Ambassador
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Joined: 1/11/2008 From: Brussels, Belgium Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Ambassador Good evening, gentlemen, ladies. I made a lawyer weep, this afternoon. Again. Good for you. Was it fun ....GP Didn’t do it for fun, but it was satisfactory. For her, the humiliation was at the measure of her incompetence. Yeah, I really didn't mean fun, but way back I knew a judge up in the Boston area and he had no problem humiliating a lawyer if they were screwing up....GP I give them several chances to abort the mission, if they don’t get the signal, well, too bad, they get some flak. Like the bâtonnier (head of the local bar association) said a couple years ago, the time of the tourist lawyers is over. Some haven’t had the memo. The problem is really a problem of general quality of the lawyers. If they screw it before me, as long as it’s only for a misdemeanor and not one of the more important cases, their client doesn’t suffer so much bad consequences. If they screw up in some other courts, like criminal courts, consequences may be way more serious. If they can’t bother to properly prepare a small case, they get a verbal spanking. If they still don’t get it, usually their boss hears about it, and they’re out of the bar.
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