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superrific said:
Now I understand why you are so angry. Your life has been an unmitigated failure in every way. You went from a privileged background to an of counsel position with a tiny firm.

Just so all the non-lawyers know, an of counsel position with a four person firm is about the lowest job you can get as a practicing attorney. Not quite the lowest -- the sad sacks and drunkards whom Texas employs to handle capital cases for indigent defendants are probably the lowest. But it takes special incompetence to go from a wealthy NC Republican to groveling for scraps from a treasonous criminal.
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Good grief. I disagree with Ramrouser on a lot of political stuff but this broadside against of counsel is a gross exaggeration, IMO. I work with terrific counsel / of counsel lawyers — in a lot of cases, folks whose specific expertise is quite valuable and outweighs their marketing skills to generate their own book of business.
 
superrific said:
Now I understand why you are so angry. Your life has been an unmitigated failure in every way. You went from a privileged background to an of counsel position with a tiny firm.

Just so all the non-lawyers know, an of counsel position with a four person firm is about the lowest job you can get as a practicing attorney. Not quite the lowest -- the sad sacks and drunkards whom Texas employs to handle capital cases for indigent defendants are probably the lowest. But it takes special incompetence to go from a wealthy NC Republican to groveling for scraps from a treasonous criminal.
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Keep on thinking I'm unhappy, angry and unsuccessful if it makes you feel better and gets you through your day. Any objective reading of the postings on this board reveals exactly who are the bitter and angry folks.

I choose of counsel for the freedom it gives me. I was a partner in a law firm and grew tired of the fighting over money and dealing with associates.
 
The problem with Dems is they see race everywhere. The great thing about maga is we see people for who they are. 😵‍💫
 
Can't speak for anyone else but I've lost all interest in trying to defend the way Biden's team handled the job, at least from 2023-2024. Credit to them for getting some great stuff done in the first two years. But the end was a shitshow, and it's a huge part of the reason we have a fascist authoritarian in the White House now.

My running list of takeaways from the last few years:

1. A party should never, ever, ever allow a person to become a candidate for any federal elected office unless it would be an absolute shock for that person to die before his or her term is over.

2. Presidents and party nominees for president should be required to release a medical report every year, by no later than July 31, that (a) is administered by a neutral AMA-designated practitioner (none of this Trump is 225 lbs bullshit), and (b) includes a credible cognitive function test.

3. A rotating consortium of representatives from 24 media outlets (which should include some conservative outlets, as repulsive as they may be) should be able to veto a president's press secretary nominee with a 2/3 vote.
 
nycfan said:
Good grief. I disagree with Ramrouser on a lot of political stuff but this broadside against of counsel is a gross exaggeration, IMO. I work with terrific counsel / of counsel lawyers — in a lot of cases, folks whose specific expertise is quite valuable and outweighs their marketing skills to generate their own book of business.
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Fine. I will delete. It wasn't a screed against of counsel lawyers, though. It was about of counsel family law practitioners. It is also informed, of course, by the poster's repeatedly demonstrated incomprehension of law.
 
On KJP, some random thoughts:

1. Victory has a thousand parents and defeat is an orphan, right? Everyone associated with the defeat is going to point fingers. They will point most naturally at a person who is leaving the party. Like, literally the best person to point to is the person making their point-back irrelevant, and everyone piles on. I think this is why people are perplexed at KJP's decision -- it just sets her up for slings and arrows. That might be her goal.

2. I never envy the job of a press secretary, but it can be more difficult in some circumstances than others. A person who lies without conscience will not find the job challenging, nor someone insufficiently educated to identify the falseness she spews. But if you're smart and conscientious, and you're told not to say that inflation is going down, when it is, because that seems insensitive, even though it actually is expressing an expectation that things will soon be better -- and so instead you're supposed to say that president Biden believes that prices have gotten too high and unaffordable and that is why he is taking decisive action to combat it. That would depress me. It's factually accurate and not misleading per se, but it's a dishonest tone. I guess that's how you could describe the Press Sec job: it's an exercise in dishonest tone (a fancy way of saying "spin"?)

I have no idea whether this informs the situation but it might.

3. KJP would not be the first person in history to find herself in love with the spotlight.

4. Suppose you're running the Biden campaign. A reporter has a question about Biden's policy about something. Who would you prefer to have answering the question? The WH press secretary, or the Biden campaign spokesperson? That could explain a lot about what she was actually able and/or expected to do.
 
nycfan said:
Good grief. I disagree with Ramrouser on a lot of political stuff but this broadside against of counsel is a gross exaggeration, IMO. I work with terrific counsel / of counsel lawyers — in a lot of cases, folks whose specific expertise is quite valuable and outweighs their marketing skills to generate their own book of business.
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Yeah, I join NYCfan on this one. Of counsel, by itself, doesn't really tell you very much. I know of counsel who make more than partners at the same firm, or they work at multiple firms, or they are semi-retired or they work part-time. To me, of counsel signifies that you are in a dating relationship with the firm, rather than being married. I don't read too much into Ramrouser's title.
 
Calheel said:
Yeah, I join NYCfan on this one. Of counsel, by itself, doesn't really tell you very much. I know of counsel who make more than partners at the same firm, or they work at multiple firms, or they are semi-retired or they work part-time. To me, of counsel signifies that you are in a dating relationship with the firm, rather than being married. I don't read too much into Ramrouser's title.
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You are talking about very different firms, I think. This office has like four lawyers, but anyway it's not relevant. It was an ad hominem attack. He makes clear on a regular basis that he doesn't understand how law works, so piling on doesn't accomplish anything in the first place.
 
Ramrouser's credentials speak for themself. I'm not judging him because of what he does for a living. I judge him because of the positions he takes on this board. One of those being to defend his rainmaking partner who would likely be spending several years in federal prison if Trump had not won the presidency and interfered with the administration of justice.
 
Ramrouser said:
Funny, KJP jumping off the Dems' sinking ship to pretend she's now an "independent" in order to cash in. I hope she explains why she lied everyday from the podium about her "not being able to keep up with Biden" around the White House.

This could be good.
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Hooo-Whee! This whole Musk-Trump battle royale is really taking the sails out of any minor blip the KJP news caused yesterday.
 
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