Monday, November 05, 2018
Chit-Chat-Advocates
-Your client knowingly transmitted HIV?
-They say.
-Defense?
-Stupidity, Cause-Effect a great big missing chunk!
-For all of us when we wish it!
Labels: HIV, individual, Law, lawyer, rationalization, sexual, sexual disease, will
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Just and Must
-Brits got wigs. Whaddawe…?
-Prancing and preening.
-And bribery for good measure?
-In proportion. Yes.
-Oh well, every society works
something out.
-Codes, Rules, Shebangs…
-The more sophisticated, the
more lying.
-Ah but Justice is Blind in America!
-She’s missing out.
Labels: bribery, imperfect law, Justice, Law, lawyer, lying, manipulated truth, society, spectacle
Friday, June 12, 2015
Young Law
Fresh from law school, neither Lorne or Erin find work.
So they decide to sue...anyone. For giggles and experience.
Enter Chuckie McCoy. Fierce Socialist, but money in the
family--though he pretends otherwise.
With his spurring, the attorneys file suit against a small
beachwear manufacturer, seeking damages for flagrant
violations of overtime regulations.
They thought the Judge, while not dismissing things as
frivolous, would throw it back to the proper government
agency regulating same.
But, under the Republicans, regulation little or none, so he,
a Democrat, lets it go on.
In the meantime, our fledgling attorneys do get hired by
separate law firms. They keep the case as a sort of service,
social hobby. The firms came aboard too, warily.
Two years pass, and the original manufacturer absorbed
by a rapacious conglomerate, which wants messy legal
triviality off the books, so a meeting arranged to forge
a settlement in a baronial penthouse boardroom atop a
new skyscraper of flash and aluminum.
They offer to pay ten thousand to each aggrieved worker.
The young lawyers pour sarcasm back.
The initial Socialist has become a maniacal Righty, but such
metamorphosis alters little re immediate Justice--except
the reluctance to pursue it.
Just really curbs civilized expression.
What’s finally resolved: Workers receive fifteen thousand each.
PCM in Conglomerate-Speak.
Paper clip money.
Since, their efforts pro bono, of course, our attorneys get
nothing, but their firms like the PR value: fighting for the
underdog, and sweeten their bonuses thereby.
The former Socialist glad to see it all end: embarrassed
by his once shrieking out for the little guy crushed by
etc etc etc.
Now he’s for the Freedom for that same little guy to
choose to be crushed.
Inside, doesn’t feel that different.
Labels: conglomerate, Justice, Law, lawyer, overtime, Right, socialism
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Pending
-We'll all be summoned. Treason.
-Nonsense! We've cooperated with
this new regime in every way possible!
-And haven't laughed.
-Besides, we just did what everybody...
-Best, anyway, to get lawyers.
-They've all been shot.
-That's in Shakespeare.
-Thank you, Jerome! You can always be relied
on for the trivial allusion!
-For how much longer?
Labels: lawyer, new regime, Shakespeare, treason
Friday, February 07, 2014
The Justice Tree
The Goldmine
Laurene wanted to renegotiate the Pre-Nup during the
Pre-Split, but finally agreed to enough to buy a third of a losing
spread off the grid in North Dakota. Her ancient parents supplying
the rest.
“Sorry to miss the goldmine of your fabulous lawsuit settlement
when it finally finally comes!” she laughed at Mox.
It did, and the financial press, called it huge. Proverb, his accountant, spat however: “Justice delayed is Justice denied.”
“Uh huh?” Mox was ecstatic: “But Justice! At long last!”
His feelings couldn't be dampened by Proverb's claim that
"These new fees from The El Cheato Law Firm, might just push
the whole business into the debit column.”
The actual firm of Mangrove, Headings, Dorst, Onofrio and
Rasmussin held a party. They emailed Mox a picture of the cake,
he being in hospital overnight due to a prescription painkiller
mixup.
Another of Proverb's sayings had gotten to Rasmussin
so many years ago: “A lawsuit is a tree that grows in
a lawyer's garden.”
So he had his gardener plant a sycamore, which initially flourished.
Mox erased his link to the webcam recently, since it had gotten
very mottled, droopy, its leaves grayish, and looked ready to die.
In his mind, however, staying forever green! The Justice Tree!
Labels: Justice, law's delay, lawsuit, lawyer, legal fees, tree
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
System
Last arrest,
she finessed
corruption,
hers and theirs.
But this time,
detective asks tight-
assed questions, desk
with tilted photographs
of family. Lawyering up,
awaits his hammy
Peter Max entrance.
Pleasant enough clam, she
can hold that pose forever.
Last arrest,
she finessed
corruption,
hers and theirs.
But this time,
detective asks tight-
assed questions, desk
with tilted photographs
of family. Lawyering up,
awaits his hammy
Peter Max entrance.
Pleasant enough clam, she
can hold that pose forever.
Labels: arrest, corruption, Criminal Justice, Detective, lawyer, lawyer up
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Firm
ASSOCIATE
Is it in hiding? Soon to flower forth in an old magnificence?
Has it been smashed down so thoroughly that we can't
expect it soon? And thus must we be patient?
Is it an abused child in a filthy ditch, thrusting forth
a dirty hand for a nickel?
HEAD
What's your point, Counselor?
ASSOCIATE
Simple! Where is Justice in this case?
HEAD
Never use that fuckin word in these chambers again!
