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Lawyers of the Year 2009

Posted on December 17, 2009
Angela Ford was selected, along with three other female attorneys (well, one of which is Justice Sotomayor, of course), as Lawyers of the Year for 2009 by Lawyers USA. There were no women selected last year, so 2009 was obviously full of bad-ass chicks...

And hilarity ensues

Posted on December 15, 2009
Dear Mediocre Law School:I wish to thank you for your phone call yesterday evening, at 7:30 p.m., interrupting my valuable time with my child. It is the week before Christmas, and this was her final evening in Small Town for the year, since I'm working half weeks the next two weeks, out here two hours away from home...

Holiday crazy

Posted on December 14, 2009
The holidays are getting a little crazy. Busy at the office, everyone wants settlement money and child custody and their heat fixed, etc etc. I worked late nights last week, getting stuff done, making up for being gone a day and a half the week before...

MILP Roundup #128

Posted on December 13, 2009
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...

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Q and A with the Small Town Baby Lawyer from a Mediocre Law School

Posted on December 09, 2009
I get a fair amount of questions from folks out there who are either considering law school, or already in law school and trying to figure out what to do with themselves. Some of these questions come from strangers who've found this blog, some come from students at my alma mater, referred by friends in advising and admissions for undergrads and graduate students...

MILP Roundup #127

Posted on December 08, 2009
PT-Lawmom has it. Go show her some love, she's having a tough go of it.The Awesomeness of the Roundup will be here next week.

Action-packed insanity

Posted on December 07, 2009
A very action-packed weekend has come to an end, and I'm back in Small Town and back to lawyerin'.I made the very long drive from Small Town to the western 'burbs of Chicago on Thursday. Annoyingly, my depositions were canceled, but it was a good thing, because I was able to leave at 12:30...

Small Firm Life

Posted on December 02, 2009
Life in a small firm is much different from life in a mid-size or larger firm. Sometimes it's a really good thing. Like, a lack of bureaucracy. There's no time clock, no giant official handbook to memorize, no chain of command, and an overall lack of office politics, since it's, you know, just me and the boss...

The Exhaustion to Come

Posted on December 01, 2009
I know, I've been neglecting the blog for awhile. I've been busy and sick, then sick again, then busy, then just all around exhausted. Oh, and I've been having these headaches that are so horrific I'm convinced some sort of alien is going to hatch out of my skull at any moment...

MILP Roundup #126

Posted on November 30, 2009
Singing, Dancing MILP's. Butterflyfish has it.

Q&A with Moi

Posted on November 23, 2009
I thought instead of responding to this question in a comment, I would craft a slightly more thought-out response and write a new post. Nando asks:Is this how you envisioned the practice of law before going to law school? Also, wouldn't it be nice if law schools were focused more on the practice aspect of things...

MILP Roundup #125

Posted on November 23, 2009
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis here, PT-Lawmom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week, go to Butterflyfish for the awesomeness of the MILP roundup...

Life after Trial Prep

Posted on November 19, 2009
Trial Prep has been the bulk of my work since I started. We had like five trials scheduled through January, but now they're all gone. Either settled or rescheduled, or tried. So now what? Boss Dude has given me a few new cases to work on, and I'm starting to take appointments with new clients...

Trial Fail

Posted on November 18, 2009
I was in court this week for my first trial ever. I generally kill trials, just my very existence makes them not happen. Nine years in the legal profession, dozens and dozens of cases prepped for trial, witnesses subpoenaed, exhibits prepared, all ready to go, and all have been canceled...

MILP Roundup #124

Posted on November 17, 2009
PT-Lawmom has the awesome this week. You'll find it back here next week.

Wing-Nuttery Revisited

Posted on November 12, 2009
In nauseating dread of seeing that ridiculous woman's smug face on a row of books and knowing precious trees died for such a tragic cause instead of being used for a much nobler purpose such as toilet paper honor of Sarah Palin's whine-fest publishing debut, I thought I would link to my previous posts concerning her brief foray into national politics, particularly her interviews with Katie Couric for which she apparently spews hate is quite critical...

