Whinging

And for once, it's not mine, it's someone else's! Well, okay, perhaps more accurately it's mine about someone else's.

I'm now approaching the end of my third year (!) of associate-hood. And while I can say that what I've learned in those three years has certainly helped me to be a better, more precise, more effective advocate, it has also led me to being a more impatient, some might say less empathetic person. But see, that's what happens when you read your forty-seven-hundreth Complaint in which the plaintiff seeks "one MEEELION dollars" for, essentially, being too stupid to look where they were going. At first, I had some sympathy for some of them -- the little old lady who slipped on her friend's allegedly overpolished linoleum, the 5-year-old girl who got smacked in the face by a bat swung by her 7-year-old friend. But then, I found out that the little old lady had simply not looked where she was going and instead had slipped in some (red) ketchup that had been spilled about four seconds before on the (white) floor, and that the kid who'd been batted in the face had been because she ran out to pull her friend's pants down into the middle of a softball game (okay, her, I still have some sympathy for because, let's face it, she's five). And the more of these I saw, the less patience I had with a plaintiff claiming that someone else owed them six figures or more because the plaintiff couldn't be bothered to look where he was going and believed that the entire world should be a big, white, fluffy cotton ball that will swaddle them regardless of their stupidity -- and if it's not yet, by god, they're going to sue until it is that way.

I think it's time to find another line of work.

Comments

[teahouseblossom]

See..it all goes back to what the law school profs said - it's all about the FACTS!

[Air Jordans]

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man’s own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.