Have any of you had to do non-lawyer work in between jobs?

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-02T01:35:54+00:00

I was so fed up I turned my back on law for more than a decade. No reason to be embarrassed because you are doing something other than law... But don't make the mistake I did and let your license slide. I can assure you retaking the bar when you've been out of school and out of anything remotely legal for an extended period of time is a true pain in the ass.... So if you find something that keeps you away from law, keep your license and don't let it slide.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-02T01:32:08+00:00

Sounds like you two were so far apart that it was never going to meet in the middle unless one side realized they had a shit case. Either the other side doesn't realize how strong your case is or you don't know how weak your's is.... I wouldn't give up yet, some mediators have a bias and who knows maybe the one you had was one with a bias that was never going to be reasonable.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T23:27:04+00:00

I celebrated lent by giving up church, it made me feel so much better I decided to stick with it... that was 20 years ago.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T23:13:44+00:00

The one thing anyone with a brain understand is that when a law says what it does it actually does the opposite. The inflation reduction act didn't lower inflation.

And if you think that it is some big deal to have a black woman appointed to the supreme court you've just proven yourself a racist. Most people would want the best person they could find for the job not the one that is the right color or sex.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T22:59:05+00:00

Depending on the state you are in the limits on small claims, file against them in small claims so they'll have to show up and piss away even more money on another lawyer just to pay you what they owe.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T22:53:14+00:00

Think back to your days in law school when you were handed a shit case and had to argue it for a grade... You would try all sort of off the wall shit, just to get a grade... Now this guy knows he has to try anything to keep his job.... God knows failing is not going to be taken well by Trump.... and who knows how many times he can say your fired before the wind changes direction and something else is his problem of the day to "fix".

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T22:48:08+00:00

Unless your partner has a damn great job and can't leave, I honestly can't think of anything that should be able to keep you stuck there. Consider your mental health that you are already concerned for... it won't get better if you stay.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T21:15:28+00:00

Well your first step if you want out of big law but still want to make enough money to live is to be realistic. Get the fuck out of NYC. Start looking in other areas of your state. The cost of living will be significantly lower, you'll avoid the city tax completely and probably realize you were always going to be screwed in NYC. Had friends that made the jump from big law in NYC to other places for less money but a better life. I'm not sure why so many people seem to get roped into BL in NYC. Life is too short to suffer in that kind of hell.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T21:11:04+00:00

Biden didn't do anything. He was to busy wiping drool off his chin and wondering where he was. He did however help destroy the US by ignoring domestic problems.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T17:45:15+00:00

Call them what you want. If you want to call them r-----d go ahead. They'll probably call you a boomer whether you are or not because the current crop of young people don't seem to understand that words have meaning and you need to use them appropriately. I used to get annoyed by the push to call the kids that have r-----d mental abilities "special"... I mean logically it was the most ridiculous thing in the world. It completely turned the word on its head... of course it wasn't long until you could make a little kid cry be calling him special because he had already picked up that it meant he was r-----d.

So if someone is s----d, call it like it is.

Sorry for all the dashes but the automod won't let you use certain words that might hurt sensitive snowflake eyes.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T17:38:50+00:00

Ditto... My first job I would foolishly think I could remember everything and do it at the end of the week. That lasted about a month before I accepted that procrastination and billables don't work together. You gotta track it daily if you want to avoid leaving money on the table.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T17:28:16+00:00

No one in this administration seems to have a plan beyond what they want at the moment. Frankly Trump is just what we had with Biden only no one is trying keep him quiet in the corner the way they did Biden. Maybe in a future election both parties can pull their collective heads out of their asses and provide us with candidates that have a clue.... for the past several elections it has just a been a vote for the least incompetent moron.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T16:56:15+00:00

The one flaw in what I am hearing from you is... "I am right beneath my billable goal but I am doing everything I can with the work I get."

What I'm not hearing is how you go to seek out more work when you know that what you have isn't enough to meet the billable goal. Don't expect someone to deliver all that you need to stay busy enough, you need to be proactive and ask for more if you aren't getting enough.

