Can you identify some generalization about yourself, either your opinion or one others generally hold of you, and then identify an exception to that generalization?
Be as serious or light-hearted as you wish.
Examples:
I’m generally quite easy-going and tolerant, but I just lose it when people have too many items in the grocery express lane.
I’m generally kind of goofy looking, but I have the cutest elbows.
Here’s mine:
I generally consider myself quite liberal on social and political issues, but would not oppose the death penalty for certain crimes if it could be fairly and economically imposed.
I am generally easy-going and tolerant of other lawyers, but I lose it with government functionaries who write like deconstructionist whistle-pigs on acid.
(Of course, I am entirely at your service, Mr. Dinsdale sir.)
As a gov’t functionary lawyer, I’ll have to review what I’m currently writing before I quite know how to respond. Of course I assume you are referring to such functionaries’ work product, instead of their, um, message board postings?
Like your user name. Now I could use a good servicing…
Ooooh, Mr. Dinsdale sir, I was certainly not referring to your message board postings, and to my knowledge I have never read any of your work product. I crave your pardon that I implied otherwise; I assure you that I have the highest regard for your posts, most of which have a certain world-weary tang which I find quite beguiling.
Well, you’re certainly off to a good start here, IMO. Of course you see how everyone is jumping in to play with the 2 lawyers from Chi-town.
“A world weary tang…” I like that. Conveys an image out of Greene, Waugh, etc, of me reclining on the porch of the all-England club in some tropical locale, sipping a pink gin…
I too am generally easy going, and I am generally anti death penalty, I would support the death penalty for “monsters” such as the late and unlamented John Gacy if someone could actually write a statute which would effectively only execute such “monsters”.
And people who double park when they could drive 50 yards further down and pull over to the curb.
Damn. All we need is to drag random in here and we’d almost have a personality between the 4 of us. Bet we could really clear a room fast!
Race ya all over to Trader Vics for a quick round of Scorpions! The sun’s over the yardarm.
Wait a minute. Are you actually a lawyer, 2L, or merely an asshole-in-training? You may not even have been vetted for ethics yet! You know, you’ll be pleasantly surprised how often you’ll use the rule against perpetuities in practice. Would you believe I cited Pfalsgraf just the other day? And I’m currently working on a case involving a client named Blackacre!
err, not to intrude on the lawyer-party here, but may I respond to the OP?
I thank you.
I am generally shy around people I don’t know, but I have no problem teasing strange males I find attractive.
I am generally very sarcastic, but not about sex.
I am generally a tomboy, but I love wearing long, full skirts.
I am generally fairly laidback, but if you insult NASCAR and its fans for no good reason other than the fact that you don’t like it I will go ballistic on your ass.
Did you know that Wisconsin and a few other states have actually abolished the Rule Against Perpetuities (apparently under pressure from a few big estate planning firms)? On the other hand the fertile octogenarian thing is finally starting to make sense given current technology.
2nd Law: I have recently petitioned for admission to the aha Technical Institute for Vocational Obsequiousness. Are you an alum?
IME, the only law school class I had that has any relevance to my current practice of law was Civ Lit, and at the U of I in the early 80s they taught it as some bs theoretical exercise, instead of something you would actually need to, uh, do some lawyering. But NOOOO. Wouldn’t want to let anything of practical value get in the way of training you to “think like a lawyer!” I vaguely remember some analogy about federal court pleadings being like volleying tennis balls back and forth across a net. Of course, I get my spiffy new law license and don’t even know how many copies of a document I should file where … But I’m a lawyer. Whoop-de-do! Now get me a law clerk to tell me how to get things done, while I sit back and think big lawyerly thoughts. Few nonlawyers understand the amount of on-the-job training lawyers need (and their unfortunate first clients pay for.)
racinchikki, you gotta lotta nerve to go an interrupt our hijack here. Thanks for noticing the OP, tho.
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*Originally posted by Dinsdale *
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I learned a lot more about day-to-day lawyering in my clerking job during law school than I did from my law school classes.
Remember ANY law school class that talked about how to bill clients? HA!
An additional response to the OP:
I’m generally a lawyer, but when I was (briefly) a solo practioner I had a difficult time keeping a straight face telling clients I was going to charge them over $100 per hour (this was a few years back).