a bit late

the final courses provided for by the law society have come to an end. it was a joy to finally have half descent lecturers and to feel like i was learning again as opposed to all the mundane working that i have been doing.

during the last week we got our board exam results...
i can proudly say that i past the first of the board exams and am very happy! i was not entirely ecstatic with my mark but then again i was expecting to lose at lease 30% due to my lack of criminal practice knowledge which is now confirmed i do not have... aside from that i still came in the top 15% in this province and beat a whole heap of others with private tutors from bigger firms.

none the less even though my boss was certain that i wasn't ready to write this paper - and sure enough with respect to criminal law i was not, he takes full credit for my passing. apparently it wasn't the weekends of self tutoring or the evenings of reading it was all him. i never got study leave until the day before the exam and was examined by him only the day before i was set to take my days leave to cram four files into my noggin... his words were you'll never get through this, you are taking on too much blah blah blah confidence boost two days prior to writing your career paper blah blah... he now maintains that thanks to his superb instruction and general guidance i am amongst the top to pass...

still waiting to see when he plans on showing me how to handle the next 3 shortly to come...

in due course

when i am big and all grown up and stuff and i have harnessed the fine art of dumping i will know that i am fully developed and finally an adult...

there is a skill, it takes years of training and has been passed down roughly since the beginning of time. it might appear that everyone has been doing it for years, you know the general ground work but no one does it like a principle and a clerk.

the art of delegation is the skill of making it seem that everything passed down from your bored little hands is of the utmost importance and can only be completed by a highly skilled individual.

tired of using a phone to talk to people - delegate to your clerk to bug the sheriff or court to demand the documents that you needed last week, busy planing your next important lunch date -delegate to your clerk to draft papers that a typist with a little skill could knock together, feeling a little hung over from drinks after work - delegate to your clerk to trawl through the legal texts to find your answer to that pertinent question enabling you to solve your litigating nightmare...

the grasshopper is learning quickly and soon others will be privy to the inter office memo to consult with the court over a file 07/226L who's papers dont seem to have been returned from filing...

the bottom of the cespit award goes to...

once upon a time there was this belief that a good start was several lawyers at the bottom of a swimming pool, or something thereabouts. today i believe this adage has got it all wrong.

there is a specimen, a thing, that is lower than the lawyer... yes folks this is possible so stay with me on this... they lurk in the back waters, leering, pretending, siphoning info when they can get their grubby little paws on it, they are the 'journo'.

the journalist, as the species prefers to be known, is more akin and at home in the comfort of others misery. they sit huddled in groups giggling, pointing, sniggering and diving in at the scraps with more skill than the most highly evolved sewer rat.

all day long they assume the guise of the gainfully employed. they travel in packs a little like hyenas. they bandy about like the mean girls in high school and relish the demise of anyone who falls victim to their version of the facts.

long gone are the days when integrity, fact finding, or truths were the pinnacle of this profession. today what sells is what is reported, the story as would be best cast on the greatest stage. its irrelevant who's or how many lives are smashed in the wake of the 'news' seeker, in fact the more the merrier and what is worse is it is all done under the farce of public interest...

the reality is that shares and market relations control what is published and how the story is told. from the horses mouth 'i knew the story was inaccurate but what could be done? i had no control over it the editor went over my head'. its your name at the top of the article, no proof reading necessary then? yeah apparently literacy isn't a requirement in this profession...