Listen Like a Lawyer @ListenLikeaLwyr
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Neat thread on liars and lying.
Tip for associates: If you're on a call with nothing but partners and someone asks a question and there's total silence, that's your cue.
One thing that is really helpful while listening to an adverse witness testify, and during cross examination, is your client continuously tugging your arm saying “she is lying” then passing a note that says “she is lying.”
@Remember_Sarah I spend the whole time looking at myself to make sure I don’t look weird and appear to be interested
zoom calls are exhausting because actually listening takes half the energy of performing the act of listening
NEW: #SCOTUS notes procedures for historic telephone arguments beginning May 4.
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@BoozyBarrister My wife just asked me the other day who I was mad at on the phone. Nobody. It was just a work call where I was explaining legal stuff to non-lawyers. I guess I have a definite legal phone voice.
@BoozyBarrister My wife peeped her head around the corner with raised eyebrows the other day when she heard me addressing a particularly ornery opposing counsel in a very direct manner and with steadily increasing volume.
I guess a good thing about still going into my office daily is my spouse hasn't had to listen to me put on my "phone voices."
An observation: The law school asked us to call students to check in at the end of the semester. What have I learned? Unsurprisingly, no one answers the phone anymore. 23 calls, 4 students answered. I left (hopefully) amusing messages for those who actually had voicemail. Cheers!
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I’m sorry, I didn’t hear what you said, I was listening to a podcast on mindfulness.
Neat thread on liars and lying.
There are lots of people on Twitter this morning asking rhetorically "how can we believe what this liar is saying about the other liar?" This, of course, is a familiar problem in the courts /1
@Remember_Sarah I spend the whole time looking at myself to make sure I don’t look weird and appear to be interested
It’s time to do a Zoom test run from the @AppealsCourtGA courtroom.
It would be cool if law school taught us how to communicate with our clients' loved ones in a way that validates their fears & sets realistic expectations & lets them trust that we're doing our best & gives them space to be angry about the fact that our best might not be enough
My favorite lunch interview story is the law student from the Midwest who didn’t know what a tortilla warmer was for, so she took one of the tortillas out and rubbed it on her face like a hot towel
@LawyerCat_ I went to interview for a clerkship at a big Dallas last firm. On the way to my interview lunch I was walking with the partners interviewing me and the first partner steps into the revolving door out of the building. I had never used a revolving door before...
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@EmilyRMowry Lol ours is set to be automatic. I’m not sure what he did haha
@thetopexception Protip: there is a setting in Zoom that will automatically mute your camera and audio when joining a video call 😬👍🏻
Excited for law students everywhere to begin the next phase of their comprehensive legal education: how to be on a conference call without being the worst one and FYI the answer is mute your microphone.
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My rate is $750 per hour. Unless you leave me a three-minute-long voicemail, in which case my rate is $750 per minute.
The leading lawyer objection/reaction to my presentations is always, "I get it. But it doesn't apply to my firm/practice/client." No matter how customized & specific my remarks, lawyers are endlessly creative in discounting the relevance & believing in their own uniqueness. 1/5
Usually the biggest challenge when addressing a partner objection is pretending that the objection was novel, as if I hadn't heard it a thousand times before. In my notes, I will often indicate "Be ready for objection X here." And the choir typically enters on cue. 4/5
Much of the time, the objections are shared later to avoid confrontation and debate. Recently, one partner interrupted my introduction to tell me & all others present how my remarks wouldn't be applicable to him or his firm. He then proceeded to watch golf on his iPad. 2/5
When asked if he could tell when meeting with outside counsel whether the partners like each other, a former GC of a Fortune 50 company said "not only can I tell if they like each other, within 15 minutes I can tell how the firm compensates its partners."
Spent the afternoon facilitating a workshop with a group of lawyers on “cognitive diversity” in decision-making. Tough audience on this subject. Need to lie down now...
I had a deponent refer to me as “the chubby lawyer” on the record today, if you’re wondering how great my life is.
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