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Each Saturday we reach into the fridge and pull out the best leftovers to eat. That is, the most-read posts of the past week, which for the work week ending April 27, 2012, include:
Looking for more? Start here or dig into the Bitter Lawyer archives, featuring more than 1,600 articles, comics, videos, and podcasts.
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Put your lawyerly wisdom to the test and post a comment below or on Facebook with a witty, hilarious, or brilliant caption to this retro clip art, courtesy of Shutterstock.com. And keep it clean(ish) and, y’know, respectful.
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QI’m completing my 2L year at a top school and having trouble finding work. Or appropriate work, as in paid work that is actually law-related. I have a background in software development and want to use it somehow in my legal career but I’m actually not that interested in patent work, which is what everyone tells me to do.
Recently I came across LegalZoom and, to be honest, I thought it was one of the coolest things around. It serves the low-end client, has set prices for people, and from what I can tell delivers a decent product. Probably not the best product but likely good enough. And good enough seems to be the new standard for legal services for regular people, like people I know and grew up with.
What do you think of my prospects of developing an online business that delivers attorney-reviewed forms like LegalZoom? Every lawyer I talk to says it’s a waste of time and that it’s teetering on the edge of unauthorized practice of law. A lot of folks—law students and professors included—think I’m nuts and basically going to the dark side. Would I be wasting my time and my degree pursuing something like this?
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There are two things I’m certain of: (i) I am a fantastic associate; (ii) I am profoundly miserable. And I’m afraid there’s a direct link.
My rumination on this topic started valiantly enough. The recent layoffs of most of my friends had me in an introspective mood—and I had a little extra time on my hands since there was no one in my foreseeable future with whom I’d be “just lunching.” So I decided to apply my lawyerly reasoning to something other than arguments in opposition to summary judgment motions.
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With yesterday’s release of Fifteen Digits, a new thriller involving insider information and powerful New York law firms, we thought it was time to catch up with author Nick Santora. While he started out as a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, he’s long since become a prolific writer, show runner, and producer of scripted and unscripted TV, film, drama, comedy, comic books, and video games. Since we first interviewed him nearly four years ago about his work on Prison Break, quite a bit has changed. We sat down again with him last week, shortly before the release of his new book.
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It’s that time of year again. Spring is starting make the weather tolerable again for those of us in the more northern latitudes, and the student bar association is plastering the law building with fliers for this year’s gala, or, as many of us know it, Law Prom. So what’s to justify shelling out for overpriced tickets on a law student budget? Here are five reasons.
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View more comics by Albert Wang or by Bitter Lawyer staff, including Devolution of the Lawyer, Courtroom Yoga Moves, Illustrated, or the Alcohol Guide for Law Students.
I am sure you have heard of the woman who allegedly died from drinking too much Coke. Natasha Harris died from hypokalemia that may have been caused by her excessive consumption of Coke. Listen lady, if you are drinking 2.5 gallons of Coke every day you deserve to die, because you are an idiot. That is almost two pounds of sugar just from Coke. Two pounds in one day! Oh, and she smoked 30 cigarettes a day and barely ate. I’m just surprised this lady is from New Zealand and not Alabama. Wilford Brimley would be pissed at this lady. “Did she check her blood sugar? Did she check it often? No! Then yes she deserves to die and I hope she burns in hell.”
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Each Saturday we reach into the fridge and pull out the best leftovers to eat. That is, the most-read posts of the past week, which for the work week ending April 20, 2012, include:
Looking for more? Start here or dig into the Bitter Lawyer archives, featuring more than 1,600 articles, comics, videos, and podcasts.
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Put your lawyerly wisdom to the test and post a comment below or on Facebook with a witty, hilarious, or brilliant caption to this retro clip art, courtesy of Shutterstock.com. And keep it clean(ish) and, y’know, respectful.
The editors’ pick will be announced next week, and then we’ll post the clip art with the text on Facebook.
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