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Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers
An anonymous reader writes "Google is at daggers end with a law firm it's been using since 2008, after discovering that lawyers in the law firm, named Pepper Hamilton LLP, were representing a patent licensing business that sued Google's Android partners last month. Google has claimed that Pepper Hamilton LLP never provided notice that it was hired by Digitude Innovations LLC, the firm that filed patent infringement complaints against Google's business allies."
We're talking lawyers here.
A bullet may have your name on it, but artillery is addressed to " Whom It May concern"
But the conflict occurred while the file was already open!
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There's no conflict; the lawyer's interests are perfectly consistent.
Plus, they were probably using Windows Notepad, which almost never seems to be deterred by that sort of thing when it opens a file. It's like it has...connections...
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
A perfect example from Schlock Mercenary, back when the art was bad, but the writing was amazing. Today the writing is still amazing, and so is the art.
Odd choice of captcha - buttocks.
That sounds like lawyer talk. GET A ROPE!
Well put.
Personally, I've found my opinion of lawyers is concisely stated in this quote from Henry Peter Brougham, a British Lord, statesman, and, yes, lawyer:
"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."
Or paraphrasing a friend going through a divorce:
Seeing my lawyer has all the all the discomfort of a dental procedure, all the frustration of a visit to the DMV, and all the aggrivation of a cell phone bill. Except I don't get anything as useful as a root canal, a drivers licence, or a cell phone. I just get the promise of another visit in a month.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
No - but it should be!
A lawyer does not work for only one client at time. While one case is waiting to go to trial or have papers typed, the lawyer can work on another case. If she has enough clients, the lawyer will never be idle for lack of work. (Idle lawyers tend to become politicians, so there is a certain social value in keeping lawyers busy.)
Silberschatz, Galvin & Gagne, Operating System Concepts
Not so much a profession as as a psychological disorder
First, there's no history of violence against lawyers. There's never been (to my knowledge) a lawyer genocide,
When you point things like that out, it really makes me depressed about the nature of humanity and society.
I mean... why the hell not?!