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WHO KILLED BIG LAW Who killed Big Law, "Not I," says the Managing Partner who pressed economic fate, Who killed Big Law, "Not us," say the angry law graduate crowd, Who killed Big law, "Not me," says the Wall Street banker big wig, Who killed Big Law, "Not me," says the rainmaker star, Who killed Big Law, "Not me," says the legal recruiter, Who killed Big Law, "Not me," says the legal Grim Reaper whose Darwinian fists Who killed Big Law,
(Who Killed Davey Moore, Bob Dylan)
WilliamBanzai7
Why an' what's the reason for?
"Don't point your finger at me.
I could've stopped it before it was too late
An' maybe kept the Firm from this unhappy fate,
But my gold struck Partners would've booed, I'm sure,
At not gettin' bigger and bigger and more.
It's too bad professional collegiality had to go,
But there was a pressure on me to leverage, you know.
It wasn't me that made it fall.
No, you can't blame me at all."
Why an' what's the reason for?
Whose insatiable screams filled the hiring arena aloud.
"It's too bad it died alright
But we're hocked to the teeth and our budget is tight.
We didn't mean for it to meet this fate,
We might be greedy but we're not ingrates,
There ain't nothing wrong in that.
It wasn't us that made it fall.
No, you can't blame us at all."
Why an' what's the reason for?
Puffing on a big bailout cigar.
"It's hard to say, it's hard to tell,
I always thought that they did just a little too well.
It's too bad for them that their model's dead,
But if it is sick, its because of their own swelled heads.
It wasn't me that made them fall.
No, you can't blame me at all."
Why an' what's the reason for?
With his CV and business card still in his hand.
"It wasn't me that knocked it down,
My hands never touched it none.
I didn't commit no ugly sin,
Anyway, it's always the money that decides who wins.
It wasn't me that made it fall.
No, you can't blame me at all."
Why an' what's the reason for?
Pounding e-messages like a lateral roto-rooter,
Sayin', "The head hunting business ain't to blame,
There's just so much greed in the legal comp game."
Sayin', "Poaching is here to stay,
It's just the good old American way.
It wasn't me that made it fall.
No, you can't blame me at all."
Why an' what's the reason for?
Laid the legal biz low in a cloud of non-billable mist,
Who came here from the subprime meltdown's back door
Where exuberant billing ain't allowed no more.
"I hit them, yes, it's true,
But that's what I am here to do.
Don't say 'murder,' don't say 'kill.'
It was destiny, it was God's will."
Why an' what's the reason for?
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Most lawyers are sociopaths. They are the bottom feeders of society and 99 percent should be eliminated. I'm not particular about the method.
corzine walks free and lives la dolche vita..judges and lawyers are about getting as much as they can like a tick on dog. I guess there are some good ticks but I have never met one.. to be a lawyer or Judge you must loose justice to gain $$. look I do not point my finger at them because I am better, they are the legal system imposed on this nation to support the power structure, but they choose to work in it.
Open up a phone book and look at all those ads for lawyers.
Take a good luck at the faces. Pure slime.
And then there's 'The Continuing Matter"' . . . . (legal flypaper)
Who killed Big Law?
Bigger Law.
Regretfully, possibly one of your best Banzai.
Tnx, I finally decided to rework that capitalist pyramid image and the Titanic is all around us as you well know.
Unfortunately, there really all kinds of people who will be hurt by this actions of upper management in that firm and really don't deserve it. But in that respect, law is not unique. The little guy pays for the mistakes of the assholes upstairs.
As former Air Force, I can assure you the military is not further up the pyramid from the liesure class.
Are we allowed to say that?
http://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-InternmentResettlement.pdf
if the Titanic had sunk in 2008 it would have been refloated. (take note all those bearish on the dollar - yes the money in your bank account will be revalued at pennies on the dollar, but the new dollar, the one the banksters keep in the vault, or on their harddrive, it will do just fine, refloated as they say. this is what happened in 32, when the income disparity gap began to widen)
The ABA and our University systems are to blame. So cheap and profitable to open a law school, they have been opening and accrediting them as fast as they could. They keep the lawyer numbers down the best they can by failing 30-50% of bar examinees. Big education is to blame once again but in this case they wrap themselves in a smug cloud and say they are better serving legal needs of the poor with more law schools while lining their pockets from sucker law students and easy loans.
Pro bono is dead, along with every ethical-canon of the profession..
One would think attorneys would quit being faggots and defend the rule of law against it's new enemy - incorporated tyranny.
Sadly, they are all the same - already dead.
While it is popular to be opposed to the massive bribery that exists to facilitate business conducted in countries such as Mexico, it is most likely far, far cheaper and more efficient than having to jump through the legal hurdles erected within the U.S. to accomplish the same task...and it is far, far quicker.
This is one of many reason we see U.S. companies opening factories abroad.
Your point is correct when you talk about small and mid sized companies.
On the other hand, the larger, well connected corporations find it rather easy to conduct business in the US. Now that corporations are considered people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission, their ability to influence politicians has increased. Corporations such as GE can do business in the US while paying little to no taxes. Industry and Finance can get away with plundering the tax coffers, and breaking the law.
The regulations are in place to crush competition from the upstarts.
Large corporations move offshore primarily to decrease labor costs.
