On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:03:45 -0500, T >
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>If you ever want to work with hard drinking people, you need to work
>with cops and prosecutors. Seriously, before I worked for the state AG
>I'd drink every now and then. Once I got there every week I was knocking
>them back at the local watering hole with them. My liver was pretty well
>pickled after a couple of years there.

Litigation will do that to you. I'm a litigation paralegal and when I
first moved to SoCal and was looking for a new job, I "temped," which
is a good way to test the waters, learn a new state's litigation rules
and generally learn the local legal culture/law firms. I worked for my
(present) boss on a big appellate brief that had us both just slammed.
His then-paralegal hadn't been with him long, was dead useless (as I
learned later) and had called in sick when this appellate brief was
due within hours. We were just going crazy - him trying to compose the
brief and me trying to get up to speed with the facts of the case,
pull the brief into reasonable form and learn a new computer system,
all at once. (Thank God it was in federal court, where I already knew
the rules!)

We eFiled that sucker at 11:45 p.m. I was collapsed at my computer and
Paul was collapsed in my client chair. He just looked at me and said,
"You want a shot of some really nice single malt I have in my desk?" I
just weakly nodded. We made a good dent in that bottle while chatting
and getting to know each other (taxis got us both home). He fired his
paralegal the next day and I've been with him for nearly 7 years now.
And I still get the occasional shot of single malt at the end of a
particularly trying day and we've even added a Grey Goose martini
station in the office fridge. The DH is a litigation lawyer, too,
with an office nearby. He knows where the single malt and Grey Goose
is, too :-)

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines


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