{"id":9833,"date":"2008-08-28T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=9833"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:21","slug":"another-reminder-august-31st-is-love-litigating-lawyers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/28\/another-reminder-august-31st-is-love-litigating-lawyers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"another reminder: August 31st is Love Litigating Lawyers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Snoopy or Sharky?<\/strong><\/em> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

snack room \u2014
\nthe litigator takes
\na third of the donuts<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. by dagosan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

W<\/strong><\/em>hen you think “lawyer,” which image comes to mind: Snoopy<\/a> or Sharky<\/a>? You don’t have to read the study <\/span>\u201cPublic Perceptions of Lawyers<\/a>\u201c<\/span> (ABA Section of Litigation, 2005), nor our Shakespeare on Lawyers<\/a>, <\/span>to know how most people react to the L-word. Therefore, <\/span>although the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang prefers mediation<\/a> to litigation (and have gathered many stinging quotes<\/a> about litigation and trials), we’ve done our best<\/a> the past few years to remind our readers and blogging colleagues that August 31st is Love Litigating Lawyers Day<\/a>. It is no surprise, however, that LLL Day (which was created by Wellcat.com<\/a>), like the similar April 8th celebration of Be Kind to Lawyers Day<\/a>, just doesn’t seem to be catching on with either the public nor the Bar. Indeed, Wiley has noted this problem in several Non Sequitur<\/em><\/a> cartoons, such as this one<\/a> and that one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is not at all clear what we can do to make lawyers (not to mention litigation) more popular. Over at EdHelper.com<\/a>, August 31st and Love Litigating Lawyers Day have been turned into a Career Day theme for Grades 7 to 12. However, I’m not too sure that the suggested Lesson Plan for the day — a vocabulary list — is going to lure many youngsters into the profession:<\/p>\n

Vocabulary – challenging words<\/em>: articulate, himself, lethargic, problem, anyhow, watcher, abreast, all-important, never-ending, glamorous, passionate, solution, ever-changing, ongoing, meaningful, position<\/p>\n

This approach might work better:<\/p>\n

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

… by Barry George<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> I’m not even sure that this lovely “Lawyers Do It In Front of a Jury of Their Peers<\/a>” t-shirt (via George Lenard<\/a>) will help improve the popularity of the legal profession, despite the prevalence of dirty old men<\/a> in the general population and the Bar.<\/p>\n

\n

mid-argument –
\nopposing counsel crosses
\nher legs<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

. . . by dagosan<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As you may recall, not even trial lawyers<\/a> want to be call trial lawyers any more. But, we would have thought that Walter and Ted at Overlawyered.com<\/a> would want to toast the profession that has made them famous in the blogisphere. The closest we could find to a celebration of litigators this week at their website is Walter Olson’s coverage of “Biden and the Trial Lawyers<\/a>” (Aug. 23, 2008) — which tells of the Democratic nominee for Vice President’s close ties to the plaintiff’s bar, and recalls Joe Biden’s affectionate “bottom-feeders” line (via Point of Law<\/em><\/a>):<\/p>\n

\n

“I’ll pay the bottom-feeders to go out and get these big fees to stop bad guys from doing bad things.” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"dem. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That reminded me, of course, that the Democratic National Committee<\/a> should love litigating lawyers a lot<\/em>. (See, e.g<\/em>., CampaignMoney.com<\/a>, which shows that Democrats have received 80% of of all political contribution by trial lawyers since 1999; and “Cash Bar<\/a> – How trial lawyers bankroll the Democratic party,” National Review<\/em>, August 20, 2001.) If they hurry, on the last day of their National Convention<\/a>, perhaps the Dems can hold a quick, early celebration in honor of Love Litigating Lawyers Day.<\/p>\n

If you need an even better reason — beyond the Sermon on the Mount — to love litigating lawyers, check out Carolyn Elephant’s post at Legal Blog Watch<\/em>, “Litigation as Profit Center<\/a>” (Aug. 26, 2008). Carolyn points to an article in The Columbus Business<\/em> Journal, which ” describes the range of different revenue sources that have developed around the Franklin County Courthouse.” And, she concludes, “Ah, profiting off of litigation — isn’t that the American way?”<\/p>\n

. . . . . . . . . . .\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s all the time I’m going to spend convincing you to do a little something nice for a lawyer on August 31st (even the non-litigating ones). Try hard to curb your enthusiasm. You know how much the Bar treasures its image of dignity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

litigation bags \u2013
\nthe associate\u2019s
\nhalf-closed eyes<\/p>\n

… by dagosan<\/p>\n

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

… by Ed Markowski<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> afterwords<\/em><\/strong> (Sept. 1, 2008): Thanks to Ed of Blawg Review<\/em><\/a>, I discovered today at Peter Black’s Freedom to Differ<\/em><\/a> weblog that August 31st has also been declared Blog Day<\/a>, on which bloggers are encouraged to point to “5 new blogs that you find interesting.” Among his selections, Peter suggested a new-to-me blawg from Australia, SkepticLawyer<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Since we have been the proud home of SkepticalEsq<\/em> (and Prof. Yabut) for more than 5 years, we send a big “Howdy, Mates” to the team at SkepticLawyer<\/em>.\u00a0 Now, the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang doesn’t want to sound toooo cynical, but we are well past the time when we felt we had the time to investigate five new weblogs — no matter how interesting and worth of persual they may be.\u00a0 We’re pleased to have learned of just one interesting weblog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snoopy or Sharky? snack room \u2014 the litigator takes a third of the donuts \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. by dagosan When you think “lawyer,” which image comes to mind: Snoopy or Sharky? You don’t have to read the study \u201cPublic Perceptions of Lawyers\u201c (ABA Section of Litigation, 2005), nor our Shakespeare on Lawyers, to know how most people […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2yB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833","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=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12196,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions\/12196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}