:D The Court dismissed one of our cases for failure to provide an affidavit of service on the defendant within the required time. Except we did, which even you could have found out by going to the DC Superior Court website and entering the names of the parties. Voila! Proof of service is recorded RIGHT THERE! So if the clerk had just checked their own website, the case would not have been dismissed. Hence the lying.
This happened in another case recently, believe it or not, but to the other side. Boss told me to clone the other attorney's Motion and Order. Hence the copying other people's work.
But... the other time wasn't exactly the same - the clerk told THEM they had run out of time to do the service, when, in fact, they had not. (What do these clerks smoke over there, anyway?!) So I had to change what the other lawyer wrote to fit our fact pattern. Hence, the making stuff up.
Boss was disappointed in my result. When he found out how little I had changed when I cloned it - menaing basically he was reviewing the other lawyer's work - he said, "I thought you could draft better pleadings than this!"
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Date: 2011-03-02 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-02 11:03 am (UTC)This happened in another case recently, believe it or not, but to the other side. Boss told me to clone the other attorney's Motion and Order. Hence the copying other people's work.
But... the other time wasn't exactly the same - the clerk told THEM they had run out of time to do the service, when, in fact, they had not. (What do these clerks smoke over there, anyway?!) So I had to change what the other lawyer wrote to fit our fact pattern. Hence, the making stuff up.
Boss was disappointed in my result. When he found out how little I had changed when I cloned it - menaing basically he was reviewing the other lawyer's work - he said, "I thought you could draft better pleadings than this!"
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Date: 2011-03-02 12:37 pm (UTC)