So you wanna be a defense attorney?

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo) 06/04/2019 at 14:58 • Filed to: None

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You think this job is all Sunchasers, Torties, and Shepherds? Think again, friends. Today was one of those days where I took a beating in court. Sometimes, that is the job.

The judge is happy to violate my client’s due process rights because they have been accused of not paying farmworkers all of their wages. She doesn’t care that we denied it. All of the case law was in our favor - we were right. I was on, and made a really good argument. But I still lost. You see, in this job, being right is not enough. We need to appeal and fight, and sometimes you have to lose first.

I learned it from labor relations. Every union dispute always looks awful before it turns, and you always lose before you win. In the Gerawan case against the UFW, we fought for five years to count the workers’ ballots - and ultimately prevailed because we were right. But man, we took a beating along the way, losing the longest trial in the history of the ALRB before we won.

Honestly, I am not sure you are doing this job until you are backed into a corner and need to fight your way out.  Losing the ones where you are right is where it all begins.

Svend > ImmoralMinority 06/04/2019 at 15:10

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Spend some time with Toby and a mocktail and regroup. 

Law is one of those things I never want to get into.

Even when your right, you’ve got to convince others that your not only right but the others are wrong and that they didn’t do it out of mistake but deliberate, didn’t do it out of ill mental health but of sound mind, etc...

One of those professions your damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ImmoralMinority 06/04/2019 at 15:18

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i dont wanna be a defense attorny..... i fucking hate paperwork

sooo... now i just gotta get a job that pays me well enough for sunchasers torties and sheppards... and a pool

doable with my skill set

i may need a defense attorny sooner or later tho

Chariotoflove > ImmoralMinority 06/04/2019 at 15:19

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Objectively, I always had the impression that the system is built with incentive for the lower court to get it right because the judge usually wants to rise to a higher court, and it doesn’t look good to have your decisions reversed a lot on appeal. I’ve heard enough stories to suggest that reality doesn’t really work that way.

Good luck fighting the good fight.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 06/04/2019 at 15:25

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Did you say Torta?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 06/04/2019 at 15:27

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i dont think i did?

but that looks tasty... now im hungry

Sovande > ImmoralMinority 06/04/2019 at 16:10

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I have no interest in being a defense attorney. 

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > ImmoralMinority 06/04/2019 at 18:53

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I’ve been losing [anyway] and clawing back all my life, so I feel you here. That being said, this is clearly tense and stressful as fuck.

Josh - the lost soldier > ImmoralMinority 06/04/2019 at 22:34

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Yeah... I’ll stick with engineering. Less thorny that way.