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As crazy as it sounds, I'm grateful that we have finally figured out that working remotely from a home office is legitimately possible. The vastly improved technology for video calls, virtual backgrounds, and background noise cancellation (I'm talking to you dogs); combined with the courts being dumped into this out of necessity and realizing that we never had to come to court and sit through a 2 hour hearing stack for a 1 minute status check, and that we could do hearings virtually.
My productivity has gone up in that I can get the same amount of work done in 6-7 hrs that used to take 8-10 hours due to drive-time to the office, drive-time to court, etc. It's been great.
I just wish it could have been done voluntarily and not as a result of a pandemic that wreaked havoc around the world.
The question is, do you still bill like you've drove to and attended a 2-hour hearing for a 1-minute status check? Unfortunately, I know attorneys that do and are rewarded for it.
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There's a word for that: fraud. I love that remote appearances save my clients money.
@12:56p – OP Here – I don't have to bill those clients like I'm driving to and attending a 2 hr hearing for a 1 min status check. I bill my other clients for the work I'm doing for them using the time I don't have to drive. I do, though, have to bill them for the time spent on Bluejeans waiting for the case to be called of course.
To staff members who are surly, insolent, half assing it and still demanding pay raises right now:
Yeah, for the short-term, we're fucked. We have to keep you no matter how shitty and indifferent you are to your job. But this isn't going to last. When the economy cools off, even a little bit, you're gonna be the first to go.
To the staff giving it your all: Bonuses are coming now, and security later. Your efforts are appreciated.
Or maybe it's the management that doesn't know how to manage. Management that blames people instead of processes beyond their control, that prejudges people and prebiases fact patterns, that never praises but always finds petty fault, that gravitates naturally and socially to the people "like them," and that gives five stars to the little star and no stars to the unappreciated stars doing the grunt work. To that management, I say: This isn't going to last. You may be able to get away with it for now, but sooner or later word gets around, and remember . . . people talk.
To law firm management: F your lies and your greed.
Typo: "The blog is pointless with you reading, commenting, and making suggestions."
Does anyone have a good polygraph examiner to recommend in the Las Vegas area? A client has an employee theft problem and asked me for a referral.
Who does the blog think is the most successful Boyd grad? Claggett? Someone that made partner at a big name firm? A legislator like Horne/Flores/Anderson? One of the gaming control folks like Harris or Johnson?
I would say Frierson is the one who comes to mind first – I suppose it depends on what you view as successful but he seems like he's on a good trajectory and has had a varied career.
Jason Frierson, known him since 2004 . A smart, good man. Congratulations on your appointment, Jason. A cool dude.
I need to get out of law, to be honest. It is a miserable, soul sucking career. I'm grateful that it lets me take care of my family, though there has to be a better way.
Yeah…this job is hell. It's made me physically ill. I warn everyone I can not to go to law school.
It is hell. Cannot believe the shit pulled by attorneys and judges. Whenever I read something negative in an order or in briefs, I just ignore it. Hope you find peace, and learn not to give a shit about things like I have. Happy Holidays to you!
How long have you been in the practice of law OP? What other options/careers are you looking at?
You are not anyone unless you have been attacked by a judge. I see it more often with female attorneys than the males. Wear it is a badge of honor. These judges are on a power trip.. I have an at a pi firm for 25 years.
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10:21 AM–Female attorneys attacked by a judge. Very odd comment. Are you a female or male attorney? Majority of judges are female so are female judges discriminating agaainst female attorneys. Seems unlikely. Maybe the female attorneys are just not prepared or doing a lousy job. Sounds like victim talk to me–just saying.
The poster's sex does not matter.
You mean gender.
Female judges attack female attorneys more often than male judges do. Forsberg and Mastin both clearly hate other women, attorneys and litigants. I saw Mastin make some incredibly inappropriate comments to females when she was doing TPOs. I was surprised it wasn't more of an issue in her campaign.
7:15 PM–Female judges attacking female attorneys. Family Court is almost like another jurisdiction onto itself.