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To: EDINVA
A competent legal secretary was actually worth more to the firm than an inexperienced law school grad.

Thank you....because just the other day I had to stop a first-year "I went to Stanford" idiot from calendaring an answer to a federal complaint as due in 30 days when it was in fact due in 20 (answers in Cali state court are due in 30). IWTS lawwyer insisted what the heck did I know, did I go to law school?? I loved opening up the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to Rule 12 and sticking it under his nose and saying "READ Sparky..."

37 posted on 01/26/2009 2:11:19 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Right Cal Gal

I told ya so !!!!! Wonderful story.

Way back in the day when I was a legal secy one of the young lawyers complained to the top dude that I was making more than he was ... and the sr. partner replied: she’s worth more to me than you are! next.


41 posted on 01/26/2009 2:18:34 PM PST by EDINVA
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