring process, Argentina drafted agreements in which repayments would be handled through a New York corporation and governed by United States law." How does this work? It kinda fascinates me how a sovereign country would just willingly allow the US courts to have jurisdiction over their own sovereign debt. Is this a common thing? Is there any way to explain it to a non-attorney like me without making my eyes glaze over?
Instinctive
Footballguy
He was ver clear that this is the bonus benchmark. They're very proud of it. He said their reputation is a bit outdated in that they have changed a lot to combat some of the negatives but it hasn't become mainstream knowledge yet. Idk if that's true or not, obviously, since I havent worked as an attorney anywhere. But thought it interesting.
Mister Martie
Footballguy
lol @ "precedencies (previous judgments)"
If this is a fishing trip, you sure put a lot of time in. If not, start looking for a new school.
If this is a fishing trip, you sure put a lot of time in. If not, start looking for a new school.
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Instinctive
Footballguy
Awesome. OMG awesome. I needed this today. Thank you. The misspelled and the incorrect terms make me feel like this education is in fact worth something.
Gandalf the Grey
Footballguy
I could barely understand that. That poor academic advisor, no wonder he ignored it, he'd have to hire a translator of gobbledy#### to get through that mess.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Gandalf the Grey
Footballguy
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Whatever you paid for the Composition class was clearly too much. I support a full refund, you've been cheated.
Listen guys, I don't know any legal mumbo jumbo but I know that common sense prevails.
1.) Nowhere in the syllabus of Composition I does it state that a 70% is required to achieve credit in the class. I ended up with a 69.5%.
2.) I would have passed the class had my instructor accepted an assignment I turned in late my 1st week of class. He cited the syllabus as the reasoning he could not accept the grade.
3.) Within the 1st week of the class, I was getting an 'F' in the class. I left a voicemail with my Academic Advisor which she did not respond about potentially dropping the class. I then e-mailed my instructor about dropping the class in which she took 4 business days to respond. What was the conclusion of the e-mail?
That I had 24 hours to decide if I wanted to drop the class for a half refund.
What type of institution ignores a voicemail, takes 4 days to respond to an e-mail, and then tells you that you have 24 hours to decide if you want to drop the class or not?
1.) Nowhere in the syllabus of Composition I does it state that a 70% is required to achieve credit in the class. I ended up with a 69.5%.
2.) I would have passed the class had my instructor accepted an assignment I turned in late my 1st week of class. He cited the syllabus as the reasoning he could not accept the grade.
3.) Within the 1st week of the class, I was getting an 'F' in the class. I left a voicemail with my Academic Advisor which she did not respond about potentially dropping the class. I then e-mailed my instructor about dropping the class in which she took 4 business days to respond. What was the conclusion of the e-mail?
That I had 24 hours to decide if I wanted to drop the class for a half refund.
What type of institution ignores a voicemail, takes 4 days to respond to an e-mail, and then tells you that you have 24 hours to decide if you want to drop the class or not?
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SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
1. Brevity. Live it, Learn it, Love it.
2. Why don't you just take the classes, do well in some, screw some, and get a classic 3.0? There's a lot of
'ing going on here.Gandalf the Grey
Footballguy
Lot more problems than brevity there.1. Brevity. Live it, Learn it, Love it.
2. Why don't you just take the classes, do well in some, screw some, and get a classic 3.0? There's a lot of
Frostillicus
Footballguy
I'm not a lawyer, but I just want to say OMG.
Em,
No offense but do you really need to F*** up an actual good thread with your nonsense?
Nonsense? I am being screwed out of $400+ due to my College's lack of ability to communicate. All I am asking is for a 50% refund and for the grade to be expunged. Which isn't unreasonable considering I likely would have dropped the class if:
1.) It was made known to me that a 70% was needed to pass.
2.) I was given more than a 24 hours notice to drop.
The College has an opportunity to set things right by admitting a hole in their curriculum by not listing the requirements to PASS THE CLASS in the syllabus and making amends for a boner made by one of their academic advisors.
Tell me how I'm wrong.
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Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
No.
Nobody is interested in your predicament. It's nothing any of us would take on as a matter. That doesn't mean that you can't try to be such a pain in the ### that the college refunds you some money. People do that all the time.
But nobody here is interested in it, and nobody's going to give you any advice, because that advice would boil down to "turn in your work on time and try to know the grading requirements in any class you decide to take."
Dude, nobody's posted in this thread for 4 days now. I was attempting to get some type of read on whether I was on the right path to getting my $400 back and the grade expunged. I figure since everyone enjoyed chastising me in other threads about how low my GPA was, that an attempt to expunge a "D" from my record would garner similar interest, no?
If not, then they were clearly only being spiteful in which case gives me even more fuel to want to be spiteful and annoy other people on these boards. What goes around comes around, right?
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Cmon...
I wouldn't buy into that at all. There's no way a Skadden associate who is billing 1600 is considered to be performing well notwithstanding bonus eligibility or whatever.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Zow
Footballguy
Just saw this. Will respond in due time.
Update: There are rumors of such, but no book that any of my PI attorney friends are aware of. I tried to track one down awhile back as well on my only PI case and came up empty.
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Zow
Footballguy
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Zow
Footballguy
Zing away, my good man. For today I made an injured person whole. And by that I mean I got him some money he can blow on frivolous items while his quality of life is forever diminished because of the injuries he suffered that were caused by someone else/others.You representing the bakery or the customer?Bragging time: just settled my first relatively big tort case.
T Bell
Footballguy
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
It wasn't a zing...it was a pun.Zing away, my good man. For today I made an injured person whole. And by that I mean I got him some money he can blow on frivolous items while his quality of life is forever diminished because of the injuries he suffered that were caused by someone else/others.You representing the bakery or the customer?Bragging time: just settled my first relatively big tort case.
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
"This is your last warning. I will not threaten to not enroll in your PowerPoint course again."
Mister Martie
Footballguy
joffer
Footballguy
I hear they cover "fly in/out" animations the first week@ a PowerPoint class at "college."
Otis
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
You're going to work. A lot. You're going to work late nigts. They'll feed you to make you feel better. You're going to work weekends. You're going to miss fun things in your life. You are inevitably going to work for at least one (1) stressed out major #####. You won't like it. In the end you're going to make some money and wear your hours number like a twisted badge of honor.
Welcome, my son, to associate life at a big law firm. We've been expecting you.
Welcome, my son, to associate life at a big law firm. We've been expecting you.
Otis
Footballguy
PS...you're not going to change the world in any appreciable way. You're a cog,one of thousands, inside a machine which understands that your useful life is limited given the system and billing rates. The machine expects, no, needs you statistically to wash out in a few years to make room for the new crop.
the rover
Footballguy
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