- Quickdraw McLaw
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This article says Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for a second month. We continue to see headlines about worker shortages. What’s your assessment of the situation? Why haven’t you quit? Why are you still working? Do you foresee this being a problem in the legal industry? Will it be worse or better in Vegas?
Where am I going to go and make $90k – 120k if not as a lawyer?
In-n-out https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/managers-at-in-n-out-burger-make-160000-a-year-heres-how-it-works.html
10:06-That's the basic problem when they suspend a lawyer for five years, or in some cases even disbar the lawyer, but then order the lawyer to pay 1.8 million in restitution.
I get the fact that the lawyer, depending on the severity of the case, may deserve to lose the privilege to practice for that five year period, if not forever.
But we should never lose sight of the fact of how counterintuitive it is to order them to reimburse 1.4 million if they are now deprived of what would have been by far their best likelihood to pay back some of the money.
12:12, I don't necessary disagree with your argument in theory, but in application it does not quite work the way you envision.
In the example you offer it's not as if the guy kicks ass in future practice and timely pays back the $1.4 million.
Instead what would most likely happen is that essentially he would not succeed in getting back in the saddle as a successful practitioner.
First, he'd need a supervising/mentoring attorney, and no one in their right mind would sign on for such horror due to the liability implications, the nightmare of babysitting the practice of someone that dysfunctional, while still running one's own practice, etc.
Secondly, if the disciplined attorney remains a problem gambler, druggie, or otherwise someone always severely in need of money, but are now denied the ability to raid the trust account, but instead must obtain State Bar approval for every single dime they remove from their practice, very few such disciplined attorneys would have any interest in such arrangement. And that is even more true when considering the large percentage of every earned dollar that must be taken right off the top for restitution of the damaged clients.
Third, attorneys whose lives and careers have been derailed by such immense discipline are seldom able to again attract solid paying cases and clients.
The only exception to all this is the very occasional attorney who has successful combated all the demons that causes them to be so severely disciplined in the first place.
12:28– Could not disagree with you more. You are a lawyer who hit your trust account? Get your butt to work while we install a receiver over the practice who will control/audit the accounts; State Bar already does this with auditors and accountants. OR We do not allow you to run your own practice and agree to a wage assignment. If you think attorneys would not agree to strictly supervised work and instead would walk away from the practice to go sell cars, then you know a very different group of attorneys than I do.
You need a supervising/mentoring attorney? State Bar already does this and has no issue finding mentoring attorneys who do the mentorship or installing prohibitions against one practicing on their own (in fact the State Bar actually has this backwards and does not allow supervising attorneys in a firm to serve as mentors which is counterintuitive).
As to your third point, there are very successful attorneys in this town who have returned rehabilitated and restored from disciplinary processes. And isnt that what we really want is rehabilitated attorneys who pay restitution as opposed to destruction of attorneys with no restitution to victims? (Don't answer Justice Hardesty because we know where you come down on the issue).
The goal should be restitution and rehabilitation which is the best for all of the persons involved, especially victims.
To make a long story short, I took a new position because the lateral opportunities in this market were significantly better than they have been at any time since I started my law career.
Sure, I gained a lot of experience and am a much more qualified commodity, but I see lateral opportunities at almost all levels of experience that I just don't recall before.
When i finished my clerkship, people were taking what they could get. It was a bad recession time. Now, we just have a market where more lawyers aren't happy to just have a job and get crapped on in a firm that they hate for years for purposes of meeting an arbitrary amount of time in a resume.`
I've been completely overwhelmed with extra shit since the COVID quarantine, and even though my pay check is good I feel like its Monopoly Money when I realize it costs me $100 to fill up my gas tank to drive to work, $150 to go out to dinner because I'm too worn out to cook for myself, and the formerly $200,000 house is now on the market for half a million.
Take your equity and buy gold, silver and crypto, cause the USD aint recovering from this shit show. No chance.
I'm a happy remote worker making well over 6 figures. Not quitting. Also not a lawyer. Great blog though.
Is your employer hiring?
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Jon Gruden's suit is in front of J. Allf. Would you lodge a peremptory challenge or no?
No.
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