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@thelegendofclarke / thelegendofclarke.tumblr.com

Mere. She/Her. Multifandom. House Stark Loyalist™. Salty winter adult and permanently exhausted pigeon. Known for my viciousness, continuous bullshit, two-faced fuckery, and desperation to maintain my BNF/Meta Queen status.
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Friends, Fam, Countrymen, Fellow Lawblrs, lend me your supersonic hearing ears...

If you ever find yourself writing a brief, no matter which side you are on, in a case before an Appeals Court... Please, for the love of GOD, do NOT write like an insufferable know-it-all.

First of all, it is an epic pain in the ass to read. Seriously, it’s funny for about the first 12-14 minutes, and then it will start making whatever law clerk is reading it want to claw your (and also their own) (but mostly your) eyes out. Our eyesight is already atrocious enough, we don’t need to blind ourselves eye rolling over nonsense; that will just make us more crabby with you. It also makes it incredibly tempting to ask during oral arguments what it’s like to have your head so far up your ass you can lick your own colon. I mean you’re practically a Modern Medical Marvel... I’ve truly never heard of anyone being able to give themselves a colonoscopy.

B of all, I know this will never happen to a single one of you, but on the slight, off chance that you are wrong, you are not doing yourself any favors, making us want to cut you any slack, or encouraging us be generally nice/civil to you in our opinion in any way, shape, or form. Chances are, an Appeals Court Judge is going to carpe diem tf out of any chance to tear you a new asshole. You already have one asshole to shove your head up, you don’t need any more. That would just be overwhelming... Your dickishness totally makes us want to be a dick to you, kinda makes judges want to be a dick to you, and is pretty much guaranteeing opposing counsel will probably be a dick to you. Just, don’t give us so much material; no one needs this much material.

And finally, ngl, it really comes off as unprofessional. You went to law school, you passed the bar, you are a licensed attorney, you probably have a drinking and/or drug problem, you have learned and forgotten what the difference between a trust and an estate is, you have survived and out lived all the gunners in your classes, you have seen some shit. I have the utmost faith that you are capable of making your arguments without sounding like you are giving a condescending Ted Talk or part of a contemptuous rap battle... I BELIEVE IN YOU!

I know that facing off in front of an Appeals Court can be nerve wracking and also annoying, you know what you’re doing and you are going to be just fine. My (totally unprofessional, completely unsolicited, seriously sleep deprived, way over caffeinated) advice: Be as generally pleasant and respectful as possible, know your audience, read the room, take pity on the sanity of poor law clerks everywhere, and ffs just be cool.

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Please reblog this with a photo of your home’s furry office manager, with a description of the working conditions you are now being asked to adjust to 

For Example: Meet Assistant to the Estates Department, Daisy. She insists we go outside every two hours to just check on the view from the backyard. You know, in case it has changed. She also naps on the job, like, a lot.

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vulcanette

Keiko manages the trusts and estates, real estate and corporate business transactions departments. She is a chill boss, except she gets riled when the mailman has the audacity to come to our office. She also likes to chime in and make herself heard whenever anyone is having a conference call :)

This is Freja, she’s currently supervising a draft order on a 60(b)(6) motion (ineffective assistance of counsel). When we break for lunch, she insists we walk around the neighborhood. I guess she’s on a fitness kick or something…

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charmedatlaw

Percy, Head Paw Clerk for the Probate Department

He may need anger management training - when disappointed with the pace of work he throws his toys onto the keyboard in frustration. Or to play, one of the two

Sophie. When not napping in the sun or destroying her ten million toys, she is begging me to take her outside outside outside every five minutes or begging me to give her whatever I’m stress eating. She’s been reported to HR but HR tells me to leave her alone since she’s a Good Girl.

this is Napa, professional Blanket Thief, part time law clerk assistant, and full time pain in the ass.

she has not given one single crap about hanging out with me in the past few decades. but now that i am working from home and have to get shit done, she is very invested in us spending Quality Time together.

this is (apparently) where she camps out on the stairs leading up to our home office and whines like a dying cat banshee when i won’t let her in to help me with whatever i’m doing (aka bug the ever loving shit out of me). apparently she’s very concerned about my well being and sits here like worried mother hen waiting for her children to return from war until i come out...

