{"id":1896,"date":"2012-02-15T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2012-02-16T20:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:23:44","slug":"am-i-a-wuss-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Wuss Lawyer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric the Unwashed Advocate<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

You know who and what you are.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re the guy who goes into court with a couple of decent motions. You file them knowing that you have a great chance of succeeding because, hey, the law appears to be on your side. From your perspective. You expect to win.<\/p>\n

Then, you don’t. . . .<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Then, as you lay on the ground, exhausted from your crying. You reach for your keyboard. You write. No, not a motion or legal brief. You write on Facebook, or a message board, or a twit. You write about the unfairness. You kick the process, the \u201csystem,\u201d the rules, and the deck so deftly stacked against your client. Unfairness reins supreme.<\/p>\n

Tears pour from your words.<\/p>\n

And not a damn bit of it helps your client.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is that me?<\/p>\n

I’ve noted before that, given particularly awful precedent in my state, things I’ve written here<\/a> could conceivably get me disbarred. But my willingness to write those things in spite of that doesn’t prove I’m not a wuss, because, as I’ve also noted before, part of me thinks the supreme court would be doing me a favor by disbarring me. Does my indifference to whether I remain a lawyer itself make me a wuss? I don’t think so. There are many ways to wage war, of which a license to practice law is only one.<\/p>\n

I view this blog as constituting a very small contribution to a very large (in terms of stakes if not of numbers of wagers) campaign, which the powers-that-be do not regard with unconcern. That campaign says: “Pay attention to the man behind the curtain.” “The Emperor has no clothes.” “The Constitution is of No Authority.”<\/a> These ideas, if they become general, will have consequences.<\/p>\n

Yes, my only weapon in this campaign is a keyboard. What would Eric call me if it wasn’t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric the Unwashed Advocate writes: You know who and what you are. You\u2019re the guy who goes into court with a couple of decent motions. You file them knowing that you have a great chance of succeeding because, hey, the law appears to be on your side. From your perspective. You expect to win. Then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}