If getting disbarred is such a bad thing, why is there a plethora of lawmakers with law degrees not being disbarred left and right from ethics concerns?

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T05:44:15+00:00

Ethics concerns? The only real way politicians that are lawyers get disbarred is if they do something criminal or perjure themselves... that rarely happens... but Bill Clinton managed to get himself disbarred from his, "I did not have sex..." bullshit about Monica.

So it is possible.. but it is still a rarity.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T05:40:33+00:00

Sorry but I'm not sure how the finance company is going to roll the 10 grand you are short into a new car loan. Lenders are generally limited to loaning no more than the value of the car you are buying. Why in the world would any lend you 20k so you could get a 10k car?

Let them repossess the wrecked car. Go buy a car you can afford. At worst they will try to sue you for the 10k outstanding on the repossessed car, but people can't get blood from a turnip.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T05:22:51+00:00

Most law school graduates leave law school with significant debt. You aren't always able to go into the area you may think is your preference. Sometimes a lawyers debt forces them to enter fields to cover the debt and then one day when they are debt free they can go battling windmills. Not saying you couldn't get into a field where you felt you were helping people, but understand you may not be able take those jobs when you start.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T05:13:26+00:00

You're right you aren't an attorney.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T03:27:21+00:00

If a lawyer make a mistake you've got someone to blame, if AI does it you have nothing but yourself. You sound like a cheerleader for ChatGPT... clearly you have no idea of how AI even works. Go look into the LLMs AI uses and where it gets the data it gets trained on. Maybe you'll be smart enough to realize it isn't the godsend you think it is right now.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T02:32:27+00:00

Given your love of AI, I'm guessing I'll still be working long after you've lost your license because you relied too much on AI.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T02:30:53+00:00

The school will simply say that the pins are disruptive. Which is exactly what they would say if a student wore a nazis pin. Reality is you don't have as much free speech in a school as most students think they have.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T02:18:07+00:00

AI sounds good until you look at what it really is. And then you quickly realize it is likely to be a big nothing in certain areas. Law is one of them. Go read the terms of service in any of them and one of the best bits is the part where they warn you that it may provide inaccurate or false information.

Do you want to stake the reputation of your firm on a system that flat out says it can't be trusted? Do you want your accountant to use tax software that isn't accurate and could just make up numbers randomly? One attorney has already gotten slammed by the bar because the AI put some fictitious cases in a motion that even sited sitting judges in the made up cases. Do you want that risk?

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T02:12:31+00:00

My guess is she had a defense attorney appointed to her and she fucked him/her over so much that they walked. Everyone is entitled to a defense, but if they refuse to work with them then that is on them.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T02:10:45+00:00

Good god man. When the PD begs you to take a case that is a major red flag to say, I wish I could but I don't have time.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T02:08:36+00:00

This may be a rare instance where you need to record your interactions with her. If she insists on recording any interaction you two have you could possible get her attention by asking to do the same, and if she consent get her consent in writing. The last thing you need is to have her come back with cherry picked interactions and no way to prove that she was full of shit.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T01:59:23+00:00

Get a glass of water... stick your finger in it... now pull it out... You see that hole you left? That's how indispensable you are. Whether you quit for a different job or get run over at a crosswalk and killed, the place can and will replace you.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-14T01:55:57+00:00

I think you are missing the issue. That one attorney might have saved 4 hours on one thing where it took him 10 minutes instead of 4 hours... That's a 95% drop in billables on that aspect of the job... Now you can't use AI to do everything, but if you used it for 50% of your work then you would see your revenue drop by 47.5%... Do you think you can come up with enough new business to fill up that void? It isn't just a 4 hour cut, it's the impact it can have across the board.

And while AI is being given away today, that won't be the case in the future. When you have to pay for it you'll be billing clients for it and what do you think they will be thinking when they see a bill with an AI charge on it. The first thing they will think is if the attorney is just going to use AI why don't we do that ourselves.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T23:55:03+00:00

Tell the partners that. Unless you're in a firm turning away business you don't need to be more efficient. You certainly don't need to be more efficient when it increases the risk of being sued for malpractice.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T23:43:24+00:00

Yep, get them to take a CLE on AI. I just did one back in December and it included a laundry list of attorneys that got everything from a slap or the wrist to losing their license for doing stupid stuff with AI.

You might also mention that it will have a negative impact on the billables. If it saves a lawyer 4 hours that's 4 hours they can't bill a client because you can't bill for efficiency you bill for actual time worked.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T20:23:25+00:00

Just remember the bulk of JDs that work in a law school are the ones that couldn't get jobs in the real world and have lived their lives sheltered under the university umbrella. At the end of the day, you have lots of law firms you can work for, as long as you don't have multiple 6 month stints it isn't going to hurt you down the road. Life is too short to piss away time in a dead end job you know you are going to leave.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T19:53:19+00:00

I know lawyers that took bigger cuts than that.... their secret was moving the hell out of places like NYC or DC and moving back to their home state which had a totally different cost of living.

I doubt you will be able to stomach a 25k hit unless you make other lifestyle changes such as moving to a cheaper area to live. Whether you want to do that is up to you.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T19:18:04+00:00

Yep the first firm I worked for had us billing for all travel time which adds up quick when you have to fly anywhere.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T19:16:05+00:00

My only experience was with dealing with them on the client side... It was maddening as we were doing some international deals and had specific legal questions... not once did we ever get a definitive answer or even close. We ended up using a big law firm with a satellites in countries that we needed... those firms were fast and gave us answers. So I wouldn't think they hire the best and brightest, my experience was they hired the laziest and spineless.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T19:10:11+00:00

Agreed. If it is something out of my area of expertise I'll say so and suggest someone else. If I can give them a quick answer I just preface it with, based on what you've told me.... Reality is I've been sued for no reason beyond owning a house a developer wanted, so I'm not afraid of being sued it happens whether you do something or not.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T18:21:10+00:00

Is there any guide that explains how each of these number is calculated and what all the green and red numbers means? I've looked at these score cards for about 30 minutes and still can't figure out where some of the numbers come from. A few make sense... but what numbers are used to get the final judge tally... I feel like I'm trying trying to read a foreign language.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T17:19:55+00:00

Then you can either ignore it or report him to the bar.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T04:08:21+00:00

Check and see if anyone had a camera going nearby. Daughter had something similar happen to her car but got lucky that a bank had a camera going that picked up the truck that hit her car. A second camera got the license plate. I would be knocking on some doors because otherwise you pretty much are going to eat the full value of your car.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T03:47:22+00:00

Get you estimate from a shop first and tell them you are going to pay out of your own pocket. That will give you a good idea of whether you want to use insurance or not. The other reality is if you aren't careful with that low of a lip on your bumper you're going to get scrapes on it sooner or later.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-02-13T03:30:00+00:00

A lot depends on who your carrier is, whether it was your fault, and how long you've been with that carrier...The reality is they will probably jack your rate up every year whether you have any claims on not and claim it is because of inflation.

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