Texting has really saved me from hours and hours of talking. This would normally be a 15 minute phone call after phone tag.
buddy of mine just got a full remote appeals position (at a firm but mostly all-state's appeals). He's living the dream.
i am an illiterate trial jock and don't get the appeal () either but he gets to wear a t-shirt and jeans every day and work from home.
so my associate is at a mediation this morning. our client said he had no previous wrecks. she gets to the mediation and they pull out a claims search and find 7 previous wrecks with most having injury claims. if she doesnt settle it i think we are going to file a motion to withdraw
Picking up my license and taking the oath of office in about an hour. Hope this mass swear-in moves quick, it’s 85 degrees and I’ve worn a suit once in almost 18 months. Currently camped beneath an air vent in the corner of a Jack in the Box fending off homeless people and sweating my balls off.
This one moved p quick. No individualized intros, no long speeches—just names and an applause. Only 90ish people passed the July bar here so it was a relatively small class. Last time I did it, we just picked a random judge in chambers and knocked it out in under a minute. Here, you were required to attend the ceremony and had to apply for a hardship to skip it.
Had the audacity to take Friday off and this is my punishment Monday: 5PM deposition in Dallas. Got back at 11 last night Tuesday: 8AM mediaiton. 2:30 discovery hearing Wednesday: 2PM mediation Thursday: 10 AM doctor depo Friday: off Monday: 2PM def expert depo: 5:30PM mediaiton
I hate Case Text. If it's an unreported federal district court case, instead of have 23 WL 12934 or 35 LEXIS 23498 they give you the civil action number in the case cite, i.e. John Bell v. Coast Trucking , 123-CV-1238123:42 at 12-13 (S.D. Miss. 2014). Makes you look like a scrub. West Law is just absurdly expensive though. I might make a push for Lexis at some point as a middle ground.
Our caseload according to corporate is supposed to be around 40. I'm down to 9 because they settle everything. Patiently awaiting the sweet release of termination
I'm at the office for 40-45 I do probably about 10 hours of actual work per week. 2-3 of the 9 are waiting on medical records from the VA so nothing is going to happen in those for months.
Yes. Theres an option to work from home on Fridays but that would require me to document the work I don't do. Easier to come to the office and sit on my phone
Prob Ofcr’s are an interesting bunch. They fancy themselves as counselors or “helping” people but also clearly want to just exercise power and punish. PO: She was violated for having knives Me: pocket knives. Are you aware she works in fencing and might use them for work? PO: yes, but she had 7 in her bedroom Me: would she be violated for having 3? PO: no Me: is 4 or more a made up policy? PO: yes, it seems fair. In jail for 2 weeks on a no bond
It's a tiny office so my absence would be noted. Much safer to just trade options on my phone instead.
My job is essentially detention. I don't really have to do anything but also i'm not allowed to leave.
If I didn’t have a deposition or court I think I could manage 9 defense files in less than 1 hour per week
How many lawyers are there and how many files do others have? I got a lift to the airport from the defense lawyer yesterday evening and she said she used to manage the Hartford in Dallas and it went from her +6 lawyers to her alone working from home with a receptionist in houston over the course of just a few years
2 others. They are probably in the low 20s. They increased staffing across Florida expecting an increase in cases. Then they started settling everything. I suppose they will catch on eventually but I'm riding the gravy train until it crashes.
For sure. Save money for a few months of living expenses and don’t leave that job until they make you
It sounds like every in house car insurance defense lawyers dream. That subset of lawyers isn’t exactly known for being go getters who want to make a ton of money. They want to work 40 hours with minimal stress and kick it
I still use my appellate brief from Appellate Advocacy in law school as my go to source for legal citation and formatting. How sad is that? With as much scrutiny as it got, I don't think anything afterwards has been as correctly cited/formatted. It's not like you have teachers and lawyers looking over your shoulder and telling you what is right and wrong any more. Or at least I don't. On the other hand, whatever mistakes I made back in 2012 when I wrote it have been echoed ever since.
no offense Bricktop the white I'm just a jaded small business owner and I wouldn't know what to do with myself with 9 cases or having so much time to where I could sit on the phone a good bit during the day because I had nothing else to do
If you've followed the "annoying co-workers" thread, there's a fairly new associate in our office that is crazy over-zealous about insurance defense (and has also not-so-subtly hit on me on several occasions). She is mid-40s, very large, and socially oblivious. All associates at my firm are required to bill 1,850 hours per year, and our fiscal year ends in November, so it can be a scramble this time of year. Said co-worker hit 1,850 mark around 2-3 yesterday, exclaimed "I DID IT!," then ran around to all offices to inform everyone that she "made her hours" for the year. Today, she comes in wearing an incredibly tight shirt that her husband made her which says "1,850" in huge letters, and underneath says "you did it!" It could not be more cringe-worthy.
Thrilled. She's also aggressively undergoing fertility treatments and is more than happy to indulge you.