Word: handing
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...culture has done little to improve the position of the attorney in society, giving us flaky Ally McBeal and cohorts on one hand and in-your-face, personal injury infomercials with 1-800 numbers and promises of cash rewards on the other. My local talk radio station, the ultimate embodiment of lawyer cynicism, plays the upbeat "Ode to a Sleazy Lawyer" every morning at 7:30, complete with sage tidbits of advice like: "Watch out for the ambulance chasers / Or you'll soon be served with papers." A quick search of the Internet finds thousands and thousands of websites devoted...
...started where one often starts at the beginning of a career--at the very bottom. For the first few weeks, I photocopied, typed up forms, tried my hand (and miserably failed) at taking dictation and sought to reorganize a mountain of files that had be recently transferred from another firm. Somewhere into my third paycheck (at this point I was still focused on the money), I was summoned into the office of one of the partners, who said that I had wasted enough time at the fax machine and that I should find myself some real work to do. Slightly...
What's true is that some lawyers are, for lack of a more sophisticated word, jerks. I've definitely encountered opposition teams who employ every dirty trick in the book in order to gain the upper hand, and I've seen the way a particular law firm will target only the types of clients which promise the greatest return. More disheartening is the way certain attorneys will drop a petitioner at the first sign of serious trouble, leaving their client with large bills and without representation...
Lengel, now with the Washington Post, said Giles had an "active hand" in creating "journalistically criminal coverage of the strike" and printing slanted stories...
...naturally adapted to this problem. I now only sit on the aisles, and I try to get the emergency exit row when I can. I don't normally like to take 200 peoples' lives into my hand, but I must in order to be comfortable...