Awesomesauce

Posted on November 10, 2009
I found this website from the ABA newsletter, written by a solo practitioner who mocks his former firm's most villainous partners. It's definitely worth a read from the beginning, it's hilarious and outrageous. That dude has giant cahones because, while I could definitely write novels about the sociopaths I've worked for in the past, I would be terrified of having to face them in court over it...

Ich bin ein Berliner

Posted on November 09, 2009
Actually, I'm not. But, technically, my husband is. He was born in West Berlin, where he lived until he was about 8 years old. (A fact that gets us stopped and interrogated during every border crossing, because border control cannot figure out how he was born in Germany, is an American citizen, speaks only a little German, and has a mid-western accent...

MILP Roundup #123

Posted on November 08, 2009
Butterflyfish has it. You wants it.

MILP Roundup #122

Posted on November 01, 2009
Anyway. The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis here, PT-Lawmom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week, go to Butterflyfish for the awesomeness of the MILP roundup...

Halloween

Posted on November 01, 2009
The first costume attempt was Fail.AHHHHHH!!!! The Peep is EATING ME!!!!But we had great success with the second costume, minus the head piece...Abby Cadabby enjoying the spoils of that whole "Trick or Treating"Halloween was quite fun. I really enjoyed taking Cora Trick or Treating...

Misadventures in Health Care

Posted on October 29, 2009
I woke up in the middle of the night to find I couldn't open my left eye. Nasty case of conjunctivitis, and my eye got so swollen, it looked like someone punched me. I put a compress on it, and went back to sleep, knowing I wouldn't be going to the office in the morning, and need an antibiotic, particularly eye drops...

Lawyering

Posted on October 28, 2009
I got sworn in on Friday. There was torrential rain, a lengthy delay in the ceremony starting because someone's grandma (literally) stroked out in the middle of the court room as we're all waiting in the hallway and had to be taken away by an ambulance, and finally, after an hour of standing in high heels on marble floors, they announced my name wrong before we all swore to uphold the US and state constitutions and not to engage in duels with deadly weapons...

MILP Roundup #121

Posted on October 26, 2009
This week's roundup is there. Next week's roundup is here. You know you want it.

Meteor Shower Madness

Posted on October 21, 2009
I think this bizarre day was caused by cosmic debris. I can't explain it otherwise. First, Cora woke up at 3am to scream at us. She calmed down after a couple minutes and went back to sleep, but I couldn't go back to sleep. So I got out of bed to check on some meteor action...

Toddlerness

Posted on October 20, 2009
Now that the weather is getting cold (and particularly, it appears to always be raining), I'm trying to figure out "stuff to do" with Cora. I know, there was the conversation over at LL's blog about how saying a particular lifestyle would make you miserable is an affront to the other camp and their feelings, but shit, I struggle enough figuring out stuff to do with my kid just in the evenings and weekends, I'd be at a real loss figuring out what to do with her during the weekdays too...

MILP Roundup #120

Posted on October 18, 2009
Butterflyfish has it. PT-Lawmom has it next week. Then back here. You know you like it.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...

October doings

Posted on October 18, 2009
This past Thursday I attended a family law CLE at my law school. My boss wanted me to go, even though I can't count the credits (they said I could only if I went over to the capitol to be sworn in early... no thanks). He wanted me to go for the information and also the networking...

Getting to Now

Posted on October 13, 2009
It's been a helluva trip.I first gave serious consideration to a legal career back in 2000. I had just gotten laid off from a job doing corporate sales, which I really enjoyed, but even at 20 years old I recognized that would not be a career with much job security...

Weekly MILP Roundup #119

Posted on October 11, 2009
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis here, PT-Lawmom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week, go to Butterflyfish for the awesomeness of the MILP roundup...

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