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A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:17 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
I baby-sat my friend's son this afternoon. I drove him home, after I took Maddie to Mock Trial.
He asked me why Maddie has to go to school at night. I told him that Maddie is learning to be a lawyer.
He told me that he wants to be a lawyer.
I asked him why.
He said that lawyers get to kick people in the nuts, then they get to kick people in the booty and they get to go into the teacher's lounge without getting in trouble.
Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:46 pm
by MarleysGh0st
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote: He said that lawyers get to kick people in the nuts, then they get to kick people in the booty and they get to go into the teacher's lounge without getting in trouble.
What TV show is
he watching?
Funny, though, that the top of his list of "things they can get away with" is entering the forbidden domain of the teachers' lounge!

Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:38 pm
by Appa23
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I baby-sat my friend's son this afternoon. I drove him home, after I took Maddie to Mock Trial.
He asked me why Maddie has to go to school at night. I told him that Maddie is learning to be a lawyer.
Well, at least, she is learning to act like a trial lawyer.
There is that little step called law school for actually learning to be a lawyer (and, even then, they do not teach you about 90% of what being a lawyer entails).
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:04 pm
by PlacentiaSantaMummer
It is a humble mummer's humble opinion that Maddie would be fabu in John Roberts' spot...

Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:07 am
by fantine33
Appa23 wrote:There is that little step called law school for actually learning to be a lawyer (and, even then, they do not teach you about 90% of what being a lawyer entails).
I'll agree with HD (!!). Well, with the parenthetical part, anyway. 88% of the 90% is what the court clerks have to teach them.
Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:37 am
by peacock2121
fantine33 wrote:Appa23 wrote:There is that little step called law school for actually learning to be a lawyer (and, even then, they do not teach you about 90% of what being a lawyer entails).
I'll agree with HD (!!). Well, with the parenthetical part, anyway. 88% of the 90% is what the court clerks have to teach them.
wow!
I thought he was being a jerk.
Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:08 am
by fantine33
peacock2121 wrote:fantine33 wrote:Appa23 wrote:There is that little step called law school for actually learning to be a lawyer (and, even then, they do not teach you about 90% of what being a lawyer entails).
I'll agree with HD (!!). Well, with the parenthetical part, anyway. 88% of the 90% is what the court clerks have to teach them.
wow!
I thought he was being a jerk.
I thought he was being a jerk as well. Which is why I said I agreed with the parenthetical portion. All the smarty pants lawyers might take umbrage at the reason I agreed with him (but the smart lawyers know it's true).
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:41 am
by tlynn78
I'll agree with HD (!!). Well, with the parenthetical part, anyway. 88% of the 90% is what the court clerks have to teach them.
100% true. ANd the other 10-12% they learn from Judges' assistants.
t.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:45 am
by peacock2121
And the rest they learned in high school at Mock Court.
Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:16 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
Appa23 wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I baby-sat my friend's son this afternoon. I drove him home, after I took Maddie to Mock Trial.
He asked me why Maddie has to go to school at night. I told him that Maddie is learning to be a lawyer.
Well, at least, she is learning to act like a trial lawyer.
There is that little step called law school for actually learning to be a lawyer (and, even then, they do not teach you about 90% of what being a lawyer entails).
I understand this. I was trying to simplify what Maddie was doing for a little kid.

Re: A six year old's view of lawyers
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:49 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
fantine33 wrote:
I'll agree with HD (!!). Well, with the parenthetical part, anyway. 88% of the 90% is what the court clerks have to teach them.
That is clearly false, the clerks do not teach lawyers 90% of what they know. Lawyers know lots and lots of stuff. It just that the stuff clerk tell us is 90% of the
useful stuff we know.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:12 pm
by MarleysGh0st
With the Bored lawyers making such a fuss about what they know and who they learned it from, not one of them is commenting on the activities that six year old says they engage in.
I'm just saying...

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:16 pm
by Appa23
MarleysGh0st wrote:With the Bored lawyers making such a fuss about what they know and who they learned it from, not one of them is commenting on the activities that six year old says they engage in.
I'm just saying...

Well, there is that old element of trial by combat.

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:20 pm
by Rexer25
Appa23 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:With the Bored lawyers making such a fuss about what they know and who they learned it from, not one of them is commenting on the activities that six year old says they engage in.
I'm just saying...

Well, there is that old element of trial by combat.

Yeah. OK, but what's the big deal with the Teacher's Lounge?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:21 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
Rexer25 wrote:Appa23 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:With the Bored lawyers making such a fuss about what they know and who they learned it from, not one of them is commenting on the activities that six year old says they engage in.
I'm just saying...

Well, there is that old element of trial by combat.

Yeah. OK, but what's the big deal with the Teacher's Lounge?
Nick said that they have soda machines in the Teacher's Lounge and that there are always snacks.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:28 pm
by Rexer25
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Rexer25 wrote:Appa23 wrote:
Well, there is that old element of trial by combat.

Yeah. OK, but what's the big deal with the Teacher's Lounge?
Nick said that they have soda machines in the Teacher's Lounge and that there are always snacks.
So, extrapolating from what Nick thinks, lawyers are always hungry and thirsty for stuff that's prolly bad for them?