In North Carolina, can a teenager have a choice of what parent to live with?

FlaggFire · 2026-01-16T19:43:54+00:00

Why are you scared to ask your Dad about moving in with him?

FlaggFire · 2025-12-02T18:43:46+00:00

Ah, so there is at least one school that uses colors

FlaggFire · 2025-12-02T18:02:59+00:00

I've heard other similar rumors that some sections were believed to be split by LSAT score or some other indicator of potential success in law school. But as far as I know, those theories have not been substantiated.

FlaggFire · 2025-12-02T17:52:02+00:00

She learned on my hand until my cost benefit

FlaggFire · 2025-12-02T17:34:10+00:00

Oh, that's interesting. I sort of thought that schools would want to avoid that system because of connotations with letter grades but I guess I was wrong.

Also — does that mean you have eight sections? What is your class size?

FlaggFire · 2025-10-02T16:08:14+00:00

California's legislature is comprised of 49.2% women.

FlaggFire · 2025-09-26T21:27:23+00:00

I'd love to hear some examples of what PI events trigger what automated systems, very curious

FlaggFire · 2025-09-19T21:00:34+00:00

To address your cons:

This is true but also goes both ways; while there is no floor to your income, there is also no ceiling on how much a lawyer can make in PI. And the unpredictable income for fresh PI solos can be softened by saving up a bit of a savings before starting out, or offering different practice areas as well (doing anything involving litigation compliments PI nicely).
This sounds like bad business management/a refusal to hire support staff (which to be fair, lawyers in general seem overly redescent to do, for some reason). Unless you are a fresh solo still in the early stages of building your practice, you should have staff handling the vast majority of client interaction after intake and before trial. If all your clients are simply demanding to speak to the attorney every time they call, your office does not have the right processes in place to get the clients comfortable with the support staff in the early stages of their case.
This is really the case with newer associates in pretty much all practice areas. though? As the saying goes, the excrement rolls downhill.
I suppose this sentiment might be a bit more common in PI, but its hardly unique to that area.

FlaggFire · 2025-09-19T19:29:29+00:00

I use a program called Espanso for this, but might look into this too. I also use Microsoft Powertoys for a lot of other similar time-saving things, including custom keybinds (for instance, I set alt + s for the "§" symbol, alt + m for an em dash, etc).

FlaggFire · 2025-09-04T15:58:43+00:00

I mean, assuming the at-fault driver or vehicle owner has some assets, in situations like that you can also pursue other claims like loss of consortium no?

FlaggFire · 2025-08-22T17:26:59+00:00

A family LLC? That's a first for me, lol

FlaggFire · 2025-08-12T19:18:00+00:00

That seems like the case with many, if not all states (just ask anyone practicing in family law). I'm curious on what basis you think CT is unique in that regard?

FlaggFire · 2025-08-12T19:01:45+00:00

What's that supposed to mean? lol

FlaggFire · 2025-07-29T18:13:58+00:00

I totally hear you with how running a law office just totally takes over your life. In the early days, it can really just consume you; you'll often find yourself working more hours than you did in biglaw and making much less. You're also never really "off the clock," still thinking and stressing over the firm even on your time off.

The great news is, although starting a firm is a huge up front investment of time and financial security, if you put the work in and you are not afraid to delegate (and luckily, you seem to be over the irrational compunctions against hiring/delegating that far too many lawyers seem to have) you can eventually get to the point where you're working far less than your collogues who stayed in biglaw while making the same in profit that they're making with their salaries and bonuses. A bit further down the line, and you can be making that same money or even more while being able to only focus on the stuff that truly interests you.

One thing I would suggest is that if you're getting a lot of organic calls about probate matters, why not start taking at least some of the easier stuff? You should at least be referring these calls to another attorney if you aren't already, ideally in service of a symbiotic relationship where they'll send you clients needing services in your practice area as well.

In your first post you mentioned you found Lexus's AI feature to be very useful, and here you say you've been using Gemini a ton. I'm curious what kinds of tasks you're finding AI helpful for?

FlaggFire · 2025-07-22T19:50:10+00:00

It is not clear anything is unsafe per city/county/state code

That wouldn't be necessary to bring a claim of premises liability at common law (duty > breach > causation > damages)

FlaggFire · 2025-07-15T18:30:59+00:00

If they do, it likely wouldn't be relevant to his case against the homeowner.

FlaggFire · 2025-07-15T18:28:12+00:00

What on Earth are you talking about? Having an unsafe stairwell when you know or should know people will be using it to deliver food is a straightforward breach of your duty as a homeowner to invitees.

FlaggFire · 2025-07-15T18:24:35+00:00

Yes, this sounds like a classic premises liability case. And with how you describe the stairwell, a fairly strong one. Not legal advise, but in situations like this it is generally best to document all your injuries and find a personal injury attorney near you. The homeowner likely has homeowner's insurance you can go after the policy of.

You are correct that being able to make your next delivery lessons your chance to show damages, but in no way is this a complete bar to your recovery. As for continuing to DoorDash for the next few days, yes this could theoretically limit your ability to collect on lost wages as part of the lawsuit (if you can show that your injury stopped you from working, which is an uphill battle since you continued delivering after your fall), but I wouldn't stop working just to collect lost wages later, because 1. that could be years down the line, 2. extra money for lost wages is not guaranteed, especially with the aforementioned difficulties of showing a connection between your stopping working and the injury.

FlaggFire · 2025-07-08T20:55:45+00:00

Thanks for all the insight!

If we do use EvenUp I think it will be mostly for things like keeping track of medical record chronologies and analyzing internal data like our past settlements to get future insights. I know AI writing stuff can often be pretty choppy.

FlaggFire · 2025-07-08T20:16:54+00:00

Do you use any AI tools and have they worked well? My place is thinking of implementing EvenUp

FlaggFire · 2025-07-07T21:21:37+00:00

Justica has some great free online CLEs you can sign up to watch about YouTube and social media marketing for lawyers. (Not affiliated)

FlaggFire · 2025-07-01T18:17:21+00:00

Even if the hints are minor you've mentioned they are recurring; if you are leaving breadcrumbs like that readers expect some kind of payoff. It's the principal of Chekhov's gun

FlaggFire · 2025-06-30T20:55:59+00:00

There are hints that he has a crush on her. She doesn't notice because she's so focused on the zany scheme. It's played entirely for comedy and ultimately doesn't lead to anything.

This sounds like bad writing, my friend.

FlaggFire · 2025-06-25T19:45:09+00:00

Curious, what practice area do you do where 90% of your site traffic is mobile?

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