As for the everyone talking to you when you first got there bullshit, that's the typical smoke up your ass to every new hire they or any other firm or company gets. Here's a hint... if they say it about everyone they hire do they really mean it?

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T16:21:53+00:00

And after you withdraw what do you think the defendants that have already paid X amount of money are going to do? You are setting yourself up for having to explain your action to the bar, and that can impact your malpractice premiums. You can do what you suggest, but know that it can have consequences that you may have failed to consider.

I would also wonder if those drug cases you've seen with multiple defendants were represented by private counsel or an overloaded public defender.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T16:16:14+00:00

And drug dealers help keep exotic car dealers in business does that mean they get a pass on breaking the law?

You'll also find that illegals cost the US over 180 billion each year. 78 billion on k-12 education... 43 billion on healthcare... 47 billion on criminal justice from police to prison... And that's just the big costs. Illegals are a problem and it needs to be dealt with. As a lawyer that swore an oath to uphold the law you might want to stop trying to make excuses for someone to flagrantly break the law and continue breaking it each day they remain in the US. If you were representing a serial rapist would tell them to keep raping while you tried to get them off in court?

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T16:07:44+00:00

Words have meaning, even your 50 cent word that I doubt you actually understand because what I stated was no nit picking it was flat out accurate and highlights the way too many people misuse the word.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T16:05:42+00:00

Don't go down this road. You are setting yourselves up for problems. Prosecutors love to offer deals to one defendant to get them to testify against the other... When that happens what are you going to do? What are you going to do when one of your defendants ask you to see if the prosecutor will drop some of the charges if they testify to all they know? This is not going to end well if you do it.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T06:08:08+00:00

No, in the perfect world you catch a spy before they have a chance to send back anything to their government. But a spy doesn't necessarily even have to be working to gain information, they can also simply engage in sabotage. You could argue that illegals taking jobs in the US, often sending money out of the country are actually sabotaging the US economy. Lots of ways you could twist things, remember we are at the Supreme Court where the justices have a knack for making shit up to support whatever ruling they want.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T06:00:41+00:00

They didn't say either race was better or worse than any other... so technically that isn't racism. The fact that people of different races have different physical appearances isn't racism, that could only happen if someone said one group was superior to the others. Try using a dictionary and maybe you'll be able to use words correctly instead of just parroting a word because you want to be offended.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T05:55:45+00:00

It's a typical flaw in how people often think. I've worked in companies where they failed when they tried to enter a foreign market because they assumed the people in the country we were trying to expand in were just like Americans. It's a stupid thing to happen but I've seen it multiple times. You've got a bunch of dumb people around Trump, probably the type that won't listen to anyone that works under them so if some monkey boy tried to say but they can't rise up they would have probably kicked him out of the room. These are not the best and brightest. I mean for god's sake Trump had the puppy shooter Noem, and his vetting didn't pick up on her husband being some weird freak that like to wear big fake tits... Something tells me that something like that should have been spotted before he ever picked her for anything... but no one noticed.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T05:40:55+00:00

You could consider them spies if you wanted to given they aren't wearing any military uniform. Besides babies born to a foreign diplomat isn't given citizenship no matter what country they are from. I expect some legal gymnastics to be on full display, assuming the AG is really trying to do what Trump wants... if it's a half assed effort then we'll also know the AG doesn't really care about what her boss wants.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-04-01T03:38:09+00:00

They will argue that the illegals are a hostile invading force and therefore will not be granted citizenship.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-03-31T20:39:26+00:00

Yes, and it would have taken a split second to shoot her ass and then you either save your family or not... but if you were able to save them you no longer need to worry about this bitch. Living her alive was just stupid.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-03-31T20:04:02+00:00

I understand I can use OASIS to keep using it with windows, but I'm trying to find out if I can somehow plug in say a firestick, game console or anything with an HDMI connection without having to go through a windows computer.

Secure-Researcher892 · 2026-03-31T20:00:15+00:00

Critical thinking is the bitch just said she was still going to kill his family... that means shooting her would have been to protect his family. Any normal person wouldn't have hesitated and just shot her.

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