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Looks like the apocalypse is in the forecast again, and it's not even easter yet

making GBC bound briefs with appropriately colored covers for myself even though we don't have to serve physical copies any more

My love language is cocktails

I have a joke about finishing in the bottom half in an F1 race, but it's pointless.

can anyone recommend a good book about Canadian history?

The lawyer version of I'm going to become the Joker

online advertisers: hey, let's pay to offer people things they just bought a few days ago

just realized that in My Cousin Vinny, the first thing the judge asks is my rule number one: read the local rules

Appellee's Notice Regarding the Court's Order smdh. Respectfully submitted,

shout out to Lewis Hamilton!

this car is driving behind me and I am low-key scared

OC: we would like your consent to our motion to file a revised brief me: First of all, how dare you

Wow. This belongs in my specialty reporter series F.Up

Reactions to this are fascinating: many are offended; some think it's AI; some blame Word; some just want to talk about what good organization would be or the relationship between paralegals & lawyers. Very few suggest its just extremely shoddy work that's entirely the attorney's fault.

on the other hand, the sequence is entirely unpredictable and would make a very strong password

Actual section numbering in a brief I'm reading: I. A. B. C. II. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. B. C. a. II. c. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 2. D. 2. E. b. f.

Even the weather is acting like a clown that doesn't know what it's doing.

daffadowndilly shook her yellow head, looked to her neighbor and said "Holy fuck it's snowing!"

it was 80 degrees yesterday

Thatcher deadline? Be a shame Simpson-thing . . . happened to it.

why aren't more of you up?

I bet there are a lot of guys who all the sudden have decided to go by Rich or Ricky or even Dick in the last few years. A lot of guys with the last name Epstein I mean.

Bluesky can we please fix threading? A thread is an adventure in which we follow the poster on whatever crazy path they take us and then at the end we wee what everyone commented along the way. None of this "show 3 more posts" when there are 20 and btw start at the beginning. cc @pfrazee.com

guys if you invite me to a teams meeting and I have the camera on, you should too it's just polite. If you want to be just a voice call on the phone

Huh. COGS means both cost of goods sold and certificate of good standing which is low key sus

related to my earlier thread: My personal tell is "they don't do X; instead they Y." If AI used my style, we would all be able to recognize AI from that construction.

The thing is, every one of the ai passages has a tell. I chose 4/5 human, but I knew the one AI I chose was AI. Spoilers below: /1

Markwayne sound like a name for a bird based on its what its call sounds like

I don't know how it is in y'all's cities but in DC there is literally no place where you could just run into a random building, go up the stairs, wind up on the roof and then run jumping from roof to roof like they do in the movies.

really looking forward to Canada Day this year

Calendar clerk: please provide the days you are unavailable for oral argument in response to this email OC: new phone who dis

me and bad brains

I am banned from the library of the Supreme Court of the United States.

ECF jump-scare

people like to think that biglaw doesn't give you good training but I can tell you that my firm they had awesome templates for everything and they teach associates how to use styles

this. if you're not using styles, you might as well be using mimeograph paper and corrective tape to prepare a brief. or maybe you're just manually cutting out words and pasting them down with glue.

so the lesson for future unethical leaders is you should care about the resignation even if you don't care about the ethics. I recommend filing this advice under FA, cross-referenced to FO. /x

And apparently, a lot of competence walks out the door along with the ethics. /4

well it looks like we're getting a real-time answer to my what ifs, which seems to be if you keep asking the unethical things, all the ethical people wind up leaving and you're left with, well, whatever's left /3

And I guess the answer is they might care about being exposed even if they don't care about being ethical. but what if they don't care about being exposed? /2

so imma admit something here. I understand resigning rather than do something unethical I mean obviously you do thatl, but I never understood why the threat to resign should work. why should the person asking you do the unethical thing care? /1

a Linkedin add on that suggests when it might be a good idea to dump one of your connections

Google be like hey I thought you might be interested in the dow allasudden

"motivated dilettantism" is the most brutal and accurate description of this phenomenon I have ever heard. A person of integrity would wither at the possibility that phrase might apply to them

one big AI tell is "it's not this, it's that." besides also using em dashes, what would be the tell if AI wrote like you? for me it's gotta be "they don't argue* x, instead they y" ____ * refute/dispute/challenge/etc

one time @huma.bsky.social helped me plan an online like happy hour or Christmas party or something and that was pretty cool

drug manufacturer: this medicine costs $1 billion, but let's see how much your insurance will pay insurance company: I know you really need the medicine but sorry we are only willing to pay $250 drug manufacturer: That's cool, here's a coupon for $999,999,750

how much are we paying to have the national guard hang out on street corners in DC and sometimes maybe walk from place to place? I mean what are they supposed to be doing?

For the record, the development in question is the invention of (cleaned up), and you're welcome for that. Converting it to a facially-inaccurate version and doing so because of a cowardly personal grudge by someone in power, well, I don't think that's a very good development no I do not