Legal scraps and snips

None of these are enough for their own post, but together they constitute the random shit a lawyer thinks about in a day...or not.

* Bet you thought I'd have blogged by now about that guy who sued God, huh? What a complete idiot. Proving a point about frivolous lawsuits by filing one of your own might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

* So does everyone who went through the traditional big firm fall recruiting process think this is as bad of an idea as I do? If I'm deciding what firm I want to work for over the summer after my 2L year, I'm thinking that a weekend getaway in the wilderness sounds like a potentially scary waste of time. But hey, if a firm wants to waste that much time and money on recruiting a bunch of law students who don't know shit yet and may not even come work there, more power to them. I understand to some extent a summer associate retreat, but this is for people who just have callbacks in the race to be summer associates. Way to blow your wad early, guys!

* And on the creepy side of things, I just love how the AUSA (from Florida, of course...they need to change their state motto to "We Bring the Crazy!") assures the woman who he thinks is loaning him her 5 year old daughter for sex that he'll be "gentle and loving" and not at all physically, let alone psychologically, injurious to the small child he is seeking to rape. Way to go DOJ, you fire the people with some remaining principles, but are always sure to keep the perverts and pedos! I guess at this point I should just be glad he probably has a law degree.

* In yet more crazy Florida, now with more Gator assholishness, some guy got tasered blah blah. I find it hard to muster much caring or righteous indignation in either direction, but I do think the tasering seemed unnecessary to secure or restrain the guy, from my view of the video. I mean how many idiot Gator cops does it take to restrain one unruly college student the old-fashioned way? It is almost a little amusing though to hear the guy say "don't taser me, bro!" just before the zapping and the wailing.

Meanwhile, what I really want to know is: how much does Greg Palast love everyone who watches this video hearing him called the best investigative journalist in America? And was there ever really any doubt that Kerry had read (probably repeatedly) a book that claimed he actually won in 2004?

* Today marks a new first. Last night into the wee hours I redlined the ever-loving crap out of a document drafted by a client. I have a tendency to edit mercilessly anything that I am given to review, even if not asked to actually make sure that there is no passive voice and that abundance sounds better than plethora. I probably should have warned this person in advance, or used some sort of discretion in whether I wanted to piss off a client by giving them something bathed in red, but I didn't. And I got a phone call thanking me effusively for not being afraid to do just that and for making it read so much better, etc. etc. I never thought I'd see the day when I was thanked for grammatically eviscerating someone, but it appears he liked it.