#real lawyer

[coffee-n-ritalin]

6 March 2023

12/100 days of productivity

I asked my boss for my vacation days, so I can take care of my health and study, hopefully get over the inertia

Usually, the process of going on vacation takes a whole month, but I asked pretty please because I'm in poor shape, and since it's only the two lawyers, it's not like there's a big queue for vacation

So we expedited it so I'll be on vacation by the end of the week

Which is great but also now I gotta get everything in order in just a few days :O

So today I worked, and worked, and worked, and when the day ended, I did unpaid overtime. That to-do last did shrink a bit too

#studyblr #lawblr #real lawyer #100 days of productivity #100 days of studying

[expatesque]

How much do lawyers make in london?

Magic Circle NQs (newly qualified, so typically ~24-25 years old) are at around £110k. But American firms in London tend to pay more, at around £150k for NQs and like £215k for 3 years PQE.

When comparing law salaries in London vs like New York (salaries are higher in NY), it's worth keeping in mind that we don't pay for law school here (firms pay) so we don't have that ~$200k in debt that American lawyers are dealing with.

#real lawyer #real lawblr #uk lawblr #correspondence #law stuff

[pilzplage]

Klapollo shenanigans..

#aceattorney #aa4 #aa4 fanart #klapollo #apollo justice #klavier gavin #apollo x klavier #ace attorney apollo justice #yaoi #NEVER HAVE I LOVED GAY PEOPLE MOREEEEEEEEEEEE ( except my Kagehina phase in 8th grade but shhhh) #i have plans about Klapollo that I cannot share with you right now #i wish gay men were real #gay lawyers

[delicatefury]

Look. I have literally no horse in this race when it comes to the WGA/SAG Hollywood strike. I do not watch enough TV or movies to be affected and I’m not a part of the industry. I really haven’t cared.

As a lawyer and orchardist, however, I am now utterly entranced by the fact that some Universal Studios exec thought it was a good idea to cut down city-owned trees in the middle of summer.

There is no way to get around the absolute clusterfuck they have brought down upon themselves.

First, the ownership question. These trees are not owned by Universal. They’re the City of Los Angeles’ trees. That means the responsibility, and the right, to maintain them belongs to the city government. If you want to touch city property like that, you better have their permission. If not, you’re looking at anything from fines, to replacement/maintenance costs, to jail time.

Now, I don’t know LA, and I’m not licensed in California, but a lot of cities also require permits for any massive trimming like that that can affect public property (like the roads and sidewalks).

Second, they have zero excuses that can even remotely minimize the trouble they’re in. Anything that justifies that kind of pruning at this time of year would have likely required the full removal and destruction of the trees.

Because that level of pruning? You don’t do that in summer. You absolutely do not do that in summer unless the trees are dying or infested with something. Why? Because summer is healthy growth time. Summer is when your trees need all the energy they can get so they can grow and strengthen their branches and roots.

It’s also when they’re susceptible to diseases. Various bacteria, fungi, and insects strike during the summer and can cause severe damage. By trimming those trees so severely, not only are there a ton of gapping wounds for diseases to enter the tree, they’re now stressed by trying to replace that lost growth, which makes it even harder for them to survive any further damage.

Basically, Universal Studios might end up accidentally killing the trees. Which will make everything so much worse.

So, yeah. Now I’m invested.

#fury’s a lawyer #wga strike #sag strike #universal studios #tree law #it’s like watching a train crash real time #I don’t even practice tree law #but I know it’s reputation is well earned

[clefadrylcorner]

I apologize for what my blog is going to become.

#daily dracula #dracula #jonathan harker #what is it about real estate agents that make them so unhinged #edit: he's a lawyer but that doesn't make this any better #this is just a 1890s gothic literature version of phoenix wright now

[eldritch-thrumming]

what, like it’s hard?, pt. one

“it’s just that… if i want to win a seat in congress by the time i’m thirty, i need to find someone who’s serious about my career. not some little elementary school teacher that cares more about his students than what he’s wearing on my campaign stops,” tommy tells steve, as they’re sitting in quite possibly the fanciest restaurant steve’s ever step foot in. the menu hadn’t even included any prices.

