Real Lawyer Reacts to UNPROFESSIONAL Memes

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[eswanso]

Me, a 3L taking finals: "lemme watch this lighthearted video to lighten the mood a bit"

Devin: "Yeah the bar exam really does sap up every ounce of your will to live"

[sydneybrown]

I’m not a lawyer, but him talking about the bar exam brings back terrible memories of taking my medical school boards. Totally broke, stressed out of my mind, trying to get through multiple steps of boards (that we pay for on our own though all of them aside from the first one are totally unnecessary and are purely for the NBME to make money) to go into a field that we desperately need people in but are essentially discouraged from doing so

[wslaxmiddy]

I got $4k from a class action against my former employer. Lawyers got $70k but I could care less I literally signed two papers and they did all the work I never went to court it was completely worth

[thrownswordpommel]

"I wish "motion to strike" meant I get to punch opposing counsel in the face"
Some lawyer guy on Tumblr

[tommiegirl]

Hearing the words "It do be like that sometimes" from a lawyer/Georgetown law professor who wears Indochino in the streets and preaches the gospel of Oxford commas - stuff like that there is the reason I love this channel. Good show, Devin!

[jamesonyates]

"Now that the American government is boring again. Well, at least from a legal perspective."


And The Supreme Court took that personally.

[SimpaticoReal]

My favorite part was the text exchange with the judge, when the judge just instantly responded with "lol disbarred"

[thesmithersy]

If you think probate can't last for decades, look up the case of *Jennens v Jennens* in English law. It lasted 117 years before it was dropped because the estate ran out of money fighting it.

[pranav]

Devin: "now that our government is boring again"

Supreme Court: "say no more"

[Faranya]

Not a lawyer, but the Oxford comma bit reminded me of it: doing technical documents at work when I started, my boss was reviewing a draft and pointed out that sentences should be preceded by two spaces. I told him that was an antiquated style convention and not necessary. He told me to do it anyway. I just didn't, and it's been nearly 10 years and I feel vindicated in that he's apparently either not noticed or come around to my view on things. Not going to ask for clarity though.

[mwmulv]

Technical writer here. Glad to hear support for the Oxford comma.

[Mister-Bones]

My cousin is a lawyer and I don't see her all that often, but when I do I ALWAYS make sure that we watch some Legal meme review, and she cracks up every time. She really enjoys your channel and it makes her visits that much more enjoyable

[babysleepysheepyrainbow]

My grandmother went to law school for most of my middle childhood, therefore most of my legal knowledge comes from her. I will never not be mad about the time she was 1 point away from passing the bar.

[Astraeus..]

Had no clue what "Oxford comma" was until I looked it up. My grandmother was an English teacher, I was just taught that this was the proper way to use a series of commas that separate a list of items. IIRC the explanation that made it simple was this; without the final comma it can give the impression that those final 2 items form a pair. If I were to say I need to go visit Dave, Shelby, Megan and Nick. If I don't use the final comma it seems like Megan and Nick are a pair.

[HLMZSMBL]

I did not get most of the jokes but I find it funny when Devin tries to explain and laughs at the jokes 😂

[SourGir]

"Some of those partners don't use the Oxford comma. They're wrong. They should be ostracized." Truer words were never spoken. How can people like that live with themselves? I'll never understand.

[williamharris]

7:41 -- I am one of those rare creatures who attended Law School but who never wrote the bar exam. I realized by third-year that I had no desire to practice. I have subsequently landed two permanent positions where the law degree is an asset but not a requirement. This is not a career track that I would recommend (chance played a big role), but there are other options than being a lawyer.

[Patricia-b]

The way he used harvey as an example that tv shows way too many trials and not enough settlements, being that harvey's whole schtick is that he never goes to trial, he settles, had me in stitches.

[thajocoth]

4:29 - To add to your point about missing Oxford commas being dangerous: There was a legal document... (I forget if it was at the federal or state level. It might've been medicare/medicaid related, so it was probably federal.) that lacked an Oxford comma in a list of kinds of care to each receive a specified annual budget. Because there was no comma between the last two elements of the list, it was ruled that the two are sharing one budget. One of the two was Speech Language Pathology and the other was... I think it might've been Occupational Therapy? Or possibly Physical Therapy? I forget which exactly. The ruling clearly goes against the document's original intent, but it's been a big problem for nursing homes as a result who can't provide full proper care to their residents.

A partner of mine is a speech language pathologist who used to work in nursing homes, so it's through her that I'm aware of this fact. One might think "What do nursing home residents need with speech therapy?", but one of the things an SLP does is help with swallowing disorders, something far more common among the elderly. She was deciding things like what consistencies of food were safe for which residents. And the budgets for this essentially got slashed in half by a judge many years ago, all because of one missing Oxford comma.

(She now has her own practice, primarily as a gender-affirming voice therapist, so she no longer works in nursing homes.)

Before knowing about this, I thought Oxford commas didn't matter. I now ALWAYS use Oxford commas.

[Highfalutinloyd]

A profession whose catchphrase could be, "It depends." Also that profession, "Don't go to law school unless you're 100% sure you want to be a lawyer."