Lawyers of tumblr are you guys OK? The weirder things get in Dracula’s Castle the more lawyers pop out of the woodwork to say things like “yeah, that’s what being a new lawyer is like!”
I feel like if I’m ever in a lawyer’s office I should slip them a note telling them to blink twice if they’re being held hostage by a vampire.
I mean, no, but we’re never really okay, that’s just how law works.
So like when I was in private practice right out of school I worked for big banks and rich people and politicians so
Studying for my HR/salary calculations exam with my dad who used to work in HR his whole working life, and so far half of that is him being confused by my exercises because “no one calculates that themselves anymore, we’ve had computer programs doing that for ages” and the other half is him getting excited about it and just blazing through everything because it provides enrichment in the pensioner enclosure I guess, while I just sit there downing the third coffee of the day and hoping the caffeine sieves out and retains some pieces of the flood of information that just goes in one ear and out the other thanks to sleep deprivation. Love vocational college; 10/10 would not recommend.
I am not subscribed to dracula daily (I read it in October 2021 for my book club, so I’m good) but the lawyers of tumblr getting together to be like “….actually, if the managing partner cc’ed me on an email telling a client that I’m a good smart special boy? it wouldconvince me to ignore 12901483201 different red flags” is nice. validating.
the thing is not only is Jonathan Harker a lawyer, he’s a lawyer who JUST passed the bar. studying for and taking the bar melts your fucking brain so bad. all of his common sense has been replaced with property law. instead of brain there is short essay about insurance consumer protection. I guarantee he still remembers all six kinds of homicide in detail despite the fact that he will never touch criminal law in his life. it is honestly a miracle that he even made it far enough to get seduced by Dracula
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I’m normally not one for voluntarily submitting myself to human interaction, but I think finals are messing with my brain so here it goes
This is in fact the final exam of law school. The bar exam is just three days of having to argue about things you care about and prove to the examiners that you can do so without your voice cracking. You get two voice crack chances and then your lawyer card is forever taken away.
okay y’all I’m a lawyer who’s dealt with this a lot
there is no way jason actually knew that the process server was going to serve her in such a public fashion. believe him when he says he didn’t know.
generally, the lawyer has a process service company the firm works with, and it’s generally up to the process server to figure out how to serve the person. if they’re having trouble they sometimes ask the lawyer how to handle, but it never goes to the client usually.
in this case, because olivia wilde is a fucking celebrity, it likely would have been impossible for the process server to get close to her enough to serve her. on stage was likely the only way they could pull it off.
so stop calling jason petty! he didn’t know and there likely wasn’t another good way for the process server to serve her.
idk which bitch needs to hear this but in 2022 please put yourself first for once. spend money on yourself, on therapy, on things that bring you joy. treat yourself like you would treat a family member or friend. if you think something is too expensive to spend on yourself, consider if you’d hesitate to buy it for anyone else. give yourself the time that you keep giving to others. be less available. make yourself a priority.
This is a really shitty thing for someone to do. It’s insane to believe that this woman who has literally built and supported business across multiple industry is somehow less capable of becoming a lawyer than literally anyone else who ISN’T a lawyer… not to say that anyone who is a practicing attorney is has the ability to gauge the capability of someone they don’t know, personally. Anyone who isn’t supporting this, is a piece of shit.
You misunderstood the point of this post, let me explain:
As someone who spent money and grueling time to go through law school, take the bar, and become a lawyer, I have a knee-jerk, eye-roll reaction to any statement that anyone *will* be a lawyer when they haven’t yet done any of what it takes. Kim has to first pass California’s “baby bar” on first year courses before she is even eligible to take the actual bar, which basically no one who does the apprenticeship route ever passes.
Her dad was a famous lawyer and she has all the resources she wants at her fingertips, and good for her that she wants to take on this challenge. But telling the world that a college drop-out doing an apprenticeship is to definitely be a lawyer three years from now is misleading, and annoying for me to see, that’s all. This profession is not a right, nor a shiny thing you can just buy. It’s a privilege that you have to earn with time, money, and a lot of hard work, and even then requires luck to get.
This has aged well
It is now 18 days from 2022 and Kim has finally passed the baby bar, which means she has two more years and the bar exam left
everyone always says that the best profession you can have if you love hearing tea is working in HR but I disagree. as a lawyer you literally get the tea from all angles and from everyone involved and get to ask questions about it and make people swear that it’s true under the penalties of perjury. you also get to gather receipts and be like, but your honor, the receipts
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