{"id":7146,"date":"2006-08-31T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/08\/31\/sigh-its-love-litigating-lawyers-d"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:55","slug":"sigh-its-love-litigating-lawyers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/08\/31\/sigh-its-love-litigating-lawyers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"(sigh) it’s Love Litigating Lawyers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we discussed<\/a> rather fully one year ago today, August 31st has been declared to be \u201dLove Litigating Lawyers Day<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Even our friends at Overlawyered<\/em><\/a>.com would grudgingly admit that litigating lawyers are often a necessary evil in our society and justice system.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang would much prefer to celebrate Love M<\/em>itigating<\/a> Lawyers Day, along with Love Literary<\/a> Lawyers Day (such as all<\/a> those poets<\/a>).\u00a0 Until we can, we offer senryu about a lawyer or two.<\/p>\n

\"briefcaseWomen\"<\/p>\n

tagging along
\nwith an ice cream cone
\nthe senior partner<\/p>\n

long deposition–
\nthe lawyer\u2019s
\n\u201cat the risk of repeating myself\u201d<\/p>\n

. . . . by Barry George<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

clear and cold
\nthe snap
\nof her attorney\u2019s briefcase<\/p>\n

. . . by Ed Markowski<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

custody hearing
\nseeing his arms cross
\ni uncross mine<\/p>\n

early spring walk
\nyour hand
\nin my pocket<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . by Roberta Beary<\/a>
\n\u201ccustody hearing\u201d –\u00a0 A New Resonance 2<\/em>:\u00a0 & pocket change<\/em>
\n\u201cearly spring walk\u201d – snow on the water<\/em><\/a>: RMA 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

litigation bags —
\nthe associate\u2019s
\nhalf-closed eyes<\/p>\n

snack room — <\/span><\/div>\n
the litigator takes <\/span><\/div>\n
one-third of the donuts<\/span><\/div>\n

dagosan<\/a> \"one-third\"<\/p>\n

–\u00a0merci for the link, Dominic<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we discussed rather fully one year ago today, August 31st has been declared to be \u201dLove Litigating Lawyers Day.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Even our friends at Overlawyered.com would grudgingly admit that litigating lawyers are often a necessary evil in our society and justice system.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the f\/k\/a Gang would much prefer to celebrate Love Mitigating Lawyers Day, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Rg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10943,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}