“but… i’m seriously in love with you.” steve feels like his whole world is falling apart. just last week he’d been so sure that tommy was getting ready to propose. he’d introduced steve to his family—they’d spent a week out on martha’s vineyard for a family reunion at which steve had met tommy’s great-grandmother, hands laden with rings as she’d winked when tommy had asked for a private conversation. steve had been so sure that conversation was about the family ring.

“and i love you too, baby, but look. you don’t want to have to leave your students for half the year to come on the campaign trail with me, do you?” tommy asks, not even really looking at steve. he continues to just eat his stupid dinner as if he’s not ripping steve’s heart out at this very moment.

and steve can’t help but think how silly this all is, because it’s not like tommy’s actually running for anything right now. steve doesn’t even teach yet, beyond the two days a week he does his student teaching. they’re only 22, they haven’t even graduated northwestern with their bachelors degrees! but tommy’s saying these things as if they’re all real, right now.

“and i’m off to harvard next fall. it’s not like we’ll stay together while i’m there and you’re still here, right?”

and the thing is, steve had actually thought he’d be going with tommy to boston. they’re both set to graduate in the spring, steve with his degree in education and tommy with a dual major in pre-law and political science. they hadn’t really ever talked about it, but they’d been together since the beginning of their sophomore year. so yes, steve had thought they’d still be together when tommy started at harvard law.

but now steve’s starting to feel extra stupid.

“so… what? you’re breaking up with me?” steve starts to feel his chest tightening, like he might cry. he can’t believe that two hours ago he thought he’d been getting ready for a proposal.

“don’t think of it as a breakup, stevie… think of it as a conscious uncoupling. we’re just moving in two different directions. i’ll be at harvard law next semester and you’ll be…” tommy gives him a look of slight disdain—steve has never seen tommy look at him like that. waitstaff? sure. his driver? absolutely. but it’s never been directed at steve before. “well, you’ll be teaching snot-nosed six year olds. we’re on different paths.”

and that’s what truly makes steve’s blood boil. his passion for teaching and education is one of his greatest qualities and he’d thought that had been part of the reason tommy loved him. he didn’t realize that tommy loved him in spite of that. he’s not gonna let some asshole like tommy montgomery hagan iii tell him he’s no good.

so he doesn’t respond. he just takes the linen napkin off his lap and throws it on his half-eaten steak dinner and marches out of the restaurant.

tommy doesn’t even follow him out.

~*~

“oh steve… i’m sorry,” robin says to him about an hour later while steve lays his head in her lap on their dingy couch.

“it’s not even that he broke up with me,” he explains through tears. “it’s that he basically said i was worthless. like i couldn’t do anything better than teaching. as if teaching isn’t even an admirable profession! where would he be without his teachers, huh? isn’t this all about going to stupid harvard? what does he think the professors there actually do? knit?”

“is this a bad time to tell you that i always kind of hated him?” robin says, maybe trying to get him to laugh. but it kind of surprises steve. he sits up, knocking her hands from where they’ve been carding through his hair in the process.

“you did?! no, you didn’t.” he searches robin’s face for a moment and then sighs. “why didn’t you say anything? you could’ve saved me a whole lot of wasted time.”

“babe, you were so gooey-eyed for that guy, nothing i said was gonna change that. a crowbar couldn’t have pried you away from him. but you have to know he was an asshole.” when steve stares at her blankly, she huffs. “steve, he used to offer to cover the whole tab when we went out. how often did he ever actually pay, even for his own drinks? he made poor jonathan cry the last time we were all here for game night, just because jonathan asked for clarification on the rules for pictionary.” steve is still staring at her. “he tried to stiff argyle by offering him a flight on his dad’s private jet instead of paying for his weed and we all know he doesn’t even have access to the jet. dude was cheap as fuck and not even nice about it.”

steve thinks about it. it was kind of true. tommy was a horrible tipper—steve usually laid down a couple of twenties when they went to dinner together when tommy wasn’t looking. he can remember more than a few times where the guy had sent their food back even though it had looked perfectly wonderful to steve. so… okay, maybe robin had a point.

steve tells her as much, then adds, “but he was always nice to me.”

robin snorts. “are you kidding? he’s stood you up so many times i can’t even remember all of them. remember that time he said his first impression of you was that you weren’t as hot as your pictures? who says that to the person they’re dating?”

steve groans and lays his head back down in her lap.

“okay, so maybe you have a point about that too. but i was gonna marry him, rob. what do i do now?” he knows he’s whining, but he feels just a little bit entitled to it right now.

