Hey, thanks for stopping in to disparage our profession!
Interesting enough, I was reading a book by L. Sprague de Camp called The Ancient Engineers. One of his comments was that the one item universally associated with rapid, modern-style innovation and wealth-creation from engineering was – a sound legal system, and in particular, some form of protection for intellectual property.
In short, engineers cannot create weath effectively without lawyers. 
Well, I guess I count as a US lawyer. I am a furriner, who is qualified and practicing in the US. And not qualified elsewhere.
And Vunderbob, if you stop building shit that kills people, I guess we’ll stop suing you.
Sweet deal, eh? Amazing how the engineers usually fall for that.
Engineers got em. Bastards.
US intellectual property lawyer.
My sympathies.
I’m a paralegal. This has provided me with sufficient information to determine I don’t want to be a lawyer. That was easy.
I want that writ petition filed by 3 pm tommorrow and before that, I need caselaw on the defination of “false information” in section 492 of the Companies Act, should be on my desk when I get back from Court, (have you reminded the witness BTW) and then I need you to photocopy and organise all 800 pages of documents for the Anti-Dumping case we are doing, am having a client conferance tommorrow evening…
Oh sorry mate, forgive me, force of habit.
Why on earth would anyone want to be a paralegal, especially when I am the Barrister is beyond me.
Much appreciated, thanks. All in all, though, it’s a relatively sweet gig, as litigation jobs go.
You get used to the quiet after a month or two…
Yeah, I was thinking that being a lawyer is kind of like being Catholic in that respect.*
Hence my poll answer: yes, I’m a US lawyer, despite the fact that I haven’t practiced in almost seven years, and I’m equally likely to become a lactation consultant or a bookstore salesperson as I am to re-engage in law when I go back to work. I’m also not allowed to practice right now - I’m on “inactive” status with the bar and have to take some CLE courses and make a motion to be made active again.
Also, FYI, I am married to an engineer, but he’s non-practicing as well.
*Also, the evil.
Live a little. Spend a year or two practicing engineering while your spouse practices law. Don’t worry about the licences, that’s just fine print anyway.
Not a lawyer: but I think my 10 year old daughter is leaning that way. She’s wanted to be a veterinarian since she was 3: now she wants to be a lawyer. She’s already presenting logical arguments. Maybe she has a gift.
I’m in the same position, but I haven’t the nerve to chose the “US Lawyer” option. The Maryland Board of Law Examiners scares me.
Now that you mention it, we do pretty much have the same name . . .
Nah - I tried to explain to him the difference between issues of fact and issues of law, and his head nearly exploded.
Next time he gets uppity, explain the rule against perpetuities.