Posted on 10/13/2022 10:02:15 AM PDT by PBRCat
There are growing indications that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) is struggling to fill vacancies, as approximately 20% of employees have resigned since last summer.
CCSAO is so short-staffed that supervisors are assigning prospective attorneys who have not yet passed the bar to handle duties typically conducted by assistant state’s attorneys—like presenting allegations during bail hearings at Chicago’s criminal courthouse.
No one wants to work they just want to be tik tok stars
Or they just want to bang on the drum all day.
Grounds for dismissal and or appeal in every case, which may be the plan. It’s also illegal to represent yourself as an attorney if you have not passed the bar and maintain your license to practice law.
Haha yeah ...can’t blame them there.
I admit that I don't know how all these people still manage to put food on the table -- but a lot of businesses are still trying to hire (often at low wages, to be sure). But I continue to believe that our society has a massive problem with poor management.
Some of that problem is "woke" stuff coming from HR. But a lot of people in "management" do not know how to manage anything. They have no people skills. They have no project management skills. What I have seen is that people can rise up strictly through political skill. Which often really means bullying.
If one boss is a bully, and if you attach yourself to the bully and help the bully, you too can rise up. Yay! Now there are more bullies in the management layer!
Think of any important Democrat. Especially Democrat women. Do they have any skills? Any accomplishments? Mostly No. They just yell at people until things get better. And if things don't get better, they blame someone else.
No one wants to work for a boss like that. And I think a certain number of people have decided that working at McDonald's may be a preferable path.
Prosecutors in Cook Co don’t actually do anything, so the hiring standards can be relaxed.
The most important advantage a prosecutor typically has, aside from abundant staff, is that they have tried whatever case it is countless times, day in and day out. As a prosecutor once said to me after I complemented him on how well he tried a burglary case I was defending, “Well, if you do the same thing several hundred times, you get good at it.” With law students prosecuting, the tables are turned since they enjoy no such depth of experience over defense counsel.
This isn't about people not wanting to work. This is about avoiding the "criminal justice" system . Who has the heart to go in every day, see the crimes of the worst of society, and be told to let the perps go?
It's one of those fields that tips; once manning drops below a certain number, it's time to bolt for the exits.
It's also about pay and compensation. People who previously would have gone into some of these fields now go anywhere but. It's also a field that can't be outsourced. Other industries can augment their staff with contractors, both in country and overseas. Can't outsource a prosecutor although they're coming close here.
Soon only complete idiots and/or criminals and/or traitors will be working at the Cook County States Attorney’s Office.
Why bother?
Well I was licensed to practice on Alderaan, but the Death Star blew up the planet and all my records.
Trust me.
Cook County has already scraped the bottom of the barrel for the elected prosecutor.
That is quite true also of defense attorneys. And so, often times, one can do very well with a court appointed attorney.
I acquired trial experience as a 3L in municipal court prosecuting misdemeanors. The judge called it “sand box” court, but the issues and juries were real.
Lawyers are a dime a dozen. Heavy oversupply in the country. You know you have a crappy DA’s office if you cannot some of them to come off of unemployment line to work for you.
Lawyers are a dime a dozen. Heavy oversupply in the country. You know you have a crappy DA’s office if you cannot some of them to come off of unemployment line to work for you.
Court appointed counsel can sometimes be quite good, especially in the Federal system where they are relatively well paid. About ten years ago, I was before a panel at the 4th Circuit on a civil appeal. The case being heard before mine was a criminal matter being argued by a court appointed counsel. The issue was whether a drug sniffing dog had a sufficient track record of success to establish probable cause for a search. Apparently, this particular dog was not very good, and the panel was being asked to decide if a 60 or 70% false positive rate was good enough. Counsel was better prepared to argue his particular case than almost anyone else in that room, including the justices and their clerks. I was impressed, and so was the panel who complemented and thanked him effusively at the end of his presentation.
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