Re: Great Moments In Attorney Advertising

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I wanna see the ad, dammit.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 2:30 PM
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I looked online, but couldn't find it. Blue water, shark-fins.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 2:39 PM
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They sound like the perfect outfit to help me set up my new, heavily leveraged corporation, defend me when the creditors come after me, etc.

But these blog comments could be incriminating if it goes to trial.


Posted by: marcus | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 2:51 PM
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OT, but work-related. My attempt to get another position in my company was rejected. There's another opening I may try for, but lateral moves probably look bad.

So, for now, the dread and anxious nausea will continue.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 3:32 PM
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Well, that stinks. But there are always other jobs somewhere out there, right? If I say it often enough, it will be true.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 3:36 PM
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Damn, bg, that's too bad.

Lateral moves don't necessarily look bad--no worse than staying in the same job, and you can say you wanted different experiences or whatever. Especially if you don't have to go through a big process to apply, and it's probably worth it to get out from under the crazy boss.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 5:00 PM
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Right, and to someone outside the organization looking at your resume, it's probably not unambiguous as to whether a move is truly lateral, or whether it's a promotion.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 5:08 PM
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Have you registered to work as a contract attorney with some agents, BG?


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 5:19 PM
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IDP, I'm not a lawyer, nor evena law school graduate. I've got a couple of courses I need to finish first. Like most of my life, it's complicated and messy.

Today, I'm not looking for solutions so much as sympathy.

The lateral move only looks bad insomuch as people know that I'm trying to flee S. To the extent that peopel know that S is really difficult, that's no problem. She's also documented stuff that makes me look less than fully competent.

Can't write coherent sentences right now.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 5:39 PM
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Sorry that your escape has been deferred, BG. I have had similarly nauseating work situations, and you certainly have my sympathy.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 5:46 PM
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BG has my sympathy. Sucky employers suck.


Posted by: Trevor | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 7:05 PM
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Not-so-great moments in attorney advertising. Also see here for a link roundup.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 7:10 PM
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Aah, the link in 12 goes to the comments. Just scroll up to see the post, with video.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 7:12 PM
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I smell a dance remix.


Posted by: Trevor | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 7:20 PM
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Bg, that totally stinks. My condolences.

Years ago, my mother tried to comfort me over a maddening job situation by saying "Just think of it as fodder for the book you'll write someday," which at the time was not comforting at all.

But these days I am privately gleeful every time I have a chance to handle a problem in the exact opposite way that that long-ago boss would have done.

No particular point there, just an affirmation that it's lousy to have a stressful situation, and even more lousy when cash-flow/health insurance issues mean that you feel stuck there.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 7:35 PM
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health insurance is a big part of it.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 8:48 PM
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Though WHole Foods doesn't cover mental health care at all, and really, everyone in retail needs mental health care; but it's not the hippy store that Bread and Circus was.

Liberals really shouldn't shop there, but especially not mental health professionals.

I have thought about writing a satirical novel.

The basic premise is a guy whose been leeching off of his mother for years, living in a beech house and taking trips to Tahiti, but suddenly penniless after her death and with no job skills...

Cue crazy Whole Foods.

I got an e-mail newsletter from the regional pres. praising the effort fo some guy who played baseball witha dislocated shoulder and saying that that was the sort of effort we should be putting in.

I just need a plot. If only I were Nancy Mitford.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 8:53 PM
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BG: See what they might have for you anyway. On the project I was working on recently, a number of people were employed who were classed as "paralegals," but were in fact people who'd not finished law school for some reason, or weren't prepared to take the bar. They could do all kinds of things "paralegals" seemed unable to do. Someone who's been through a year of law school and survived is much better at that bugaboo, "issue spotting" than most paralegals. Give somebody a call and ask.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 8:53 PM
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Liberals really shouldn't shop there

Ayup. They're not even unionized (nor, alas, is TJs--but at least at TJs the food's so cheap that you can kind of figure that one out on your own).


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 9:02 PM
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19: Trader Joe's treats its employees somewhat better. Part-timers (though most people are classified as part-time by their weird rules) can get health insurance. I think theirs is better than ours.

Starbucks's is from Aetna and pretty crappy.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 10:27 PM
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Huh. My insurance is from Aetna and it's awesome. That's kind of good to know about TJs, I guess. But still, blah.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 10:31 PM
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I wonder what insurance everyone has. I have Sout/hern Health, and they're all right. On top of the $20 co-pay, they end up charging me like an extra $3.52 every time I visit the doctor, but whatever. They cover most stuff. No idea about mental care.