(tagging @bythunder​ to do this bc i KNOW Thunder is taking his new occupation very seriously)

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Once while I was at a “professional mentor happy hour” thing set up by my school’s Women’s Law Association, an older female attorney told me “don’t tell anyone at work you love pink!” And honestly the very first thing I remember thinking was “there’s no way in hell I’m taking career advice from someone who hasn’t seen Legally Blonde.”

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Top ten quotes from law school, week one:

  1. “So the rules thus far are ‘don’t be late’ and ‘don’t be absent from class,’ unless you are absent because of circumstances outside your control. In that case, notify me before class. If I walk in here and you are not in your seat, and I don’t already know why that is the case… I will assume that you are dead. We will hold a brief service in your memory and then continue on, as we know you would want.”
  2. “Yeah I mean if you don’t know the answer that’s fine, but I’m gonna make you pick the next person I call on. It’s a social experiment I run. I like to see if people pick their friends or their enemies. Wildly amusing. Anyway, be prepared for that.”
  3. “So as the plaintiff’s counsel, you review all the possible venues and pick the one that’s the fairest to everyone….. haaaaahahaha I’m just kidding. You rig the court in your favor as much as you possibly can.”
  4. “You’re supposed to go to a basement during a tornado. Why don’t y'all have basements?” “Can’t watch from a basement” “You’re going to die”
  5. “My own law professor once described admiralty jurisdiction as ‘shit that happens on boats’ so [writes ‘boat shit’ on the board]”
  6. “So then Congress gave itself a raise and America shouted, ‘Give it back you evil bastards!!!’ so loudly that they did.”
  7. “I will provide you with pizza. For beverages, you’re on your own, but please abide by Baylor policy. Which is that we can’t have FUN.”
  8. “And WHAT do we find outside the cities????? C O W S”
  9. “All the desks on the third floor are reserved for 3Ls in practice court. Since you’re dying like, 100% of the time, they kindly give you a place to die. Sometimes you can see the lost souls wandering past the balconies….”
  10. [makes a list of twenty-four things that could go wrong] [writes TRUMP in all caps as number twenty-five]

Round two:

  1. “You don’t want conservatives! You want someone that will redistribute a little wealth! Get some commies! But don’t ask for them out loud, or it won’t end well.”
  2. “Occasionally someone will walk into your office and start with ‘well just as a matter of principle…’ and that right there? That’s when you pull out your extra-strength Advil, because it will be a long day.
  3. “You can walk into a restaurant and just say, ‘I want tea.’ Sweet is implied! If you don’t want it sweet, it’s ‘tea, hold the sugar,’ and I like that!”
  4. “My biggest goal is to die in Texas. When Gabriel’s trumpet blows, I will be resurrected from Texas dirt… if at all. Depends on his standards.”
  5. “And I say, ‘How much will you pay me?’ and they say ‘a shitload!’ And I say, ‘how much is a shitload?’ and what do you know? Our definitions match”
  6. “So you see that it’s an unincorporated association, and your reaction to that should be ‘shit!’ That is absolutely the proper reaction. That’s a good reaction.”
  7. “You know it’s not perjury if you cross your fingers, right?”
  8. “I would definitely shank someone for pizza.”
  9. “Right now you’re… you’re lawyer larvae. I have a sense for these things.”
  10. “So obviously Congress sprang into action. Why are you laughing? Oh yeah, BECAUSE IT’S BEEN A QUARTER CENTURY”

Round three:

  1. “And by that I mean CRAC, the acronym, not c-r-a-c-k as in crack. Although I was a defense attorney for a long time, so if you want to know how to make crack, we can cover that in a side session. It’s good information. Very interesting.”
  2. “And then I file a complaint against my employer for discriminating against me as a white, Anglo-Saxon protestant. You know… [sarcastically] the historically discriminated against crew”
  3. “Listen, I like money. It’s the love of money that’s the root of all evil. You can like it just fine.”
  4. “With the well-pleaded complaint rule, we take a scalpel and we carve out the cause of action. We lift it out of the body, bleeding! It is BLEEDING in your hands! You hold it in front of your face and you ask it, ‘WHO CREATED YOU?’ [groaning] ‘A federal law.’ ‘THEN YOU ARE A FEDERAL CASE!’ If it’s a state case, you cast it, still-beating, aside. And stomp on it.”
  5. [with deep respect] “You would make a really good anarchist”
  6. “Beaumont? How’s your family doing?” “Pretty well. I mean, everything is underwater, but it’s fine.”
  7. “Your argument is what? ‘You can’t make that much money because it isn’t fair?’ This is America. Fair doesn’t matter.”
  8. “We need ONLY one more thing: someone rich to sue. Can she help us?? We don’t know… until she describes one word on the side of that truck…. ‘Walmart.’ CHA  C H I N G (don’t say that part out loud)! What’s forty percent of thirty million?? TWELVE MILLION. Forty percent is the ONLY math I can do in my head, because that is PRIVATE JET MONEY, BABY! The ONLY POINT of being rich is to HAVE A PRIVATE JET, because THOSE THAT DO can MANIPULATE TIME. As you can see, I am passionate on this point.”
  9. “See this is a tough question because legislators are supposed to make laws, but how would you know that? They haven’t done it in YEARS.”
  10. “Listen I don’t condone murder-suicide, but like… I feel it.”
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Anonymous asked:

