Don’t Let Your Children Become Lawyers…

Filed in National by on May 30, 2009

I have been in court all week, hence my lack of posts here, and thus the lack of Around the Horn Friday on Friday. Luckily, it was a slow week, what with the Memorial Day Holiday. So next Friday, I will post an extra large Around the Horn Friday for your reading pleasure.

For those that don’t know, being on trial is not as glamorous or interesting as it appears on TV. It becomes your life. You are at the office from before dawn to get together whatever it is you need before heading to the courtroom at 9:30. Then you rush back to the office for a quick lunch and email and voicemail check. And then you are in court again from 1 until 5. Then you meet with the Judge in his chambers to go over any pending motions to exclude evidence or objections to evidence. That lasts until 6 or so. Then back at the office to prepare for the next day of testimony, which usually lasts until 11 or later, and usually later. You don’t eat right. You don’t sleep. You don’t read what you don’t have to read, which means the whole of the internet. You don’t watch what you don’t have to watch, which means the whole of TV. But it is what they pay us for.

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  1. jason330 says:

    It is always the husband. Just cut to the chase. (When the husband is the stiff, it is the wife.) There. I just saved you hours and hours of work.

  2. Sounds like your are the type of attorney to hire. Of course, I could look at it as why do you wait until the trial to cram. 🙂

    Either way, keep up the good work of keeping the system honest.

  3. We missed you at Drinking Liberally.

  4. cassandra_m says:

    Whinewhinewhine. 😛

    No worries about the Around the Horn. We don’t let anything exciting happen without you. We even drowned our sorrows that you weren’t posting on Thursday. But we don’t remember that.

  5. Delaware Dem says:

    LOL. David…. it is like cramming for a test. And the reason for that is because you want to be sure you are going to trial before you do all that work. About 90% of cases, whether criminal or civil, settle before trial, and the client is not going to pay for trial preparation work if there is no trial. Thus, we are forced to cram.

  6. LOL, you actually felt compelled to give a serious answer even though you knew it was a joke. Get some sleep.

    I did miss Around the Horn. I punished myself several times by coming back to look for it Friday evening.

  7. meatball says:

    ……..Or a nurse,

    Dude, I have a hard time empathizing with you. Lunch? Sounds good to me.