De/lta Dental, on the other hand, seems to know that I would bite them and hard, were my teeth in better working order. Motherfuckers.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 10:40 PM
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Shit, I shouldn't shop at Whole Foods? Seriously? They're like the only high-end place in DC...although maybe I can find a Harris Teeter...

You know what supermarket chain is great, is Wegmans. They have all kind of employee benefits, or so I've heard, and a progressive philosophy. They're mostly in the Northeast right now, but I've heard they have expansion plans.

Sorry about the negative stuff to deal with, BG. This too shall pass, eventually.


Posted by: marcus | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 10:42 PM
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18: IDP, thanks for the suggestion. I should look into it. Part of the problem is that insurance gets to be an issue, if I'm in non full-time, permanent employment.

WF covers all of my crappy insurance premiums, and now that I've met my $550 drug deductible (separate from the $1100 medical deductible), it does cover 80% of the costs of my drugs, since one of those drugs costs $235 at retail (medco negotiates it down to $149), I'd be in trouble without it.

Massachusetts now requires that I have health insurance. Of course I could COBRA, and ordinarily it wouldn't be such a problem, since being a paralegal would pay enough more to cover the cost of the insurance, but having my taxable income go up a little bit as opposed to a lot is not great, because then I'd lose certain State hospital uncompensated care pool benefits that cover mental health.

A company with insurance from Harvard Pilgrim would be ideal for now. My next medical visit will actually be covered.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 10:43 PM
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ttaM's gonna hit that macro key again.

Our health system is abusive. It treats us; it doesn't treat us; it treats us if we figure out the magic phrase; it treats us if we scream and scream and scream; it kills us even though we scream; it kills us if we stay quiet and obedient.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 11:17 PM
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I have thought about writing a satirical novel.
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I just need a plot.

Surely the internets can help?

Boy meets girl. Who works at the store too, and wants to quit and be an X, but can't because without it she'd lose her mental health insurance. Drawn out of his adolescent narcissism by her charm, Boy learns valuable life lessons about love, friendship, and structural labor market inflexibility.

That's when the zombies attack.


Posted by: Trevor | Link to this comment | 08-26-07 11:56 PM
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A disquieting rejoinder to the old saw that sharks don't attack lawyers for reasons of professional courtesy.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 6:12 AM
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There's a firm here called Grisham and Lawless. They don't seem to advertise, but the office sign looks cool. I should take a picture.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 10:19 AM
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If you take a picture of that, I'll take a picture of the sign outside the Robert Downey Jr. law firm.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 10:22 AM
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Deal.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 10:50 AM
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There used to be a firm of solicitors in Sligo called Argue & Phibbs.


Posted by: emir | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 11:44 AM
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I had a cousin who used to work for a firm called Phelan and Costello. It doesn't look too bad, but said out loud it's a problem.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 11:53 AM
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I have a dear friend whose last name is Howe. He has a friend named Dewey. They've been looking for a Cheatem for some time.


Posted by: justjenny | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:06 PM
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Heh. I wonder if there are any other real names that would fit the pattern -- no one's named Screwem, but something like that.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:16 PM
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Fakim?


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:28 PM
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But I'd pronounce that Faw-KEEM.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:29 PM
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Butcher?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:29 PM
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DEWEY, RAPER AND HOWE


Posted by: OPINIONATED GRANDMA | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:33 PM
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As soon as you enter Indiana from Illinois, you start seeing signs for that Tom Raper guy's RV dealership, which is in Richmond, on the Ohio line, hundreds of miles away. My wife couldn't believe the guy just went with the name, instead of something else, but it doesn't seem to have hurt business any.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:40 PM
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Duper.

I have a friend, last name Talib, who pronounces it TAW lib. So maybe FAW kim is an alternative pronunciation.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:42 PM
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He must have known it would make his business more memorable. I mean, look at his slogan: "Where fun begins"


Posted by: destroyer | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:42 PM
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Talib and Fakim are from different patterns (taalib vs. fakiim); there might be a possible name faakim, but I've never heard of it.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:45 PM
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This gentleman would make a good partner.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 12:57 PM
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Alistair Billam is currently completing his PhD on the subject of Audience Appropriation.

I have this great picture of him sneaking onto the stage in a concert hall ten minutes before it's supposed to start, and announcing "Would everyone kindly come with me to the concert's newly announced alternative venue?"


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 1:00 PM
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Bet RFTS has heard of Audience Appropriation.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 1:06 PM
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"Audience Appropriation" is the new pretentious name for what used to be the Department of Pied Piping.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-27-07 1:09 PM
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