Litigation is wild because you show up every day to do your job and at the same time there is another person who also shows up to their job every day whose job is to actively prevent you from doing your job. And people wonder why lawyers are stressed out.
It’s Juneteenth AND reparations.
It’s Juneteenth AND end police violence + the War on Drugs.
It’s Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid.
It’s Juneteenth AND teach the truth about white supremacy in our country.
Black liberation must be prioritized.
@RileeDHarrison Showed up on behalf of another lawyer only to find the judge furious that other lawyer hadn't shown up. The judge yelled at me and I took it like a champ.
What they don't tell you in law school: some days, this job is literally just a cycle of reading an email and responding to it, and then clicking out to discover that 3 more emails have arrived to answer. It's like fighting an army of mini-hydras.
It’s been a week and I’m still thinking about what my 14-yo son said when I asked him how he goes about achieving success:
“Doing the bare minimum required for the result needed.”
The boy is a straight A, top of class, scholarship student. Something important is going on here: