Scott Wiser

I'm married to the most awesome wife/mom in the world. Five wonderful kids. Family lawyer. Reagan Republican. Go Utes! Standard disclaimers.

[Scott Wiser @scottwiser]

@DanDeuel There's the right way, the wrong way, and the government way.

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

Working from home is walking downstairs to get another Diet Coke while my wife battles my unruly children.

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

"This year, you've visited your ministering families precisely 0 times. Is that correct?"

Me:

[John @MrJohnHooper]

Guys, I’m starting to think they lied to us about the LED light bulbs lasting 10,000 hours.

[Eli Albrecht @Elialbrecht]

When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:

Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."

First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.

On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."

Not one of the 18 is Jewish.

Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.

It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.

Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.

On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.

My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.

We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.

In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.

No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.

To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.

But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.

The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.

If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.

[nonrevgod @nonrevgod]

Me, at an airport bar watching my standby position go from #2 to #18 during a thunderstorm

[Bill Ables, Esq. @lawyer_humor]

There is a specific font size that induces mild vertigo if stared at for more than an hour.

It is exactly 10.5-point Garamond with a 1.15 line spacing.

I make the 1st-years use it for all initial drafts of our standard NDA.

One of them complained last week that the text was physically vibrating off his monitor.

I told him that was just the sensation of learning the law.

He asked if we could switch to Times New Roman, just for the internal review.

I asked him if he wanted me to hold his hand while he billed his 8 hours, too.

By Friday, he was wearing blue-light glasses and blinking at a frequency I can only describe as rhythmic.

I finally approved the draft.

Then I had him convert the final PDF to 11-point Arial, completely destroying his formatting.

Typography is the purest form of psychological conditioning.

[Scott Wiser @scottwiser]

@DanDeuel I’m going off on a limb and assuming their target audience is not folks who already know how to prompt AI to teach them the course. Some folks are still looking for the “any” key on their keyboard.

[Scott Wiser @scottwiser]

@gopTODD

[Scott Wiser @scottwiser]

@EODHappyCaptain Just when we thought you were skilled at disarming explosive devices. :)

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

"I'm gonna give him a fast offering he can't refuse."

[Scott Wiser @scottwiser]

@KimballCall

[Kimball Call @KimballCall]

I am *this* close to starting a Candace Owens themed t-shirt line and selling them outside BYU football games. I'd make a killing.

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

me when I don’t have the independent legal authority

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

Me: call me to discuss
Me: call me to discuss
Me: call me to discuss by tomorrow morning or I'll just file a proposed order

OC: no response

Me: here's a proposed order since OC never got back to me

OC: how dare you

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

There are 9 living former British PMs now. We should turn them into Nazgûl.

Tony Blair can be the Witch King.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Choosing a wife is the most important decision a man will make.

Check out my article below and share with the single men in your life.

[Scott Wiser @scottwiser]

@OnDisasters

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

The gaslighting is real