“i don’t know, babe. get over it, i guess. welcome to the world of us singles. it sucks out here.” steve can hear the fondness in robin’s voice as she says it, but still. it does sting just a little.

they sit there in silence for a while, with robin running her hands through his hair again. it’s so soothing that he almost jumps out of his skin when she speaks again.

“hey, you know what would be super funny?” she’s laughing a little as she says it.

“what?” steve had been dozing just a little and his voice sounds muffled by fatigue.

“if you got into harvard and just showed up on the first day. imagine the look on his face.”

steve laughs at how ridiculous that sounds. like he could get into harvard. plus, he’s got teaching to think about. he doesn’t have a place yet, but he knows he’ll get one soon.

but as he sits there with robin’s hands stroking through his hair, he begins to daydream about how shocked tommy would be. about how he’d have no choice but to eat his words when steve proves himself by getting into one of the most competitive programs in the country. about how good it would feel to prove the bastard wrong.

“robin?” she hums in response. “you’re a goddamn genius.”

~*~

“dingus, are you sure you want to do this?”

the spring semester starts in three days. it’s their last semester at northwestern and there’s nothing but great big darkness on the horizon of steve’s future. he hasn’t slept in two days, busy studying, thick workbooks piled around around him at the kitchen table. he knows what he must look like, over-caffeinated with bruises under his eyes.

“i’m sure.” steve has his lsat exam in one week. “i have to take the exam this week. apps are due by march first.”

“no, steve, i don’t mean taking the test. i mean applying at all. it’s clearly more stress than it’s worth. do you even want to go to law school?” robin sounds concerned and normally steve would think it’s very sweet, but currently it does nothing but irritate him.

“i could,” he responds grumpily.

robin sighs. “i just mean… is this worth it?”

steve looks up then and sees her biting her lip, clearly worried about him. he puts his pencil down and stops the timer on his phone, giving her his full attention.

“this isn’t just about tommy.” robin gives him a skeptical look and it’s his turn to sigh. “it’s really not. maybe it started out that way, maybe it was just a stupid joke to get revenge on the asshole, but now it’s more than that. it’s proving that i can do something unexpected of me.” he swallows. “no one even believed i would get into college. i was just some stupid jock in high school who’d never amount to anything. and then i got in to northwestern and i was so shocked and happy. but i found out that my dad had actually pulled a bunch of strings. so i hadn’t gotten in on my own merits. he didn’t think i could. but now…” he runs a hand through his hair nervously. he’s never said any of this out loud before. “he’s not around now. there’s no one to help me. no safety net. if i can do this, it’ll prove something to me. something that maybe i don’t really believe yet.”

he expects robin to say something about external validation being a corrupting force and identity built on academic achievement being solely a losing game, but she doesn’t. instead, she sits down across the table from him and picks up a workbook.

“okay,” she says. “what do we have to do?”

~*~

“mail here?” steve calls out when he hears the front door close behind robin.

there’s a moment that feels like a pause. “yeah, it’s here.”

steve practically sprints from his bedroom to his living room. robin holds a single white envelope in her hand. steve all but snatches it from her.

his fingers move to rip it open, but then he hesitates. he thrusts it back towards robin. “i can’t,” he tells her. “you do it.”

her eyebrows shoot up. “you’re sure?” steve nods. he watches her rip the envelope open, bouncing on his feet. she scans the page and then she’s smiling.

steve grabs the paper from her. “oh my god?!” he yells. “oh my god!”

robin practically jumps into his arms. “179, baby! harvard law here we come.”

~*~

even after such a successful run at the lsats, there’s still the little matter of actually getting in to the school. steve’s only experience with the academic application process was with undergrad and it appears that applying for anything beyond a bachelors degree is an entirely different ball game. he’s so out of his depth that he’s forced to turn to grad school message boards for advice and tips of how to get in. it seems like everyone else is applying to a hundred different schools while steve’s only applying to one. he learns this is a terrible strategy for planning one’s future, but that doesn’t really matter to steve. for him, it’s harvard or nothing.

there are so many different parts of the application that it makes steve’s head spin. there’s the statement of purpose and the personal statement—the difference between those two requires robin’s careful and slow explanation about three separate times. then there’s the writing sample and the application and the recommendations and the transcripts and and and

but with robin’s help, steve completes each component and successfully sends his materials by the day of the deadline.

steve’s never been a patient person. no one on earth would accuse him of that, so even he can tell that he’s getting on robin’s nerves every day as he practically pounces on her when she returns from collecting the mail.

and then one day, finally, at the end of april, she comes through the front door and clutched in her hand is a big, thick white envelope emblazoned with the words ‘harvard law’ in bold, beautiful crimson red.

