Oh sure, MDOT property analyst. I will gladly compare legal descriptions in your correspondence, to a 144 page Judgment to attempt to determine information that you clearly have in your file but didn't send me. #bureaucrats #lawpractice #lawyering

I am not a prosecutor, but my job is criminal-case adjacent. Which means I have to call cops to testify on a regular basis. Which means sometimes I get a call from the police department telling me an officer has “unexpectedly resigned to pursue career opportunities outside of law enforcement.”

I refer to this as “Suddenly deciding to become a beet farmer.”

Which is why occasionally my colleagues hear me yell out, after a phone call, “THE BEETS, THEY CALL TO HIM!”

#lawfedi #lawyering

Hi to the world of Mastodon 👋
Looking forward to connecting with people around the world about #leftist politics, #publicdefense, as well as the #law and #lawyering more broadly!

I’m a novice #chess player and fan, as well as a retired college #ultimatefrisbee player 🤠

DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder made a phony unilateral offer to pay $1 million to any lawyer who would use his robotic lawyer to argue before SCOTUS.

On the blog, I challenge him to donate $1 million to my law school, and we will organize a moot court so that he can test out his robotic lawyering in a setting similar to SCOTUS. #law #bots #lawyering #MootCourt #academia #philanthropy #contracts

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/01/a-unilateral-offer-at-scotus.html

A challenge to DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder: donate $1 million to my law school and we will organize a moot court so that you can test out your robotic lawyering in a setting similar to SCOTUS. #law #bots #lawyering #MootCourt #academia #philanthropy

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/01/a-unilateral-offer-at-scotus.html

I kept a list in my journal last year called "what representation means to me" and would return to it both to add items on his days and gain perspective on difficult days #lawyering. Most of my #BulletJournal pages aren't fancy, but the plainest can be the most meaningful.

Are you even really a family lawyer if you don't have one client thanking you for "being amazing in court" and another client calling you "incompetent" all in the same day??

#FamilyLawProblems #FamilyLawyers #LawFedi #Lawyering

I always forget how absolutely off the walls things get in family law before the holidays. RIP me.

Every work day this week has been 12-14 hours long. I just wake up and go to work and get off work and sit on the couch for a couple hours and then go to bed too late and get up and do it over again and again and again.

Ready for my 2 weeks off 🫠

#FamilyLawyer ##FamilyLawProblems #Lawyering #LawFedi

@woozle Excellent bit at the end of Doctorow's New Yorker profile on content moderation:

I worry that, because of the attacker’s advantage, the people who want to break the rules are always going to be able to find ways around them, and that we’re never going to be able to make a set of rules that is comprehensive enough to forestall bad conduct. We see this all the time, right? Facebook comes up with a rule that says you can’t use racial slurs, and then racists figure out euphemisms for racial slurs. They figure out how to walk right up to the line of what’s a racial slur without being a racial slur, according to the rule book. And they can probe the defenses. They can try a bunch of different euphemisms in their alt accounts; they can see which ones get banned or blocked, and then they can pick one that they think is moderator-proof.

Meanwhile, if you’re just some normie who’s having racist invective thrown at you, you’re not doing these systematic probes—you’re just trying to live your life. And they’re sitting there trying to goad you into going over the line. And as soon as you go over the line they know chapter and verse. They know exactly what rule you’ve broken, and they complain to the mods and get you kicked off. And so you end up with committed professional trolls having the run of social media and their targets being the ones who get the brunt of bad moderation calls. Because dealing with moderation, like dealing with any system of civil justice, is a skilled, context-heavy profession. Basically, you have to be a lawyer. And, if you’re just a dude who’s trying to talk to your friends on social media, you always lose.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do

I think Doctorow's touching on a universal truth: that any rules-based system ultimately ends up being a sort of barristered hell. It's why content moderation is so damned context-sensitive. And also why and how extremists on both sides of a divide can drive out moderates and give rise to a highly-partisan shriekfest. Closely related to SSC's "Toxoplasma of Rage":

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

@pluralistic

#CoryDoctorow #NewYorker #ContentModeration #Lawyering #ToxoplasmaOfRage

Moving to a firm that does a 5 day weekend for Thanksgiving and a 2 week closure for Christmas was truly a fantastic career move. Highly recommend.

#lawyering #familylawyer

I have a lot of PTO to use or lose between now and the end of the year (which is 12/16 for me). Decided to take today off and only log on for the 2 previously scheduled client calls. Will I be able to ignore work long enough to make my morning actually enjoyable? Or will I spend all morning thinking about work and stressing about unanswered emails? 🫠 #lawyering

Welcome to one of my all-time favorite lawyer folks, @alexgulotta !

We first met when he was running the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville and I was helping out with their website!

(He's a smart person you should be following about #Democracy #Justice #Advocacy #Voting #Elections #Lawyering )

Sometimes my clients make me wonder, am I a ghost? Does anyone hear me when I speak? Please confirm I exist?

#lawyering #familylawyer

Will I ever get a good night's sleep before a trial? I think the answer to that is ... No.

#lawyering #familylawyer

My favorite part of jury selection is asking a question you've prepared and then having no idea what to do with their answer because you didn't think that far ahead.

(I'm still somewhat new to voir dire as of yet)

#Lawyering #LawFedi #Law #Lawstodon

Good morning - here's my intro post. Practicing #lawyer in #Chicago concentrating in legal ethics defense and consultation. My partners and i are all fmr ethics prosecutors, and one of us (Mary Robinson) ran the whole IL discipline system. My interests here in the #Fediverse include #Law #lawyering #ethics #legalacademics #legaltech etc., but I enjoy following historians, musicians, artists, and many more. Oh and #dogpics ! Thanks to all followers. I hope I can contribute here.

For further introduction to this ecosystem, I'm a clinical #lawprof in #California, hailing from #Mississippi and #Alabama , with work devoted to ethical #lawyering , #socialjustice , #humanrights , #faith , #litigation , #communityeconomicdevelopment , #racialjustice , #globaleducation , #theology , #writing , #probono , #accesstojustice , and #love.

Fired up. Ready to go.

Cory Doctorow’s closing keynote for The Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain: "THE GRIFTERS"

https://youtu.be/fAUneJpB2vo

#fz_webVideos // #copyright #intellectualProperty #TradeMark #PublicDomain #lawyering #commonsTheft