Lawyer Faints Under Brutal Barrage From Judges

New York Lawyer ^ | October 13, 2005 | Mike McKee

[inquest]

I guess that settles it. The court has jurisdiction.

[Numbers Guy]

Judges taking the side of trial lawyers. That's so shocking, no wonder why he fainted [/sarcasm]

[martin_fierro]

Shades of moot court!

[martin_fierro]

PWN3D!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"His legs buckled and he fell backward, hitting his head hard on the floor."

I thought when one fainted, one falls forward.

[PAR35]

From your comment, we can conclude that you are an ambulance chasing platintiff's attorney.

[RTINSC]

The judges had him down on his knees, apparently..

[Thud]

Joe Alioto, former mayor of San Francisco, was one of the truly outstanding trial lawyers in California history. He gave Marv Klein, (or whoever was then owner of the San Diego Chargers and then president of the National Football League), a fatal heart attack during cross-examination while representing Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders in an anti-trust trial against the NFL. Davis gave Alioto a high five after the jury was excused, while paramedics were still trying to revive Klein in the witness box.

The model for the professor in The Paper Chase was Richard Powell (who wrote Powell on Property, etc. He taught at Hastings College of the Law following mandatory retirement from Columbia (Hastings has a program of hiring such professors called the Over-65 Club).

And boy, was Powell mean. They wouldn't let him teach first year students after his first course, because he could make them puke at their desks. So he taught only Deeds, Trusts, Wills & Estates, which he had originated as a single course at Columbia Law School early in the last century.

Powell became a Hastings institution - you weren't a real student unless you survived his class. And I had him in his next to last year at Hastings.

The last question on my bar exam was a probate question. I KNEW I had aced it due to learning Everything in Powell's fear-motivated class. So I wrote one last sentence after the timer went off. A proctor came over to glare at me for doing so, then gave me a grin when I showed him the last sentence:

Long Live Richard R. Powell!

[fullchroma]

First District Court of Appeal Justices Carol Corrigan and Stuart Pollak had verbally hammered Olson for several minutes when he apparently fainted

Several minutes of questioning? Is that all it took to take him down? He obviously didn't grow up with my relentless mother.

[decal]

"His legs buckled and he fell backward, hitting his head hard on the floor..."

I was under the impression that when one faints, one falls FORWARD.

Not necessarily so?

[Blue Screen of Death]

Is Dick your name or your description?

[beaver fever]

"Excuse me your honor, I'd like to make a motion to adjour..."..........CLANG!!!!!

[RATkiller]

To think up arguments to counter the judges' barrage he needed to pump more blood to his brain which required a large heart which him being a lawyer and all ...

[Sam the Sham]

When you have the law but not the facts...

pound the law.

When you have the facts but not the law...

pound the facts.

When you have neither....

hit the floor.

[jiggyboy]

Nope, backwards. Seen it, done it.

[paul51]

I hope to hell you never, NEVER need a lawyer

Lawyers have been fairly successful at making sure that can't happen

[HKMk23]

Reminds me of that line from the dialog between Venkman and the Mayor in "Ghostbusters".