~*~

“last chance to back out,” robin says smiling as she swings herself up into the passengers seat of their rented u-haul.

“nah.” steve returns her smile as he slides his sunglasses from his hair onto his face. “let’s get out of this dump.”

and with that, they leave their first apartment behind, headed to the coast.

[wanted to finish this completely before posting but my benadryls kicking in and i have no self control. eventual steddie, promise! no tag list for this one, sorry!! it’s giving me anxiety on the other one lol absolutely not edited, if u see a typo no u don’t. i wrote this on my phone in a feverish frenzy. also, i originally invented someone for the role of warner but then i was like ‘IDIOT!!!!! why would u not choose tommy?????’ so if there’s a name in here that shouldn’t be, no there isn’t.]

#the not as hot as ur pictures thing is a real thing my ex said to me after we’d been together for like six months lol called me ugly 😭 #legally blonde au #steddie #steddie fic #steddie legally blonde au #this will EVENTUALLY be steddie if i write more lol #robin buckley #steve harrington #platonic stobin #steddie fanfic #steddie ficlet #i’m setting it up!!!!! #eddie will be a bartender not a law guy sorry!!!! lawyer!eddie just don’t feel right to me #steddie fanfiction #steddie blurb #guess what i watched tonight #well i also watched mean girls lol #here have this half finished thing #i wanted to finish it before posting but

[likethepoetssay]

sharing is caring so here are some links i've found to swann's short films and others in case anyone's interested:

Crawl (2012) 95' has subtitles but are delayed (i downloaded them from a page that recognizes youtube subtitles and turns them into an srt file, also downloaded the film then watched it with the VLC player adding the srt file)

Nous sommes tous des êtres penchés... (2013) 27' it's also available on vimeo with better quality but no subs

GROS CHAGRIN (2017) 15'

Un beau voyou (2018) 101'

Exfiltrés (2019) 99'

Perdrix (2019) 96'

that's it enjoy!

#swann arlaud #anatomy of a fall #perdrix #filmography #short film #film #the bare necessity #hot lawyer brainrot its real #crawl 2012 #un beau voyou #exfiltrés #gros chagrin #nous sommes tous des êtres penchés

[shadow0-1]

Where were you when I was out of line?

#call of duty #modern warfare #call of duty modern warfare #MWII #CoD MWII #CoD MWIII #MWIII #blender renders #Simon Riley #Simon Ghost Riley #So I've been getting real silly over jjk recently right #havent started on the manga cause it's a commitment #and I have commitment issues tee hee #BUT #know that this #(the general vibe and pose) #is based off that one panel of the lawyer guy :)

[drchucktingle]

big day for sentient tractors and macaroni and cheese lawyers LADYBUCK ON LADYBUCK: SEVEN LESBIAN TALES OF THE TINGLEVERSE VOLUME 4 is out now as audiobook. please enjoy LOVE IS REAL

DOWNLOAD HERE

#chuck tingle #tingleverse #lesbian #ladybuck #mac and cheese lawyer #audiobook #love is real

[toskarin]

glass houses and all, I've made bad deals in my time and I've failed to consult IP lawyers in cases where I probably should have, but putting your entire codebase up as collateral on a loan that you're paying more or less entirely through someone else's charity feels like it really shouldn't be fucking Plan A

#dragging my hands down my face as I read the explanation that this was somehow a better plan than selling 'real' equity in a company #this is such a bad idea that it should actually be your last possible plan. this is Plan Z at best #this is how you lose everything in the most catastrophic possible way with no chance at all of recovery #this is giving me a headache just thinking about it. did a lawyer even touch the paper this deal was written on #this isn't getting renegotiated. full IP rights is the ideal answer that issuers dream of getting their hands on. that's all you have

[coffee-n-ritalin]

27 February 2023

9/100 days of productivity

Got up by quarter to six, ran on a treadmill at the gym, showered and got to work on time

Today was hard, people kept asking me difficult questions

I read two full statutes and the entire jurisprudence on a specific topic. I visited three theory books. Then I produced two different texts on two separate issues

