Proof "thinking like a lawyer" is going to make me (more) annoying:

[eyesroll]

At the grocery store tonight, I wondered if, when I opened the freezer door and about half a million individual peas came tumbling out, I would be liable for negligence should someone get hurt if I did not report the mishap in a timely manner. I thought about it using the objective standard (what a "reasonable person" would do in that situation). And then I thought that many "reasonable people" suck, and I bet a jury would hold someone liable for something that the individual members may still do and not admit it.

I am willing to bet my SO is happy I did not go grocery shopping with him.

(I reported the avalanche of peas, just in case.)

[Blue-Jay]

1. Have you joined FAC yet?

Future Ambulance Chasers

:yoiks:

(Seriously, you couldn't have picked a better "fit" as a profession. You're gonna be awesome, my friend.)

[eyesroll]

2. No, I did not join the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[Floogeldy]

8. I hope at this very early stage of your training . . .

. . . you do not have any prejudices against "trial lawyers." ;)

[eyesroll]

9. Nope...but it is the student group that attracts the future ambulance

chasers (as well as the future ethical trial lawyers).

[Floogeldy]

10. Defense attorneys are trial lawyers, too.

;)

[KFC]

3. Why do lawyers wear their ties so tight?

So their foreskin doesn't ride up over their head.

Not that this applies to you, but this is my favorite lawyer joke.

[lost-in-nj]

4. Why would you want

to pea on the floor????




:rofl: :rofl:




:hide:
you knew it was going to be asked!




lost

[Floogeldy]

5. You had no duty toward any potential injured person.

No duty, no negligence. :)

You'll learn. ;)

[eyesroll]

6. We've only touched on negligence, so yeah...I've got a long way to go...

I did spend a good amount of time at the grocery store deciding that the objective standard (in any legal context -- torts, contracts, whatever) really does require a suspension of disbelief. It's really the *ideal* standard -- ideally, a reasonable person would believe X, but many many people suck and some of them are going to end up on a jury.

[Floogeldy]

7. I see.

"But many many people suck and some of them are going to end up on a jury."

And it is going to be your job to educate them. ;)