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Fri Aug-25-06 08:43 PM
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Proof "thinking like a lawyer" is going to make me (more) annoying: |
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At the grocery store tonight, I wondered if, when I opened the freezer door and about half a million individual peas came tumbling out, I would be liable for negligence should someone get hurt if I did not report the mishap in a timely manner. I thought about it using the objective standard (what a "reasonable person" would do in that situation). And then I thought that many "reasonable people" suck, and I bet a jury would hold someone liable for something that the individual members may still do and not admit it.
I am willing to bet my SO is happy I did not go grocery shopping with him.
(I reported the avalanche of peas, just in case.)
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Fri Aug-25-06 08:47 PM
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1. Have you joined FAC yet? |
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Future Ambulance Chasers
:yoiks:
(Seriously, you couldn't have picked a better "fit" as a profession. You're gonna be awesome, my friend.)
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Fri Aug-25-06 08:57 PM
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2. No, I did not join the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. |
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Fri Aug-25-06 10:12 PM
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8. I hope at this very early stage of your training . . . |
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. . . you do not have any prejudices against "trial lawyers." ;)
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Fri Aug-25-06 10:20 PM
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9. Nope...but it is the student group that attracts the future ambulance |
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chasers (as well as the future ethical trial lawyers).
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Fri Aug-25-06 10:26 PM
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10. Defense attorneys are trial lawyers, too. |
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Fri Aug-25-06 09:03 PM
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3. Why do lawyers wear their ties so tight? |
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So their foreskin doesn't ride up over their head.
Not that this applies to you, but this is my favorite lawyer joke.
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Fri Aug-25-06 09:06 PM
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to pea on the floor????
:rofl: :rofl:
:hide: you knew it was going to be asked!
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Fri Aug-25-06 09:34 PM
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5. You had no duty toward any potential injured person. |
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No duty, no negligence. :)
You'll learn. ;)
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Fri Aug-25-06 10:07 PM
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6. We've only touched on negligence, so yeah...I've got a long way to go... |
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I did spend a good amount of time at the grocery store deciding that the objective standard (in any legal context -- torts, contracts, whatever) really does require a suspension of disbelief. It's really the *ideal* standard -- ideally, a reasonable person would believe X, but many many people suck and some of them are going to end up on a jury.
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Fri Aug-25-06 10:11 PM
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"But many many people suck and some of them are going to end up on a jury."
And it is going to be your job to educate them. ;)
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