I can understand how it would be horrible if the judge was a good judge. Our firm is friends with a number of judges. But that was not the case for this judge, and keep in mind, a bad judge is potentially putting away lots of innocent people so a bad judge is doing REAL HARM as well. I feel like you don’t believe how…

At no point did I say this judge deserved a death threat. Like I said before, this judge has been documented many times in our state to have many counts of judicial misconduct but is pretty much impossible to remove or discipline/sanctions due to our fucked up system. The part of the story about the hit showed the…

Yay elected positions....

I remember we once missed a dismissal hearing and the case got dismissed, but our law office NEVER got the Notice of Hearing (only snail-mailed once from the court, via normal USPS mail so no tracking/proof. Sometimes that mailing is the only notice you ever get, so you’re SOL if you don’t get it). We were able to get…

Nope - I’m saying that he was known to be such a bad judge that someone felt compelled to take a hit out on him

I think also I was very idealistic (college) and believed that the law and courts should be used as a shield for the defenseless, etc. and this was the first time it had been so blatantly verbalized to me that no, they don’t care. The law may be there to protect you, but you’re fucked if the courts don’t enforce it or…

The actual outcome wasn’t THAT bad in the scheme of things, but I had a judge (JP Court, where you don’t need any experience or knowledge of law itself because it’s an elected position in my state, of course) basically tell me that it was not the job of the Court to protect or educate its citizens about the law (I had…

Hilariously (or not), now that I think about it, we have been on the other side of this (our client v. Dept. of Labor) on a payroll violation issue. The whole process was fairly quick (for a law thing!) and we settled our end relatively easily. However, client backed out of signed settlement so then we withdrew so I’m…

Everyone comes out looking horrible:

Usually I do curl lashes >> false eyelashes >> then mascara to blend real and falsies together to make them look more “like one” (trick I picked up from a MUA). Yours look great your way, but if anyone else in the comments ever feels like the two don’t “go together”, mascara-ing afterwards works (but you will probably…

So...is white boys beating the shit out of themselves a thing? One of my exes did that and I was like...WTF ARE YOU DOING...but I thought it was just...my ex being weird. He was not bipolar and we were not in any sort of situation this fucked at ALL.

Police officer is clearly on some WTF-levels here, but I’m also kinda pissed at the teacher. The only other adult in the room, and he’s just quietly watching without any sort of “hey bro, what the FUCK are you doing?” response (not strictly said like that, of course)?

so let’s just all be glad that it wasn’t Oregon that got that tea shipment back in 1773.

When I used to work at the central library in Los Angeles, one day I was in the elevator with my boss and he goes “Do you smell that?” It was this sharp, very singular smell that I had smelled, I would say, 60% of the time I used that elevator. “Yes,” I say. “It’s a dead rat in the elevator ducts,” he replies.

It's really lovely - it smells just like fresh whipping cream with a hint of sweetness - kinda vanilla-y, but not really

Have you tried Fresh’s Fresh Cream? Also, my fall/winter lineups includes Issey Miyake’s L’eau d’issey (for some reason, I smell a strong honey/nectar undertone that I LOVE) and for some reason I recently went crazy with Miss Dior’s Cherie.

Yeah I know it’s illegal for family law (but that doesn’t mean there aren’t lawyers that will do it - usually if the OP spouse is loaded). Our roofing cases are contingency, but I think we’re trying to move away from doing as many of those.

I was just wondering because I also work in a law office (but we also do not do labor law), and a lot of the time people call in and probably have a case, but 1. they have no money for a retainer 2. depending on who they sue, the chances for collecting may be very slim, so we end up turning them away.

Off the top of my head - neither Schwab or ING Direct/now Capital One 360 charge a monthly minimum fee. On top of that, ING/Capital One also doesn’t charge an overdraft fee (it’s basically an interest rate that accrues on the amount you “borrowed” depending on how long it takes to pay back. If you pay it back in less…

Is there any chance of employees ever collecting that if they do not have the resources to hire an attorney? Do labor law attorneys work on contingency?