No more complaints, claims, counter-claims or cross-claims
No more answers, motions, or cross-motions or memoranda of law
No more notices to admit, notices of deposition, document demands or interrogatories
No more clients with perceived emergencies
No more adversaries who never return phone calls or emails
No more partners who abdicate all responsibility only to scream at you when they feel lost in the 11th hour
No more judges with confounding rules about letters, margins and font-size
I saw a crack of light and I ran for it. Thank you Lord if you are indeed up there and are a sentient being who understands gratitude.
What a clusterfuck. You want justice? Save your money, reach out to the other side and SETTLE.
The system isn't broken, it's compromised and commandeered
By clever counsel and clientele with deep pockets.
The system is the stage, lawyers are the puppets and the all mighty dollar,
Got Money? Great, there's a penalty for breaking the law and its just the cost of doing business.
Poor? Sorry, you are, for the most part fucked. Hope you have a story that will look good on a firm's pro-bono webpage or fits into popular notions of civil rights.
Delay is the name of the game, under the pretense of due process
The game is rigged to accomodate the lowest common denominator, frivolity.
Judges use Rule 11 as often as Ref's call traveling in the NBA, never. never ever? never ever.
Are there good people in the law? Of course. Many are close friends of mine. And most, if not all, I suspect, want desperately to leave, quit, be done with it.
Our profession is a drain on this country's wealth and well-being, hence why the industry has contracted since all the fake money evaporated.
We are the sentinels who guard a castle made of sand, and the tide is coming in to wash it all away...unless..
Someone..whoever..I don't know, the president? congress? the ABA? SOMEONE decides to go back to the drawing board.
Me? I'm going to a different drawing board, the education system.
Will life be perfect? No.
But the Practice won't be my life. And that is all that matters.
