A posturing attorney introduced me to a technique I had not yet experienced. Yesterday, I served an anti-SLAPP motion on the two attorneys listed on the complaint. This morning I received an email from one of those attorneys, acknowledging receipt of the motion, and asking that I change our proof of service going forward. He…
Author: Aaron Morris
You’ve Gotta Love this Gig Economy
There are a number of attorneys who make their living by making court appearances for other attorneys, typically at case management conferences and minor motions. They search the docket for upcoming hearings, and send emails to the attorneys, making them aware of their availability. This was a great service back in the day, but with…
Best Client Call of the Week
Happy birthday to you, You live in a zoo, You look like a monkey, And you smell like one too. -Anon I get lots of phone calls relating to defamation, where the caller wants to sue for some inconsequential slight. For example, a caller once told the story of how he tried to use…
Stick the Other Side with the Jury Fees
How to make the other side pay all the jury fees. This morning I (telephonically) attended a court hearing, and had to sit through 24 other cases before mine was finally called. Thankfully there were no motions; only case management conferences where the judge would set the trial date. Without exception, I witnessed the following…
Invent Your Own Motions
I remember when I started at my first firm out of law school, I thought that every motion had to follow some special format. Certainly different types of motions have their own requirements, and just today I saw an attorney lose a motion simply because he failed to observe a rule, but as a newbie…
What I Do Have are a Very Particular Set of Skills . . .
A client brought me a very strong defamation case, but like so many defamation clients, she wasn’t really interested in money, she just wanted the defendant to remove her defamatory posts. I sent the defendant a cease and desist letter, explaining that her posts could not be defended, and telling her that she could avoid…
Best Testimony of the Week
A cautionary (and entertaining) tale of an attorney who set himself up for ridicule during testimony by way of a false hypothetical. My client was being deposed, and he had testified that his wife had spent a great deal of time managing an apartment complex that she owned with a partner. Let’s call it the…
Best Client Call of the Week
Due to our SEO efforts, it is not uncommon for potential clients to call us multiple times about the same case. They don’t keep notes, so they don’t have any record of who they have called. They just move to the next Google search result, and start dialing. I have no problem with that. In…
Loving the Practice of Law
God I love the practice of law. Oh, it can certainly suck at times, but there are not too many other professions that pay you for an intellectual pursuit. Being a chemical or biological researcher is probably intellectually stimulating as well, but that lacks the dueling aspect. Metaphorically, I suppose, a researcher looking for a…
Best Client Call of the Week
I’m not a Karen; don’t you dare call me a Karen. Sometimes I think we are all in the Matrix, sleeping in our goo filed tubes, controlled by a computer with a warped sense of humor. Stuff like this just could not happen in a real world. You’ve probably heard the term “Karen.” I don’t…