Best posts made by saosmash

@Rinel that sounds awful. Today is a sucky day. I had a reprieve in that the chief witness for the other side was really ill and seeking a continuance anyway so the only harm done is that I looked like an idiot in front of an argument of lawyers. The judge very kindly said that she was also confused about the courthouse change ... but lordy lordy "be physically in building at scheduled time" should not be the hard part of my job.

Best of luck with yours. Sounds to me like you need better mentoring if you were filing something for the first time ever and didn't have somebody on hand to talk to about the nitty gritty.

@scar I mean it can but ... sometimes it doesn't.

In my experience characters with PBs are more likely to get players than characters without. Personally I would be more likely to take one without because I can be obnoxiously choosy about PBs. But experience has taught me that having the pic helps get a player.

Unless it is a terrible PB pic. Then replacing it is critical.

Every time we have one of these conversations, these are exactly the attitudes that confirm why I tried WoD twice and now never shall again.

@Rinel If it helps you feel better -- honestly I used to crack jokes with the clerk's office that I wasn't allowed to file things and only the legal assistants could because lawyers make a mess. Mostly my issues were messing up the exhibit page somehow or else accidentally stamping things upside down but 5/6 times when filing before I was solo I made SOME kind of dumbass mess. I've gotten better at checking and doublechecking my own detail work now par necessity because I am solo, but man it's a pain in the ass. Good administrative help is worth its weight in diamonds.

What does bug me is when people use the same PB for characters who are 20 years apart. Step off my 40 year old hotness, you kids. Get off my lawn!

@roz You were a great husbando. A++, would recommend.

@surreality I love that meat hammer. I bought a pizza cutter in the shape of the starship Enterprise once. (NCC-1701, no bloody A, B, C or D)

I use it for all my dough cutting!

@ganymede Isn't it gunshots and dope literally everywhere, though?

It's possible that my job has impacted how I view the world.

I'm not really sure what my type is at this point. I am repeatedly drawn to characters with story themes about identity. Who am I is a question I enjoy playing with.

All of my characters end up with a fucking dorky sense of humor.

For some reason.

Sometimes I make a quesadilla which is just cheese in a tortilla with Tabasco sauce but I don't think of it as depression food because I have to be arsed to get out a pan and maybe some butter.

Also I just got a corn dog from the drive thru which probably qualifies....

Ultimately I think that @krmbm has made the real point here. If you don't trust your staff not to do this unethically, play somewhere else instead.

Sao was a character I played on a Pern game, and then the smash came while I was playing Bruce Banner on a game.

@Ganymede I did Barbri. I think the thing that made it grueling for me was how much time I spent doing it and how intensely I did it. My memory of that period is basically just a fugue of practice, practice, wrist pain, practice, but I was absolutely terrified of not passing the bar the first time and having to do it again.

Although the actual bar exam I found not particularly hard, except for the one question that had issues in it that weren't in any of Barbri's outline, wherein I was remembering stuff from a 2L course in employment law I JUST HAPPENED to take. There were a lot of pissed off test-takers in the hallway afterwards about that.

@Rinel A small sandbox that's just for you and your friends can be great fun. Ares can be a great game-in-a-box for this.

@darinelle Gremlins!

@nyctophiliac said in The Art of Lawyering:

Such interesting answers!

Now I'm curious about other things because my mind wanders!

Do lawyers have stereotypes of other kinds of lawyers?

Definitely. Lots. I mean, there are stereotypes that we have just in public defense about public defenders - the jaded workhorse versus the one who drank the koolaid - so I'm sure there's others out there.

Are all lawyers pessimistic?

No. My first boss was incredibly optimistic. Unfortunately, he frequently shared his rosy view of the world with the clients, and this included a rosy view of what their payouts were likely to be. I received many crash courses in what not to do during the course of that job.

I do think most lawyers are cynics. Even the idealistic ones.

Also a surprising number of us that I have met have adult ADHD in some form.

Are you all amazing in social situations because of your jobs? Or do you think that it's a prerequisite?

Fuck no. Lol. I'm deeply socially awkward, but have learned to mask well. I've seen some other lawyers who were basically social train wrecks. Nothing about law school or lawyering teaches you to interact with other human beings, including other lawyers.

Is there a lawyer joke you just should absolutely not ever make under any circumstances?

If you're bugged by lawyer jokes you're in the wrong job.

I have a joke I use in voir dire:

"There are only three lawyer jokes ... the rest are all true stories."

I suspect the prosecutors are as sick of hearing me tell that joke as I am of hearing their canned thing about reasonable doubt, but whatever.

@silverfox uggg I have to reread the last 3 before I can buy #4 because I made myself a rule and I'm dying because they're so long

I still don't understand what the heck a msbwiki would even be for

I mean, I'm not canceling Joss because he cheated on his wife, but I'm pretty done with Joss because of sexist bullshit he did in the Avengers.

I've been enjoying the heck out of the Grishaverse in audio format lately.