May 12, 2005
Letters From Lawyer Camp - Part DEUX
Just checking in with another lunchtime note.
We did direct and cross exam exercises this morning and I'm (cough, cough) happy to say that I got a very good review from an AUSA who most emphatically was not throwing softballs at us. Somehow, despite the fact that I blew off the assignment last evening (after attending a class reception that - I think - was deliberately timed to screw with us) and got up at 4:00 AM this morning to work on it, I sailed right through. Now I have to drag myself through a couple lectures this afternoon. And go to another reception tonight. And get ready at some point to cross examine an expert witness on his opinion tomorrow. And so the cycle repeats itself. Aside from a morning class on Saturday, we're off the rest of the weekend. [Note to the Missus: SHUT YOUR EYES] I plan to spend the entire time in a semi-comatose state. [Okay, now you can open them.]
I have to say again that this litigation business is so infinitely more interesting than the admin work I was doing, I should have got into it years ago.
Yip! at you later.
Posted by Robert at May 12, 2005 01:04 PMWait until you are in the throes of document production in a complex civil case with thousands of pages of documents and dozens of witnesses. At least working for the guv'mint, you will not have an ungrateful client bitchin' about the bill.
Posted by: LMC at May 12, 2005 01:46 PM
"I have to say again that this litigation business is so infinitely more interesting than the admin work I was doing, I should have got into it years ago."
And somewhere the Devil, in the guise of Al Pacino, smiles . . .
Run, Keanu! Run!
Posted by: The Colossus at May 12, 2005 03:13 PMOh, amen, LMC.
I worked, in a highly auxilary way, on Blue Cross-Blue Shield, State of Minnesota v. Phillip Morris, et.al. There was so much discovery, We actually had a separate warehouse down by the river. My job, along a few hundred other people, was to verify that Blue Cross had actually coughed up the documentation requested. {Shudder}
Nothing quite like working on a case where there's a six BILLION dollar settlement involved. Oy.
Are you sure you want to get into this, Robbo?
Posted by: Kathy at May 12, 2005 03:54 PM