Local Pigs, serving their masters, keeping the neighborhood SAFE for da Banksters - They do it, 'cuz they need their shitty jobs so they don't end up "On Da Curb"....
http://afscatlanta.blogspot.com/search/label/investment%20one%20corporation
Watch the video and see "law" in action......
http://afscatlanta.blogspot.com/search/label/investment%20one%20corporation
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isa%2058:6-7&version=KJV
Sometimes I like to look at this version of the Bible.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isa%2058:6-7&version=MSG
Nice to see PigLaw going down.
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/05/dewey-know-whom-to-blame-some-say-steve/
Big law propels and feeds on the rising police state - it is a vicious cycle. When does it end? Of course when the last thing left is for it to be illegal to make law.
Wonderful stuff as always WB7.
Big law does play its part, but don't leave out congress and their multi-thousand page bills that fuel the rising police/regulated state.
Perhaps we should mandate all bills be handwritten by congressmen/vermin...
33 new partners in 1 year since the merger in the middle of a depression.
Count those Xanax carefully folks!
Law is the most overrated profession on this planet.
What is law? The ability to read the jargon that our government writes for regulations, able to search cases in the past to see who won and lost and on what grounds and to be able to advise and represent clients in a courtroom.
Most of us can read, search history and argue.
It is up to a judge or judge and jury to determine fate.
Methinks lawyers are an expensive waste.
Cherry Picker is manifesting what's known as the Illusory Superiority effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
I've seen many people represent themselves over the years, and they were all, to a man, totally incompetent at it. [And they were all men.] By thinking like Cherry Picker does, they all hurt themselves, sometimes irretrievably. Most people are of below average competency because competency is not normally distributed, in spite of what you think - see the link below.
So go ahead and represent yourself, bozo. Just make sure you post a notice online so we can watch you crash and burn.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x/full
I've represented myself more than once and made out OK, as long as the Judge is a good one. One that is interested in finding out the facts, not in a tiff because I didn't have representation.
On the other hand, I paid thousands to lawyers in the course of my life and except for one attorney who represented me, they weren't worth the money. The one attorney that was good was formerly a magistrate in Uganda until Adi Amin came along and he became a member of the London Bar before immigrating to Canada, so he wasn't infected with the lawyer "superiority" complex.
You're point is well taken, in that the study I cited reveals that the legal profession is subject to the same frailties as the population at large. You also support the assertion, though, that if your lawyer is well-chosen, you're far better off.
Cherry Picker,
Good point. And I am a lawyer!
I think Plato would refer to them as sophists.
Some are great orators and master manipulators...bullshit artists to the core.
If all of the lawyers were removed from the planet, it would do little in the long term. Now change that to doctors, engineers, or scientists and the outcome would be much different.
So says the armchair critic. And a doctor is merely being able to know a bunch of diseases, matching those diseases to symptoms and advising a treatment based on these symptoms. See how stupid that sounds?
For the record, I'm a FORMER lawyer. I have no love for the legal profession per se. And certainly not for the big law firms where I spent all of my legal career working hours on end. It's why I left. Lawyers are a dime a dozen, but a skilled lawyer is hard to find.
The average person CAN do what a lawyer does IF he is trained to do so (that goes for any profession, duh). Navigating through a minefield of laws is not easy and neither is formulating an ironclad argument on behalf of your client in the form of an oral argument or a brief. It's fucking hard, and it's far more than you can ever comprehend unless you've done it, which clearly, you have not.
I can't stand "big law" but I certainly have a lot of respect for many of my former colleagues, who were some of sharpest minds (and not just legal minds) I've come across.
And rest assured, let's see what an "expensive waste" you think a lawyer is if you're ever thrown in prison. Everyone hates lawyers until they end up needing one. And I can guarandamntee you would not pick some lawyer straight out of law school to represent you.
Lots of lawyer bashing.
This is (allegedly) a nation of laws.
Being represented by a bad lawyer can hurt almost as much as being operated on by a bad Dr.
Why do we need a "mindfield" of laws?
LOL! @ Mind-field. That is a good question right there. Some people up in here are thinkin...I smell smoke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buiO1K_kRSg
Kinda like Con-tract? and Re-Present?
To be honest with you, any person who excels at anything is usually worth what they ask for.
With law, as you admit, it is like tossing a coin.
I was in court many times as a young person. Even heard one magistrate shake his head in disbelief as the attorney stumbled attempting to defend a client. "Sit down. I don't want to hear you until you know what you are talking about" or something to that effect.
I looked at his client, thinking to myself, I wonder how much he paid to hear those words and how does he feel about his defense now.
It happens too often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXN4zAKRvVo&feature=related
It's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
I can see paradise by the dashboard light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmPMMitJDYg
I think ZH Knocks things off the front page when people start talking about stuff that worries whoever runs this asylum.
Here is one thing I have learned in my life. You can take things that don't belong to you, but after you have them, you find out you don't really want them. Most of the time, you also find out you took them from someone who would have been your friend. Maybe now you are all scared to give them back but I would say, go ahead and do it (if you can) before it's too late. Just because someone can do a thing, does not mean they will do that thing.
Trapped by a steel cage...
Very often, your captor is also the person who can set you free.
Sharp mind indeed. US citizen sharp mind.
Somewhere in China, a lost puppy is barking...and Anonymous' stomach begins to growl.
Awesome...I call the big firms that run flak for the banks "Black Hats".
That's fine. Just one problem working as a financial predator for bigger financial predators is; sometimes they eat you.
Harmon Law Continues Jihad on Justice and the Conjured Corporate "Resolution"
Harmon Law must pay evil google...I can't quite out-rank them in their index.
Brilliant WB