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What my boss did today... / Lawyers are Psychopaths - Proof!

« on: November 14, 2012, 09:08:56 AM »

A study was just published about the top professions linked to Psychopathic Personality Disorder.  Lawyers were #2 behind CEO's.  Are any of us truly surprised?

http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a437450/professions-with-most-psychopaths-revealed-lawyers-journalists.html

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Share Good Things Here / Must have been created by a Paralegal

« on: March 15, 2012, 09:30:23 AM »

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Share Good Things Here / Happy Friday!

« on: March 02, 2012, 01:20:23 PM »

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Workin' for the Weekend / Feelin' Old

« on: February 07, 2012, 11:24:02 AM »

You're welcome!

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Workin' for the Weekend / Wine

« on: January 31, 2012, 03:06:07 PM »

Yes, I'm a recovering Alkie, but I found this highly amusing.  A wine based on The Princess Bride:

http://princessbridewine.com/

Enjoy!

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General Stuff / If I Weren't A Paralegal, I would be...

« on: January 18, 2012, 08:22:15 PM »

moving antique furniture, or handling fragile objects. 

Because I used to work for a museum handling their old stuff.  That was my last job before falling into Da Law, which I did quite by accident.

So, if any of you weren't Paralegals, what do you think you would you be doing?

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Workin' for the Weekend / Best TV Show Review Ever

« on: January 13, 2012, 11:09:48 AM »

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Workin' for the Weekend / Cleverness

« on: December 16, 2011, 11:39:57 AM »

I'm SO doing this with our law library this weekend!!!

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Workin' for the Weekend / New Food/Cooking Blog Name Ideas

« on: November 16, 2011, 03:07:22 PM »

I'm planning to start a food blog of some sort.  Wanted to stick with my current theme and call it "The Grumpy Cook" but 2 other people beat me to it:

http://thegrumpycook.com/index2.html

and

http://thegrumpycook.tumblr.com/

Any ideas?  "Grumpy Cooks and Eats" is the best I can come up with, but it sounds too clunky, and still infringes on the other two. 

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What my boss did today... / Must... not... murder... lawyers...

« on: November 09, 2011, 11:56:01 AM »

So we get a filing in a Court that requires electronic filing.  Attorney gets it in the morning (without telling me), fiddles with it all day, then about 6:00 asks me to get it filed.  I ask for Attorney's login information for that filing system.  "Oh, noone here has a login, can you call the Court and get it set up tonight?  The deadline is today." 

AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

 

Let's just say I had a heart-to-heart with that associate about how to tell time, and the need to tell others about their deadlines as soon as THEY find out about said deadline.  Plus a terse reminder that Clerk's Offices are NOT 24-hour operations in our state. 

Then I made said associate call co-counsel and tell them we would not be able to make the filing deadline and WHY.  While I stood in the doorway glaring.

This morning, the managing partner met with Associate, who now looks scared.  Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.   

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Workin' for the Weekend / Vacation Planning

« on: October 21, 2011, 05:27:38 PM »

I have a week off coming up around New Year's.  Looking for suggestions what to do with it, although it needs to be within reason since I already did a long-distance tropical paradise getaway earlier in the year.  More of a low-cost road-trip thing, but winter-friendly.  I was thinking maybe New Orleans, rent a car and drive up the Mighty Mississippi to Memphis.  Thoughts?

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Share Good Things Here / Epic Judicial Smackdown

« on: September 03, 2011, 06:54:43 AM »

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/09/judge-ordered-remedial-civility-classes-the-new-killing-it/

A Judge in Delaware went crazy on counsel for acting like children.  We've all wanted to do this to our Attorneys at one point or another.

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General Stuff / WTF

« on: September 02, 2011, 07:15:41 AM »

WTF kind of law firm DOESN'T use MS Outlook for e-mail?  Isn't that the industry standard? 

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Workin' for the Weekend / Labor Day Weekend

« on: September 02, 2011, 07:14:21 AM »

My plans for the weekend completely fell through.  Now I have to stay home and actually DO stuff to The Money Pit.  *SHUDDER*

Hope everyone else has better plans...

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Workin' for the Weekend / Pets

« on: August 13, 2011, 02:05:37 PM »

OK, so after many requests here are a couple pictures of Stupid the Cat, my bestest pal in the whole widest world.