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What do you do about lunch in the legal profession? Do you pack one and eat at your desk? Do you go out every day? Do you make a point of taking staff to lunch? Do you spend lunch alone in your car or are you always trying to get someone to go with you? What are the expectations for bringing back lunch for someone else? What’s the best place in town for lunch? What’s the best plan for lunch if you’re at the RJC?
When I’m in trial I make sure to have two Ensure Complete Nutrition shakes on hand per day of expected trial time. The one-hour lunch break usually becomes a working affair, so being able to throw down one of those stops the hunger and provides a good nutritious boost. They’re 10 ounces of liquid, 30 grams of protein, lots of vitamins, a small amount of carbs, and a healthy 350 calories so they do a great job of satiating me. Removes the need to go to Capriotti’s for a turkey bomb/nap inducer.
I love the Great Greek located at 801 S Main St Suite 140, Las Vegas, NV 89101. I order the kid’s meal. The right size and great value. No afternoon coma with this fresh Mediterranean fare. The dining room is bright and airy.
Warning: If you send your paralegal to negotiate the case with me, I going to be polite at first but if it continues I am going to go El Scorcho. They will have no one to blame but you.
El Scorcho has great lunch specials.
fantastic chile relleno
I think you’d be good for me and I’d be good for you.
I dislike packing lunch so i either go out or go home for lunch. So lunch is often in my car. I’ll go out with someone for lunch if they ask, but i rarely initiate.
I take colleagues, clients and referral sources to lunch. The firm pays. When I don’t have one of those scheduled, it’s strictly Tupperware and leftovers. I have a supply of instant noodles and canned fruit in my office as a back up. I no longer use my own money to eat out.
Your firm pays every time you and the boys get lunch? That’s nice.
1:37 PM here. No, I don’t just go buy lunch for the boys. I target the lunches to people that send me work or that I believe could send me work. Some of those people are “my boys.” But I try to keep each total lunch tab below $100 and not take any single person to lunch too often. I’ve been careful not to abuse it and have never received pushback. Sometimes, I go over $100 a bit, especially for sushi, but I really do try to be careful. I have kids. Kids are expensive. I’m done using my money to eat out, at least for several more years. I get to enjoy some decent restaurants and good conversations because of this generosity.
How do you handle this…. Other side sends you a proposed order. You send it back with your markups and state that upon acceptance of your changes they may add your electronic signature. They attach your email to the back of the original Order and submit it to the department (ex parte of course).
Send a competing order.
Not of much use once the Court issues the other side’s (incorrect) order because it was emailed to the department with your email on the back but without notice to you
Reach out to them and tell them about the mistake and tell them to remedy the situation immediately. If they don’t, then let the Court know, probably with a letter explaining what happened and your own competing order.
Look at the department competing order guidelines. Each has their own. This sounds typical-ish. Usually opposing counsel minimally tells me I need to submit my own order. Otherwise – this is unlikely ex-parte. Until our district court judges start drafting their own orders or issuing more detailed minute orders – this is the life in the 8th
When I was a young associate during the Pleistocene Epoch, about 25-50% of the firm (around 14-16 attorneys or so in our big firm branch office) would head out to lunch probably twice each week, give or take. A partner always picked up the tab, and most people had a glass of wine. Those were the days. I think the write-off rules were easier back then too.
We won’t talk about when I was a law clerk for Nevada Supreme Court and we had 6 hour lunches almost every Friday. We would go to Gardnerville for Basque Food (fabulous steak and fries) and Picon Punch. I was the designated driver.
OVERLAND RESTAURANT those were the days!!!!!!!!!!!
Then go the the Pink House in Genoa for more drinks.
As a younger attorney, I wish having a beer at lunch was still normal. Everyone at the firm is too paranoid, and there’s a few narcs around.
As a midde-aged solo practitioner who either eats alone or skips lunch most days, I won’t narc on ya.
I pack an adult version of the lunchable a croissant, brie, and prosciutto.
You guys get a lunch break? Lucky!
MAC has a chief 4 days a week. Brilliant way to promote collaboration and actually improve productivity.
Indian or fire truck variety?
For secretaries and paralegals their lunch hour is sacred and cannot be disturbed. Meanwhile Ii am in my office eating a small bag of Doritos.
Woe is me, my employees have rights!