Won an issue at the trial court. State AG's office took a writ. Wrote a response. Circuit court denied writ. State AG's office appealed to LA Supreme Court. Wrote a response. LASC denied cert.
Then today I learn that my response I wrote to the State's request for summary dismissal in another case appears to have been successful, since an evidentiary hearing has been set.
Me IRL right now:
Me mentally right now:
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@moth
What state do you live in?
The law firm of Ganymede, Rinel, & Saosmash, LPA might able to find an answer.
Lord have mercy
Wow I get to use "as a trans person" in a convo and not cringe.
What you've done means more to your son than even you probably imagine. Having someone who supports us no matter what is indescribable. I know it hurts to cut people you love out of your life, but your son understands that you are doing it to protect him. And that's huge in a way I can't put into words.
You're a good parent.
@skew said in How to use Potato MU Client:
@Rinel Hate to be "that guy"... but you might want to just move to Beip.
https://musoapbox.net/topic/2676/how-to-beipmu-the-best-mu-client-for-windows
It has all the features of Potato, and then some. Most importantly it's actively developed and has great support.
I might check it out. Strangely enough, the Potato issue resolved itself. Or something. It's no longer happening.
I had to have my mother committed a little under a decade ago. I was 22. It was terrifying. She didn't want to go. She cried, begged, pleaded. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. She was out after a couple of months, and is now fully recovered. We have never been closer, or more loving.
I have one thing of advice. Go see him. Every day, if you can. It is scary in those places. Even if he doesn't want to see you (and he will want to see you), keep going, every day, in case he changes his mind. Just knowing he has the option to see his parent will mean everything to him. Being there for him during visiting will help so, so much.
Good luck. I know it's hard. It will get better.
IIRC you're a robot and therefore do not like anything except eating batteries and drinking motor oil
I'm sick
I'm stressed
I don't know whether the law I dug up yesterday means I've triggered a statewide crisis or whether I misunderstood and overreacted and will look like an idiot
my fucking hair is still not growing back
I like this model, and if we can land government contracts we'll be able to be more flexible in our billing, but we do have to keep the doors open. Nobody makes over 30k at our firm right now. I'd be comfortable charging flat fees for misdemeanors, but I handle almost exclusively PCR cases--and we literally charge an order of magnitude less than many other attorneys.
I'd like to see a shift towards blended arrangements in non-criminal law. I don't think flat fees are realistic anywhere. Unfortunately, in criminal law, I don't see an alternative to the billable. My firm is a low bono defense firm, and we use a sliding scale arrangement so we can subsidize poor clients with wealthy ones, but we still rely on the billable hour. It's the only way we've come across that will keep our doors open. There are just too many uncertainties, and we have to have an expert witness fund. And, you know, keep our support staff paid.
Still, asking someone to pay a hundred dollars for me to go through PDFs for an hour and rename them feels obscene on a visceral level.
You sound like a great lawyer at a great firm. Even if you hire prosecutors.
Billables are antiquated af tho.
Lengthy tired rant of my own incoming.
Everything you said is true and applies to pretty much any profession that involves fixing problems other people are having. Having a woman at our firm is important. Having a man at our firm is important. I am frequently told, though I do not believe their lies, that having a trans person at our firm is important. It's going to be important when we hire a black attorney who grew up in the city, because their life experiences are a useful skill.
This isn't bleeding-heart progressive political correctness. It's just business sense. We work in a majority-minority city where black people are vastly disproportionately targeted by cops and the criminal justice system in general. This is where Alton Sterling was murdered. Having a black lawyer matters. It's not about "who can get the job done best," because there's no such thing as being "the best" at a profession. Sure, I might be the best in the office at researching and analyzing complex legal issues, but I am the awkwardest of ducks. My colleague might need constant help with her citations when she's drafting up motions, but she is a holy terror in the courtroom. Another attorney is ex-military. He handles the firm's interactions with law enforcement and keeps all sorts of wheels greased.
It is way past my bedtime and I am doing a terrible job of explaining things, but your identity is a skillset. It influences how you approach things, like Pax said.
I AM JUST REPEATING WHAT PAX SAID BUT IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND I GET ANNOYED WHEN PEOPLE DON'T GET IT
tl;dr
@Sparks said in Accounting for gender imbalances:
the reason the company wants a more diverse workforce is not politics, it's because we get more shit done and make more money because our clients are happier with our work than our competitors.
I woke up this morning and took a look in the mirror and was astonished at how feminine my face has become in such a short amount of time! Then I saw the hair, and got upset, because it's still super thin/receding.
Then I woke up. Turns out I was dreaming, my face is still incredibly masculine and fat, and my hair is exactly as bad as it was in the dream.
I'm just flat out not watching it. I'm sure it's amazing and deserves everything I'm hearing about it, but the last thing I want to do after spending my day trying to get people out of jail is watch a documentary on the Central Park Five.
@Wretched said in Random links:
I dont remember what thread people were mentioning POC PB's and i ran across Her
Arx peeves. It was me.
@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".
I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?
Not really. It's a British production, and they use accents to portray class divisions that wouldn't be accessible if they were speaking with a Russian accent. And why is Russian-accented English any less absurd than British-accented English? You could do Russian/Ukrainian and subtitle it, yes, but then you'd miss out on a lot of the nuance.
The show has attracted praise and criticism both from Russians. People are unanimous in their praise for how accurately it physically depicts the Soviet Union. The costumes, buildings, &c. are apparently spot on.
Dr. John, and a week after Leah Chase. New Orleans has had it rough.
It looks otherworldly and dangerous in ways that are hard to describe without falling back on religion. It's Lot's wife turning back to see the destruction and turning into a pillar of salt, or the burning bush, or the curtain of the Temple being torn in two. All the ancient mysteries and primal fear of something greater than ourselves made manifest in a burning reactor core.
I have a law clerk as of Monday and I assigned her a difficult research topic and she got it back to me the next day and I barely had to spend any additional time researching stuff and I got to make fun of the State for not citing anything while pulling out a reference to the scientific journal Neurology.
There are rumors of a potential paralegal hire.
This is what lawyer heaven feels like.
"That is how an RBMK reactor explodes."
If anyone knows of television as good as or better than Chernobyl, I want to hear about it right now.
Also, I'm laughing in advance at Game of Thrones getting absolutely swept at the Emmys by a five part series in which the main villains are a bunch of smouldering graphite and Soviet governance.
Got a new laptop. Win10, like the old one. Installed Potato. I'm getting the same Potato-yoinks-focus issue that was discussed on page one.
Help. ;__;