- law dawg
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How many of you ended up practicing in the area of law you always thought you would? Did you start law school with the intention of being a criminal prosecutor and end up doing insurance defense? How did you get there? Did you ever wonder what life would have been like if you had gone into a different practice area? We thought we would ask what areas of law you wish you had practiced in and what stopped you? Do you regret the decisions that got you where you are? Looking back at it now do you think you would have liked what you originally wanted? Or have you since learned that you avoided a miserable existence by not going into that area of law? Is it ever too late to change in your opinion?
Between the legal fees she paid, and the $95,000 loan to her campaign, that $70,000 she stole was quite expensive, even with the pay that she continues to receive.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/michele-fiore-has-lost-her-pahrump-justice-of-the-peace-seat-but-is-still-being-paid-3838798
Fiore will thankfully never take the bench again. But I expect that she will bounce around nominal elected positions in the cow counties for the rest of her life, scratching out a near subsistence living in rural grift. She may have a brief departure in DC where she may make some decent money until Trump leaves. Or maybe Trump just leaves her in Pahrump.
Trump does not like losers (as in people who lose elections). She is basura to him now.
She’s always been basura to the sentient world.
Trump will give her a high paying, low profile, low impact job. Remember, I said it here first!
I started out doing commercial litigation at a large, national firm. For a certain personality type, making partner at a big firm and continuing to bill like your life depends on it feels safe and comfortable. For me, I didn’t want my future largely dependent on a comp decision made by attorneys in other states.
So I left, and now I practice in a specialized area of the law—one I didn’t know much about when I graduated—at a high-end boutique, where I’m largely my own boss. Best, and scariest, decision I ever made was betting on myself!
This is my exact path as well. I left large firm practice and never looked back. I’m my own boss, my quality of life is fantastic, my partners and staff are amazing. My stress is largely limited only to demands of clients – not big firm nonsense, competition and working with an unbearable number of blow hards. I make a ton of money and my practice has exploded because I am not working under the thumb or control of manipulative higher ups who viewed me as nothing more than a cog to make them more money. 10/10 – can’t recommend enough. To attorneys reading this who feel like you’re stuck in a firm you’d like to escape – consider working in a smaller local office, you may take a small pay cut initially but your bonuses will be handsome and within a few years you’ll likely be making more money and you’ll add years to your life.
I was a social worker and always wanted to be a public defender. Except for a couple of years in a civil firm, I was a public defender for over 40 years-best job ever.
Why is a 76 y/o man using a “Juicy Couture” step stool to get out of the bed of his pickup truck?
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/defective-stool-from-ross-dress-for-less-led-to-clark-county-mans-death-lawsuit-alleges-3838971/?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=topnews&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=%E2%80%98Defective%E2%80%99%20stool%20from%20Ross%20Dress%20for%20Less%20led%20to%20Clark%20County%20man%E2%80%99s%20death%2C%20lawsuit%20alleges
I came out of law school during the Great Recession and got stuck doing construction defects before morphing into insurance defense commercial litigation. It pays well and is not horrible but not the entertainment law I saw myself doing when I started law school. Not sure what I’m missing out on. But am certainly comfortable where I am at.
I graduated at the same time and quickly fell into bankruptcy work. It turned out to be a good fit and I’m still doing it almost 20 years later. If the timing had been different I don’t think I would have considered it but it all worked out in the end.
yes, i think this timing of graduation had a big impact. I did as well, and i’ve noted that people that got done before or after tend to have a higher ‘risk tolerance’ for starting their own firms or going to boutiques. Nothing like having dozens if not hundreds of applicants for 2000 hr, $60,000 jobs back then.
This is a sliding-doors question. I will never know what might have been, but I am grateful for what is.
Are people still having issues with searching for cases on the new and much worse Nevada Supreme Court page? I have tried being as specific as I can be – attorney name, case number, name of the lead party, you name it, and the result is always the same: “No records were found.” In this day and age, I should not have to fill in five or six or more boxes and then still walk away with nothing. A Google-esque search request with a couple of key words, or nothing more than an attorney name or number, should be enough, and if it pulls up 20 cases or whatever, then fine. I can spend ten seconds scrolling to find what I want. Plus, you occasionally gain new and unexpected information that way, e.g. finding out that this party has filed umpteen other appeals, etc.
I tried my own bar number, which should have resulted in over a hundred appeals. It came back with “no records were found.” It turns out leading 00s were needed for my four digit bar number. One leading 0 for my four digit number did not work. Also, it appears that some five digit bar numbers do not require leading 0s, while others do. Consistency, and instructions providing guidance would have been nice.
Yeah, it was basically here ya go, good luck trying to find anything. I will say that the display of reported and unreported decisions is marginally better in that it tells you what the disposition of the case was without you having to open the opinion to find out. So that aspect is like a 5% improvement over the old system. The rest of it stinks. And who cares about leading zeroes? They aren’t used anywhere else so why should they be necessary here? it is like the whole thing was designed by some person or group of persons who have never actually been users or and who spent no time studying how users, including judges, clerks, and practitioners reasonably expect and need things to function.
By show of hands, how many people start with a bunch of zeroes when they stand up in court to announce their bar number?
Not being condescending and truly trying to be helpful: you know the case search website moved, correct?
This is where I am directed from the NSC website. Is there something newer that I don’t know about?
https://acis.nvcourts.gov/portal/search/case
Nevada Appellate Courts Public Portal – https://acis.nvcourts.gov/portal/home – This one, correct? You can access it from the Court’s main website, but unfortunately there is not a link back to the Court’s website once you are there. Another flaw in the new design.
There used to be a nice feature on the old version that provided appeal case numbers and links to related cases (such as direct appeal and habeas appeals for the same defendant). I don’t see that feature on the new version. Does anyone know if it is hiding somewhere?