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Bitter Vault: Friends Don’t Let Friends Give Them Legal Advice

July 16, 2017 by Law Firm 10 12 Comments

Reason No. 2,341 that I hate being a lawyer: when a friend or family member asks for my legal advice.

Filed Under: Best of Bitter Lawyer, Columns, Law Firm 10, Lawyer Tagged With: family, free, lawyering, legal advice

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All Missile, No Warhead: Use Cliches Like a Lawyer

September 22, 2014 by Law Firm 10 7 Comments

Helpful cliches to be used liberally whenever anyone shows up to a meeting unprepared and gets called upon to speak unexpectedly

Filed Under: Law Firm 10, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, lawyering, legal writing

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Zimmerman & Anthony: Juries are Actually Pretty Good at What They Do

August 14, 2013 by M Walter 2 Comments

Make your story very simple! Don’t confuse the jury! We repeat these mantras over and over again. To our colleagues, we say things like “Well, yeah, but do you think a jury would understand that?” The trial attorney is constantly worrying that the poor uneducated peons on his or her jury just won’t understand his…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: criminal defense, criminal law, discrimination, jury duty, lawyering, public defenders

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5 Reasons Why Being a Lawyer is Really Not as Cool as I Thought

June 17, 2013 by M Walter 5 Comments

From the bad clients to the worse judges, we delve into the reasons why being a lawyer simply isn’t cool. At all.

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Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Lawyer Tagged With: debt, law jobs, lawyering, practicing law

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Karate-Style Trial Objections

December 4, 2012 by Gregory D. Luce 1 Comment

An illustrated guide to the ancient art of using karate-style objections at trial.

Filed Under: Infographlike Substances, Lawyer Tagged With: lawyering, trial preparation

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Confirming Letters from My Father, a Lawyer

October 4, 2012 by Gregory D. Luce Leave a Comment

This letter confirms our conversation in the breakfast room on March 10, 2012, in which I said “Good morning,” and you said “whatevs.” This also confirms that, for reasons I believe were apparent, we did not discuss matters further. This letter confirms last night’s discussion over dinner in which you indicated that you “never really…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: cover letters, gl11, lawyering, legal writing

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Biography of a Child Law Prodigy

September 14, 2012 by Gregory D. Luce Leave a Comment

The unfinished biography of Alton Jay Ferris, child law prodigy.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: gl11, Law Prodigy, lawyering

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What A Lawyer Does

February 10, 2012 by Gregory D. Luce Leave a Comment

What a lawyer does, a case study from a variety of perspectives

Filed Under: Infographlike Substances, Lawyer Tagged With: lawyering, public opinion

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Devolution of the Lawyer

February 6, 2012 by Albert Wang Leave a Comment

How a person devolves from undergrad to law school to first year associate to fifth-year associate to partner.

Filed Under: Comics, Lawyer Tagged With: comics, lawyering, lawyers

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Chronicles of a Government Lawyer: Coffee

January 11, 2012 by Martine Jean Leave a Comment

My office does not provide any complimentary coffee, that bitter nectar of gods. Welcome to the life of a government lawyer.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Chronicles of a Government Lawyer, coffee, lawyering

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