Do you have any advice for someone who is looking to switch career paths to go to law school and become a lawyer?

Oh man Anonny… Honestly, I feel like making the choice to change careers and go back to school is just such a huge decision and unique experience. And it’s one that I can say with total certainty that I would have never had the mental or emotional wherewithal to handle, so I almost feel like there’s no way I could comment on it or give advice. 

BUT, what I can do is put this in the lawblr tags and see if anyone who HAS done it can offer any pointers. HELP US OUT FRIENDS?!

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mexican-not-mexicant replied to your post

While I agree with their point I find it almost completely improbable that an actual lawyer would have and actively use a fucking tumblr account

HO MY GAD hahaaaalskdjhgsalkjdgh 

THIS IS BY FAR THE DUMBEST LAWYER STEREOTYPE I HAVE HEARD TO DATE!!!

Seriously though... I am going to put this in the lawblr tags and tag @12b6, @lawschoolruinedme, @accidental-criminals, @anwate, @jeeno2, @gendryxaryatrash and ALL my other law/lawyer friends just so they can tell you how wrong you are! 

Enjoy :)

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Anonymous asked:

lmfao wow congratulations you did the bare minimum to become a lawyer

I can tell you think this was a #sickburn but like… *head tilt* ????

“Bare minimum” is a pretty relative standard here. I mean just as an example, if you compare the bare minimum requirements for becoming a lawyer versus the bare minimum requirements for becoming a neckbeard anonymously trolling strangers on the internet, you are going to come up with very different things.

Hey @anwate, @accidental-criminals, @lawschoolruinedme, @12b6, @lydiia-martins, @lunaplath, @gendryxaryatrash and all my other lawblr friends: what was the best part of YOUR bare minimum for becoming a lawyer!?? TELL ME YOUR STORIES! For me it was definitely the thousands of dollars of debt, the insomnia, and developing carpal tunnel.

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Anonymous asked:

can i ask, do you have any more advice about legal issues for the hurricane?

Hey Anonny, I hope you and your family are as well and safe as possible!

Oh gosh let me think... Well okay first of all, I am in no way an expert on this particular type of law at all, so this is just personal advice from someone who happened to go to law school. 

  • Like that post said, take photos and videos of everything you are able to safely. IF you can find photos of the condition they were in before the storm, that would also be helpful. 
  • Also like I said, proof of purchase and ownership for anything big like vehicles, as well as proof of insurance for them, would be a good thing to have as well. 
  • If you lease and do not own your property, try to make sure you have a copy of the lease, at least electronically if nothing else. 
  • If you can, save all your forms of identification: driver’s license, passport, birth certificate, and social security cards are the big ones. 
  • Also, try and find out if there are any deadlines for filing claims that you need to be aware of. (For e.g. the deadline for filing for FEMA relief I believe for Harvey was Sept. 1). And if you do run into issues with deadlines or insurance filings, keep a paper trail. You don’t necessarily need to give up, just keep records of your efforts. 

I’m going to put this in the Lawblr tag, so if any of my fellow law nerds have anything to add feel free!

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Reminiscing with @jeeno2 reminded me of this absolute GIFT of a Logic Game practice problem I found during my LSAT prep many moons ago! 

[Caption: Seven seagulls: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, will shit on the goofy hats of two Amish men, Jacob and Hezekiah. Seagulls A, B, C, and D are male, and seagulls E, F, and G are female. Each seagull will shit on exactly one of the two men, and each man will be shit on by at least one seagull.
The following conditions must apply: At least two male seagulls will shit on Jacob. At least two female seagulls will shit on Hezekiah. If D shits on Jacob, then F does not shit on Hezekiah. If D does not shit on Jacob, then G shits on Jacob. A and B will shit on the same Amish man.]

