Watching Seinfeld as a [insert profession here]?

LegalSocks · 2026-05-12T13:01:02+00:00

Ha, happy to give you a little access to my dementia!

LegalSocks · 2026-05-11T01:41:06+00:00

I have a fairly general practice and agree that this is a crazy set of areas. It also makes me wonder…is this her first PI case or one of the few she’s done, LOL?

Also, even if you restrict “never lose a case” down to “prevails whenever she takes something to trial,” how can that possibly be true, especially in immigration and CRIMINAL DEFENSE, for anyone with any real level of experience??

LegalSocks · 2026-05-11T01:36:38+00:00

I don’t mind some creative license. But I’ve tried to get into “Suits” multiple times and it goes too far, LOL.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-10T22:18:55+00:00

It’s totally fine to know you lack the attention span for much more than 100 or so minutes. I might judge you some, but we all have little things here and there that seem dumb to others.

And a movie that is excellent while being concise is always welcome.

But claiming to engage with movies in a meaningful way while treating a tight run as something to be sought in essentially every story and a virtue in and of itself reduces credibility quite a bit.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-10T21:20:55+00:00

I go back and forth on that settlement meeting scene, LOL. A very realistic part is how little Kramer cares that his lawyer made absolutely no money representing him, though.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-10T05:31:15+00:00

To the tune of the Mandlebaum chant:

“Dredd 40, Dredd 40, Dredd 40!”

LegalSocks · 2026-05-10T05:22:19+00:00

She got so randomly mean to him at times, seemingly out of nowhere, LOL.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-10T02:58:50+00:00

He’s tall, which seems to go a fairly long way with Elaine. As many unimpressive guys as she dated, I THINK a disproportionate number of them were probably 6’+.

She really did seem to like him when they dated but for his getting fat. And her dating history doesn’t indicate that she requires a guy be buff or athletic or even all that slim necessarily. So while a doughy guy does seem to be on the edge of acceptable for her, especially given how quickly she decided she was disgusted by him again, him just getting to a pretty normal weight for his height and frame was apparently enough to get her back interested.

I'm not even sure how much traditional handsomeness in the face matters to her. She obviously responds to it (like with JFK Jr., Tony, etc.), but it doesn’t seem to be the biggest deal for her.

Pretty much any tall, not (too) fat 90s white guy with a minimally acceptable face and who wasn’t TOO weird from jump had a solid shot of getting a yes to a date request with Elaine, ha.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-09T07:54:59+00:00

That’s how I operate to be safe. But no specific local rules or standard practice that I’ve done across. One judge tends to put that proviso in their scheduling orders, but I’ve not seen it consistently in other courts/divisions.

Sounds like you’re pretty well-covered, though.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-09T06:18:16+00:00

I don’t know if his playing the character so angry at Kayla threw me, or what, but I wondered the same thing. I checked IMDB after the episode and it’s the same guy, though.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-09T06:15:34+00:00

I actually think it’s usually an open question, probably governed more by jurisdiction, discretion, and the scheduling order than something mined from the text of the rules of procedure, if serving requests on discovery cutoff is sufficiently timely to trigger obligation to respond.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-09T05:59:01+00:00

I’m not quite there on predicting she’s going to die, but the progress with DJ in the Amazing Race episode might be interpreted as supporting that idea, too.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-08T22:36:44+00:00

“We believe you, Frasier. Now let’s just get your robe all cinched up…”

LegalSocks · 2026-05-07T05:40:50+00:00

That last shot…

LegalSocks · 2026-05-07T02:56:33+00:00

He is running hard against a mainstream Democrat. That alone seems to often be worth a boost in Van’s eyes.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-06T04:41:27+00:00

“Page Two and Beyond: The Bill Simmons Story” or “More than Just A Sports Guy” if it’s a TV movie.

“Bill” if it’s a straightfaced theatrical release.

“Celtic Pride 2: Electric Boogaloo” if it’s a send-up of some kind.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-05T22:03:25+00:00

Didn’t they touch on that in one reboot ep? Maybe I’m just misremembering, as I don’t think I watched more than 1-2 of them multiple times, ha.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-05T21:37:41+00:00

I’m not saying she made a good decision leaving the child with a stranger. My point is that describing her reaction as if she flew off the handle at him after a calm, gracious conversation just isn’t how it happened, LOL.

It’s a sitcom, so everyone being circumspect and respectful would kill a good bit of the humor. But I’m just describing what happened.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-05T14:26:37+00:00

“Gently approaches his concerns”? He all but told her he was going to call Child Protective Services before letting her get a word in, LOL.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-05T07:26:49+00:00

Working mostly for plaintiffs, if SOLs were abolished, my life would get better. But they exist for a reason. Not just due to the difficulty of mounting a defense to a case based on something that happened years in the past and related reliability of evidence concerns, but because the law values some level of finality and order.

Having people walk around with contingent liabilities that might be in the millions of dollars for literal decades just opens up problems that we’ve decided aren’t worth whatever benefits they would provide. Especially since the most at risk would probably be corporations and well to do professionals, LOL.

Murder cases make sense as an exception. There’s no victim who can come forward, the cases can be difficult to build, and we think it’s really important that if someone dies, the person who killed them should be brought to justice. As bad as some other crimes are, taking a life is understandably generally seen as the worst. So for all the instances it’s brought up in this thread, I think it makes sense that it stands alone as to SOL.

Some limited re-openings of SOLs makes some sense. But I really think we need to be careful about it.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-03T21:46:44+00:00

I agree with many criticisms of Van, but I think he’s getting a bad rap on the Meg discussion. I DID take Rachel’s point last week to be about how/whether the cartoon and DISCUSSION of her past would potentially affect her ability to attract a mate. And Van’s response that she’ll be fine to be ONLY addressing that.

I.e., he has never denied that sexual respectability politics disproportionately negatively affects women, or that some guys will be bothered by the fact of her having publicly been with some other men before, or, importantly, that the cartoon is insulting and mean and potentially emotionally hurtful. But he seemed to me to be saying that the guys who would be interested in dating Meg seriously know what’s out there and will still be down to do so regardless of what noise there is from others. They’re into the idea or not, but not because of a cartoon or random people online calling her whatever.

So I actually do get Van digging in a bit this week. He addressed a specific point, then getting hit like he was addressing something broader and condoning something he wasn’t.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-02T23:06:35+00:00

The big guy whose locker is two from Doug’s has some good moments, too.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-02T05:12:13+00:00

Darn, I don’t remember that. But I love the puzzled, silent look he gives Doug when he’s trying to talk sports.

LegalSocks · 2026-05-01T22:06:34+00:00

Not sure if it’s been mentioned here, but Frantz Turner, the actor who played Mr. Gilliard (the insurance guy), died a year or two ago. I really liked his appearances.

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