[rollei_list] Re: OT: A Bit About Myself
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:24:31 -0400
At 11:00 PM 4/28/2010, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
>I am impressed! The only really prestigious school that I attended was
>the Bronx HS of Science.
>
>I have been told that I would have made a lousy lawyer, I never learned
>to bluff or prevaricate. I calls 'em as I sees 'em!
Well, on the first point, the Bronx HS of Science
speaks buckets about you and your depth of
knowledge. That is one really fine school.
Hmm. Lawyers represent clients and do the best
job possible in presenting their client's
cases. It can be a matter of grand humor or a
matter of deep horror, but it is a career based
on the understanding of the law and its
procedures. I do not regret my quarter of a
century as an attorney, and I do not regret
having retired in 2006 -- my professional life
was always a narrow race between the ethics folks
and the creditors and the IRS and the mental
health guys, and I was lucky to get out with my
life. I had a nasty bit with the State Bar after
I retired and I finally just told them to take my
license, as I was retired -- it was over a matter
of accountancy, and they had me dead to rights,
as I just had not taken proper care of attending
to details. I was so burned out by the time I
retired that I have never billed the State for
the final $15,000 or so owed me for condemnation
work I did for VDOT. I look at those files from
time to time, and never pick one up. A former
secretary who lives locally will process them but
I doubt that the State will pay them after all these years.
Another former secretary e-mailed me earlier
today to ask about a case I had argued before the
Virginia Court of Appeals in 1990. Damn! I
remember the case -- I won, and the rule of the
case was that a mother being incarcerated, absent
anything else, was not grounds to permit
termination of parental rights. But I do not
recall the name of the case. I did remind her
that she probably had the brief on the office
computer I had given her when I retired, and that
the current Mayor of Roanoke was the Guardian ad
litem and might recall the case, as he lost it big time.
Even though I have not had a license for years, I
am required to maintain files for five
years. Well, come JUL 2011, I will be burning
the lot of them -- and I have a MASS of files --
in my back-yard. You all are invited to the
world's largest weenie roast and perloo
gathering, details to follow -- I might even
host you teuchters to some steamed crab, an East
Coast delicacy. Then I will have storage space
freed up to allow me to recreate my dark
room. But, at the moment, my attic eaves are
growing weary with the weight of all these files ...
<he grins> Life has been very good to me. Never explain, never complain.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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