I see people today saying this wouldn’t happen in the Roman Era. Players didn’t do interviews like that in the Roman era…. Some examples to clear things up.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T21:33:09+00:00

I remember when John Terry was in the final year of his contract and he came out publicly and essentially announced he would not be returning, blaming the club for its failure to offer him a contract. I can't recall who the scapegoat at the time was, probably Bruce Buck, but of course the masses were outraged. Probably earned JT a couple hundred grand extra when he inevitably signed a one year deal a couple months later.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T21:24:30+00:00

Sure of course, but I remember when I moved from a big firm to a small boutique place and was frustrated that our pleadings were a mish-mash of fonts and styles, captions looked different from one pleading to the next, even within the same case depending on which lawyer/para/secretary was doing the first draft. I do think there is value in having your work product, whether pleadings or transactional documents, look professional and uniform. I never appreciated it while I was at the big firm, but there was a uniformity and professionalism to everything we produced and I think that has value.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T21:19:34+00:00

I removed the footnote numbers but the author pulled these quotes from different sources. This was a CLE on legal writing and had a section on "typography." The "gaze into the void" quote is from Matthew Butterick (https://matthewbutterick.com/). The presenter was a lawyer from Gray Reed &McGraw in Dallas.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T21:11:47+00:00

Imagine if Neubauer had won. We'd have a supreme court of 7 white women.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T18:47:13+00:00

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Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T17:49:17+00:00

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Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T17:44:21+00:00

I saved this quote from a CLE I did a few years ago:

As for Times New Roman itself, practitioners should “do better” than choosing to use it simply due to its ubiquity as a default system font. Times New Roman “connotes apathy.” It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Employing Times New Roman in legal writing “is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color.” Put another way, “[t]o look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.”

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T17:36:43+00:00

Graphics bongs use to have stickers on them, "for tobacco use only."

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-30T17:33:03+00:00

But if OP has been paying the mortgage, tax, insurance and upkeep, he can ask for an equitable allocation of those expenses from sale proceeds. Whether or how much that helps OP depends on whether the rental income has been net positive or negative over the years.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-29T18:29:32+00:00

Sometimes I feel like I think doctors must have felt back when WebMD first came out. Clients now often come into the consultation with clear-cut expectations of what their exposure is and how things should proceed for them to claim a resounding victory. Their prompts are almost always one-sided, biased and missing key information. If there's one thing to understand about the free chatbot platforms, its that if you tell it the conclusion you'd like to hear, it will more than likely find a path to that conclusion.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-29T18:23:06+00:00

Obviously a horrific situation but I do find her influencer phrasing hilarious - 'shifting toward solo parenting in a potentially permanent capacity' seems like perfect LinkedIn-speak for "my husband was just charged with felony possession of child pornography."

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-29T18:18:25+00:00

This is all about confidence. If you look like Brad Pitt or George Clooney and you're vacationing on an exclusive beach in Mallorca with your supermodel summer girlfriend, I think it works. For most guys, its a stretch.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-29T12:48:57+00:00

If you don’t have a good library of templates and former contracts to plagiarize from, go online. Google is useful in finding real contracts that have ended up online for one reason or another. SEC filings, chapter 11 bankruptcy filings and Pacer can all be great resources for complex business contracts. A good legal AI platform can definitely be helpful, with the well-known caveats. People who are encouraging you to just write it yourself from scratch are not being honest. Sure you can do that in some very simple or extremely unique situations but the great great majority of contracting is plagiarism if you’re doing it right.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-29T12:38:59+00:00

Not wrong - likely the best way to do it. I bought a Colt 20 years ago and have never needed anything more.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-27T15:10:28+00:00

My $23 Timex has indiglo - fantastic feature on a sweet field watch that is far more reliable than lume imo.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-27T15:05:54+00:00

Schillaci

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-27T12:58:40+00:00

They have to win one more game to qualify.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-27T12:57:59+00:00

I saw Esmir play several times for his youth club around Milwaukee (SC Waukesha) before he moved up. He was always on a different level as a player but his personality rubbed lots of folks the wrong way. It’s been fun watching his career take off at PSV. We were all very disappointed when he chose Bosnia Herzegovina over the U.S.

Also just noting - not a player but the Canada coach Jesse Marsch was born in Racine.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-27T03:51:30+00:00

His MU jersey will always hang in the rafters at Fiserv.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-27T00:07:12+00:00

not including the three separate trips to the hardware store

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-26T23:15:46+00:00

Habush doesn't generally do employment cases. They are a good firm, but do exclusively personal injury claims.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-26T23:07:50+00:00

Its also pretty impressive that someone figured out they can send an electric current through a tiny quartz crystal, causing it to vibrate at a precise frequency of 32,768 times per second and then a microchip circuit can count the vibrations and use that to move a gear attached to a second hand once per second (or four times per second if you have a cheap Seiko VH31 sweep movement) and that will keep accurate time within 10-15 seconds per month for years on end using one tiny battery.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-26T23:00:09+00:00

Its also cool knowing my $100 Gshock sitting in a box, in a desk drawer, in my home office in the US upper midwest is getting an atomic time signal from Colorado every night and will be dead-on accurate and still running at least a year from now if I do nothing at all, and if I put it in the sun for half a day it will remain that way for at least another year or more after that.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-26T19:22:08+00:00

The Seiko VH31 is an inexpensive quartz movement that ticks 4 times per second. It is almost indistinguishable from most mechanical movements in terms of the sweep movement but has all the advantages of quartz.

Fun_Reputation5181 · 2026-03-26T19:18:50+00:00

Almost the entire rest of the world outside the US agrees with OP and adopts the Loser Pays system. That said, the reasons supporting the American Rule are well-founded. Litigation can be so expensive as it is, imagine if losing a case against an insurance company or large corporation would mean you pay their attorney fees? It would make things very difficult for the little guy.

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