tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227746770847349075.post5718069877386276121..comments2024-03-25T10:42:07.958-04:00Comments on BAD LAWYER: This Week on Bad LawyerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227746770847349075.post-67741246238801966852010-02-03T10:38:20.976-05:002010-02-03T10:38:20.976-05:00Bad Lawyer, or BL as we've come to know him, r...Bad Lawyer, or BL as we've come to know him, regularly presents examples of how easily bad can develop in almost all of us. The challenge is transforming the bad into good. It's also interesting to observe how many of us have difficuly finding the good within. <br /><br />To anon above, your orig post sounded pretty cranky. Must've been having a bad day. Good for you.okiedokenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227746770847349075.post-44258725203336235202010-02-02T03:17:52.076-05:002010-02-02T03:17:52.076-05:00This is the poster whose comment spurred this entr...This is the poster whose comment spurred this entry by BL. I am fascinated by, and greatly helped by, what BL has offered in the past: showing how a solo/small practice litigator in an American city can end up totally twisted around without seemingly even expecting that he was headed that way. I myself am ten years or so into a practice that is no so dissimilar, and the cautionary tale that BL offers is truly valuable to me. Personally and professionally, I am helped by BL's exposition of how he got where he is and I respect him very much for his efforts.<br /><br />I have re-read my comment from this weekend and agree that its tone is overly harsh, but I stand by the message contained in it. And I take him at his word that BL found that comment to be useful, even if not comforting.<br /><br />Younger, Hopefully Not-Too-Bad-LawyerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227746770847349075.post-27403112619967794222010-02-01T20:36:32.551-05:002010-02-01T20:36:32.551-05:00I am sticking up for you, yes. But I also lament w...I am sticking up for you, yes. But I also lament what this kind of comment symptomatizes, culturally. A collective (because this kind of thing is ubiquitous) refusal to take responsibility for one's own discourse, to back up one's opinions with ideas or constructive thoughts. We've become a society of opinions with precious few ideas. Opinions are cheap--they are rotgut whiskey in a paper bag. Ideas are, by contrast, the water of life. So I guess I have a personal aversion to this kind of thing.<br />But you should cut yourself some slack, too. I've seen a lot of evil sh** in this world, and you, my friend, are not it.Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02386287173627131778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227746770847349075.post-43533804834302019232010-02-01T19:33:35.129-05:002010-02-01T19:33:35.129-05:00You are so kind, Gayle--but that anonymous comment...You are so kind, Gayle--but that anonymous comment was right on. I didn't take offense and it was a spur to speak frankly about what I need to tell, as I promised that I would, the full Hell of disgrace and dishonor, and is there anything left afterwards. In the last 72 hours my life has been a wild roller coaster with much love and much pain--and if I can hang a story to tell. How rare is it that someone goes what I may go through and can relate the quotidian sensations? I lived to advocate and it has been taken away from me, my pride, and we shall see maybe more.<br /><br />But thanks for sticking up for me, I'm honored to have you as a friend.<br /><br />BLAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04259536411307951411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227746770847349075.post-9048767363189690872010-02-01T17:29:10.421-05:002010-02-01T17:29:10.421-05:00I find anonymous comments that seek only to dispar...I find anonymous comments that seek only to disparage, gratuitously and personally criticize, and generally let one know that "I anonymous, find you to be unworthy simply because I can" to be utterly dishonorable. I realize that honor is an archaic vestige of some paleozoic era when people knew how to behave, and, more important, had the courage to stand behind their words. Nevertheless I think the Bad Lawyer is trying to find and thereby restore his own lost honor. I find this to be a noble undertaking. "Anonymous" and all his/her invisible brethren, should be ignored until he/she has the honor and (self-) respect to offer both a name and a constructive comment. In other words, sometimes the Internet sucks.Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02386287173627131778noreply@blogger.com