I thought, I used my brain from 8am to 8pm

I can't do a study session right now. I'm putting this one down as revising the topics I consulted on today (falls asleep)

#studyblr #lawblr #100 days of productivity #100 days of studying #real lawyer

[royall-ass]

i was rewatching svs and i love how janus just yells hes such a silly guy in that episode

#sanders sides #sanders sides fanart #tss fanart #patton sanders #patton sanders fanart #tss patton #tss patton fanart #i cant draw tears i know they suck #this isnt angst unless u want it to be #i just saw something silly on pinterest #pretend hes in the courtroom during svs #this is the real reason logan wanted to be the lawyer #cuz patton is to emotional

[sad-endings-suck]

“Why would you even ship that character with anybody?! He’s basically irredeemable to me—“

TO YOU!! He’s irredeemable to you. But some of us are silly geese that like our men to be the sexy, sad, feral, pathetic wet cats that they really are deep down, because we aren’t allergic to joy.

Is that okay with you??!? Is that permissible in the eyes of the Chronically Online Board of Hypothetical Ethics and Human Resources for Fictional Characters That Are Not Real™️®️.

You can go enjoy your curated selection of stale two dimensional wonderbread men in the corner, like the misguided pitiful lost soul that you are. the rest of us will be enjoying ourselves as our pathetic wet rag himbos and twinks kneel on the ground and beg to taste pussy/cock so hard they nearly come, like real men. just as god herself intended.

#but good luck on your pending prosecutions!! #I’ve heard that no one has actually ever convicted a fictional character of war crimes before but who knows!! you could be the first. #and then you’ll know that all those long hard hours you spent typing away were actually for nothing #because ✨real life✨ lawyers get paid but you did all that shit for free. you goofy ass bitch #okay okay #that was all meant to be humours and done in good faith but i MAY have gotten SLIGHTLY carried away. possibly #for real tho this wasn’t prompted by anyone or anything in particular i’m just stoned #🍃 thoughts #tumblr sexyman #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #bg3 wyll #bg3 halsin #taigen blue eye samurai #taigen #taimizu #bg3 memes #bg3 romance #asoiaf meta #jaime lannister #braime #reylo #kylo ren #klaroline #johnny silverhand #zutara #cp2077 #eric northman #true blood #captain jack sparrow

[bemusedlybespectacled]

so, in an update to alex jones' lawyers royally fucking up, they attempted to file an emergency motion asking for a mistrial. what new information we have:

the reason andino reynal had those documents is because norm pattis, alex jones' lawyer in a separate defamation case in connecticut, sent over all the documents he had to reynal, which included a clone of jones' phone.

part of that file was the private mental health records of the plaintiffs in the connecticut case. norm pattis may be allowed to have those documents as part of discovery on his side, but reynal isn't allowed to because those people aren't involved in this case.

reynal DID respond to bankston alerting him that he'd sent him stuff on accident by basically saying "oops, that was an accident, I'll get you different information later," and then 1) did not say anything else, like "those are work product" or "those are attorney/client privileged," and 2) didn't send anything else. so it's not even like he meant to send X file and sent Y instead, he never intended to send anything.

both sides were aware of the existence of some kind of text messages/emails from jones, but reynal repeatedly said that they had looked for documents on jones' phone and they had been deleted or did not exist, so they could not provide anything to the plaintiffs. which means he lied to the court MULTIPLE TIMES.

the judge is VERY clearly pissed off at reynal at this point for wasting her fucking time. she responded to his motion for a mistrial with, literally, "that's just a throw-away, right? like you don't actually mean that you want a mistrial?" like she is straight-up saying to reynal "there's no way you're seriously asking me this" and he's like "yes I am." OOF.

#alex jones sandy hook trial #personal #bb is a lawyer #lawblr #real lawblr

[welcometololaland]

rb if you've ever projected your real life into your fic

#i mean i think it's obvious i have #like every second fic someone is a lawyer #and like half of my cursed oc's are based on a real person #if you piss me off i'll make you into an evil oc #warning lmao

[livelaughlovebillkaulitz]

Real

#bill kaulitz #tokio hotel #tokio hotel x reader #bill kaulitz x reader #hes so babygirl #hes such a cutie patootie #i wish men were real #look at my lawyer dawg im going to jail