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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Love Your Lawyer Day! 11/6/2015.
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.  |
Kind of to me too. Many people consider me a lawyer just because I have a JD.
I had a good friend in Reno, Nevada-- Mildred Johnson-- who was born on 1900. She used to tell her husband-- a mail carrier-- who had desired to be a lawyer that she would divorce him if he did as she did not want someone who lied all day coming homing to her and then continuing with the lying. Lawyers do omit and spin stuff a great deal in my experience with them but then again so do sales people, politicians, and some others.
Mildred was ecstatic when I dropped out of Law School at BYU in 1982 but I kind of lost track of her after heading to the University of Denver to get a MA in Librarianship and Information Management in 1984 but got bit again by the Law Bug when reading various Law Review articles being indexed by people at the Information Access Company where I worked in 1984-1986 as a business abstractor primarily on Business Area Databank. Then went back to Law School at the University of Minnesota. The business abstracting did really help as most of the curriculum at that law school was business oriented-- Antitrust, Securities, Corporations, Accounting for Lawyers, Commercial Paper, Torts, etc. I did thumb through Victimology stuff too indexed by the Legal Resource Index people at Information Access Company. The IAC people showed up too-- the marketing department-- at some of the Summer Annual Law Librarian conventions I went to like the one in Reno, Nevada in 1989 and the San Francisco one in 1992.
Mildred's son was a Reno police officer so I could follow the Michelle Mitchell 2-24-1976 murder investigation through him from whatever scuttlebutt he heard. Or at least, I think that is how that went. Some of the memories from the 1970s are little foggy in the details.
One little detail about Information Access Company. My chief editor-- Robert Lee-- at Information Access Company would often allow my puns in the Area Business Databank abstracts I would write. He did groan a lot about them.