I am going to need the questions that came along with this because as a former LSAT instructor, I feel like it’s my duty to draw out the image of multiple seagulls shitting on Amish men. 

@lawschoolruinedme I got you fam! Also you WOULD be an LSAT instructor, I am completely and totally unsurprised by that fact tbh... 

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Reminiscing with @jeeno2 reminded me of this absolute GIFT of a Logic Game practice problem I found during my LSAT prep many moons ago! 

[Caption: Seven seagulls: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, will shit on the goofy hats of two Amish men, Jacob and Hezekiah. Seagulls A, B, C, and D are male, and seagulls E, F, and G are female. Each seagull will shit on exactly one of the two men, and each man will be shit on by at least one seagull.
The following conditions must apply: At least two male seagulls will shit on Jacob. At least two female seagulls will shit on Hezekiah. If D shits on Jacob, then F does not shit on Hezekiah. If D does not shit on Jacob, then G shits on Jacob. A and B will shit on the same Amish man.]
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Hello lovely! I have a slightly random question for you. Before the lawblr tag got taken over by all the aesthetic study photo nonsense, did anyone ever do a law school gothic meme post? I was looking and couldn't find anything--I was hoping to find something to cheer up a friend and thought maybe you'd remember.

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ALEX!!! Omg I am so sorry I totally drafted this and meant to answer it and then totally forgot because I am THE WORST 😩 😩 😩

I’m not totally sure about a gothic meme post... BUT you should check the Real Lawblr tag, it’s where all the lawblr refuges who just wanted to cry into our wine and shit post fled to! And if you aren’t already you should follow @lawschoolruinedme and @12b6, they cheered me up on many a night where I was ~this close~ to loosing my shit. 

P.S. I also greatly enjoy that it’s your first year of law school but you are already salty and bitter about all the aesthetic study photo bs. Heheee you are going to be just fine!

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claudiagray

This is really the main thing you need to know about a house before you buy.

(Forgive me a moment of former-lawyer nerdity - there is in fact a famous NY court case, Stambovsky v. Ackley, in which the plaintiff bought a house and only later found out it was supposedly haunted. He then sued the former owner, wanting to undo the sale. You’d think the former owner could just go, “pffft, no, there’s no such things as ghosts,“ right? But no! They’d previously given newspaper interviews saying they believed in the ghost, which meant they were estopped from denying the ghost now, which meant — the judges declared, settling in for a long deliberation — the house was haunted as a matter of law. They let the plaintiff out of the sale. This is all 100% true.) 

JO!

I’ve reblogged this picture before but not with the story of the legally-haunted house attached to it…

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plenilune

okay, so not only is this way legit, but the court’s majority opinion was FULL OF GHOST PUNS, thus elevating this to the Greatest Thing Ever To Happen.

first of all can we deal with the greatest sentence ever written by any judge since the beginning of time:

“as a matter of law, the house is haunted”

and that is not even touching the puns

“no divination is required to conclude that it is defendant’s promotional efforts…which fostered the home’s reputation”

“plaintiff hasn’t a ghost of a chance”

“i am moved by the spirit of equity”

“applying caveat emptor to a contract involving a house…conjures up visions”

“lest the subject of the transaction come back to haunt him and his client”

“the notion…is a hobgoblin which should be exorcised from the body of legal precedent and laid quietly to rest”

and then this motherfucker quotes hamlet

“pity me not but lend thy serious hearing to what i shall unfold (william shakespeare, hamlet, act i, scene v [ghost])”

and ghostbusters

“a very practical problem arises with respect to the discovery of a paranormal phenomenon: ‘who you gonna call?’”

god bless that judge

god bless

I’m a big fan of “The parties are advised to chill” myself.

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hmsharmony

We read this case in first year Contracts and it took me three hours to get through it because I kept texting every single person I knew about the puns. Each time a new pun came up, I texted everyone. (I also called my parents with updates every ten minutes.)

It remains my all-time favorite case, with this Fifth Circuit opinion in play form coming in second.

My third favorite has got to be that time Elena Kagan sited Dr. Seuss in her dissenting opinion. 

As the plurality must acknowledge, the ordinary meaning of “tangible object” is “a discrete thing that possesses physical form.” A fish is, of course, a discrete thing that possesses physical form. See generally Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960).

Yates v. United States (574 U.S. ___ (2015))

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