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[Goodvibes]

I never charge friends and family for the usual couple hours of advice/research/background checks. If they hire me to form a company or draft offering documents, its full price.

I hate a lot of lawyers too, though I find on balance they are both smarter and more ethical than the average human.

My last stint at school was two semesters of Contract Law, from an engineering and technology perspective.

I have to say they were the most enjoyable courses I have done. After thinking that there was nothing better than binary black and white fact and fiction world, unexpectedly I saw the fascination with grey, reasonableness, consideration and fuzzy concepts generally.

Didn't need to use it much because I was producing business proposals and offers before and after that, but dealt with them with increased confidence. That was why I bothered.

Oh, probably the only time the contract training came in handy, was the use a a standard Master Builder contract used here by Licensed builders to get their insurance covered by their weak as piss association. It contained clauses to allow the builder to reconstruct a washed out access to the construction site, charge the owner, in any way and for whatever that cost, without consulting the owner of the property. That was modified to the obvious surprise of our builder.

So in hindsight, I enjoyed the way to legal world changes how you think, to be able to deal with ambiguous situations a little better.

 

[ShortForBob]

Edit: Meli, if you have an actual visual or other learning disability that prevents you from seeing words correctly, please accept my apologies. I do not intend to make fun of the disadvantaged.

If, on the other hand, you just type words without considering whether they are spelled correctly, then fuck you for not respecting your reader.

Does anyone just type words without considering if they are spelt "correctly"?

Maybe the reader could respect the writer and manage to understand what is meant by the context in which a word is used. Anything else is idle arrogance.

 

[ShortForBob]

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; 5 Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, 10 That slepen al the nyght with open eye- (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; 15 And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.

When in April the sweet showers fall That pierce March's drought to the root and all And bathed every vein in liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower; 5 When Zephyr also has with his sweet breath, Filled again, in every holt and heath, The tender shoots and leaves, and the young sun His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run, And many little birds make melody 10 That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage) Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage, And palmers to go seeking out strange strands, To distant shrines well known in distant lands. 15 And specially from every shire's end Of England they to Canterbury went, The holy blessed martyr there to seek Who helped them when they lay so ill and weak

Bifil that in that seson, on a day, 20 In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye 25 Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde. The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste; 30 And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste, So hadde I spoken with hem everichon That I was of hir felaweshipe anon, And made forward erly for to ryse To take our wey, ther as I yow devyse.

It happened that, in that season, on a day 20 In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay Ready to go on pilgrimage and start To Canterbury, full devout at heart, There came at nightfall to that hostelry Some nine and twenty in a company 25 Of sundry persons who had chanced to fall In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all That toward Canterbury town would ride. The rooms and stables spacious were and wide, And well we there were eased, and of the best. 30 And briefly, when the sun had gone to rest, So had I spoken with them, every one, That I was of their fellowship anon, And made agreement that we'd early rise To take the road, as I will to you apprise.

35 But nathelees, whil I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, 40 And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne; And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.

35 But none the less, whilst I have time and space, Before yet further in this tale I pace, It seems to me in accord with reason To describe to you the state of every one Of each of them, as it appeared to me, 40 And who they were, and what was their degree, And even what clothes they were dressed in; And with a knight thus will I first begin.

 

[Snaggletooth]

I became a lawyer for two reasons.

1) My father fucking hated lawyers.
2) I fucking hated my father.

that cante be healthey......

 

[MR.CLEAN]

Does anyone just type words without considering if they are spelt "correctly"?

Maybe the reader could respect the writer and manage to understand what is meant by the context in which a word is used. Anything else is idle arrogance.

Yes, make it the reader's job to decipher your 5th grade level writing. No wonder you catch so much shit.

 

[MR.CLEAN]

So in hindsight, I enjoyed the way to legal world changes how you think, to be able to deal with ambiguous situations a little better.

Law is fascinating, and a law degree makes one better at any other profession or job.

 

[Goodvibes]

Law is fascinating, and a law degree makes one better at any other profession or job

You could be right , but it sounds like patronising stuff you hear on campus from every discipline.

 

[ShortForBob]

Law is fascinating, and a law degree makes one better at any other profession or job.

Except perhaps anything requiring humility, flexibility or intuition.

 

[vibroman]

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its all about cognition baby 😀

 

[Se7en]

Yes, make it the reader's job to decipher your 5th grade level writing. No wonder you catch so much shit.

Dude, this is just getting lame.
There was so much more fertile ground you could have explored with a geriatric chick confusing waste and waist.

Eg: Whilst Easy sheets might refute the proposition, the rest of us are quite sure that everything in the vacinity of her waist has been wasted.

If you do ever come to a position where you think you understand the words she types, it just leaves you completely bemused as to how anyone with such a poor understanding of life is able to communicate across the internet. Best I can do is that she has a literate guy with no self esteme and an over tight gimp suit, locked in the cellar of her library. Have you never noticed how Meli and Easy seem to post at the same time?

 

[Se7en]

Law is fascinating, and a law degree makes one better at any other profession or job.

You know, the dude that made me a drunken kebab an hour ago said the same thing. "If you get sick after eating this kebab, don't bother sueing me, I have a law degree"

Besides from him, I have to say that most folks consider that statement to be a load of crap. But to be fair, you didn't say that having a law degree made you a better person...

 

[PurpleOnion]

Law is fascinating, and a law degree makes one better at any other profession or job.

From what I've seen, it forces a degree of precision in communication, especially writing, that most people don't have the patience or, possibly, aptitude for. That, and perhaps enforcing a diligent and disciplined approach, but that's questionable in my mind. That said, I'm genuinely curious where else you think it provides enhancement as I have blinders on.

 

[Goodvibes]

From what I've seen, it forces a degree of precision in communication, especially writing, that most people don't have the patience or, possibly, aptitude for. That, and perhaps enforcing a diligent and disciplined approach, but that's questionable in my mind. That said, I'm genuinely curious where else you think it provides enhancement as I have blinders on.

If Clean is a representative of the legal species, then the disapline makes them arrogant and condescending.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

But even the dumbest can spell better than you do.

You try spelling like Snaggy. It's not as easy as he makes it look!

Law is fascinating, and a law degree makes one better at any other profession or job.

How much better than you do I really need to be able to read your sources?