He’s from CA and went to college in CA...at Stanford. So, yeah, I’m going to agree he’s probably got the tax rates figured out.

My dad on a high school neighbor of his: “He’s got an arsenal buried in the back yard for the race war, but he’s too fat to go dig it up anymore.”

*slow clap*

Having grown up in one of these areas among these people...yes. My hometown has enough weaponry to arm a battalion and enough brainpower to annual shoot each other in drunken hunting accidents.

The N gas is well known and available. The methods and the procedures are what that AFPD is questioning. Will it be a person alone in a room? Strapped or unrestrained? How big a room? Or use the IV setup but with a gas mask? Restrained? Do they sedate to prevent breath holding?

I saw a trailer recently and have penciled this in for the moment it hits Netflix.

And in a modern spin, I’m waiting for the finale of Hawaii 5-0 where Steve learns the team’s Constitutional violations and subsequent lawsuits have bankrupted Hawaii and the state is being sold at auction.

So...like a Rocketeer League. I like this spinoff potential.

I make questionable decisions at a fraction of the price.

If I were a GM, I think I’d trade the 1 pick, or the player after he’s proven himself. You’re never going to win a cup with just McDavid or just Eichel, but you could be a middle of the table playoff team with the five journeymen you’d get in trade.

Very similar rationale. And a good idea.

75% of my referrals when starting in private practice were clients of other attorneys who had made an ungodly mess ignoring their friend-lawyer, who didn’t have the time, energy or patience to fix it.

Corollary: Even if you’re smarter than your attorney, and know the law better, the attorney has the license to practice law. So let the attorney practice or find a new one.

Don’t have your scales and glassine baggies on the table when they come in, though.

I wish more laypeople had any understanding of how the system works. Every few months it seems like I’m wading into explaining “why guilty people plead not guilty at arraignment” or some other basic facet of the system.

As long as it isn’t a moral judgment on my practice, I’m really okay with it. I defended some real scumbags, but the overarching point for me was the moral and ethical value of having a legal system where everyone gets a (theoretical) chance to be proven guilty.

A lawyer-friend has a sister that did that. Final bill on the construction litigation ended up being $65,000, even with a free lawyer, because (surprise!) the contract was valid and upheld.

I would look for this book. I remember trying to read “1L” and devouring “Law School Confidential” before heading in and would have loved a real life picture. I have a frequent snit with my alma mater about their focus on a narrow band of alums versus the, basically, plumbers of the legal profession* that are 90% of…

I would have liked to have been a solicitor and just handed the barrister-level off to people that want that sort of work.

Our local public defender is on quite a win streak following this advice. As a marginally-practicing mostly-former attorney I find it interesting to watch.