- It's about jury selection.
- The lady sitting beside me has orange hair.
- A gal in front of me has the thickest country accent you've ever heard (and that's coming from me.)
- Criminal defense lawyers' are a motley crew.
- You can't go to a seminar without hearing how unfair Williamson County is.
- I'm the only one here from Wise County.
- There are two hot women in this room.
- I had to sign a statement that (1) I practiced criminal law and was not a prosecutor, and (2) I wouldn't distribute the materials.
- They had fresh fruit for breakfast.
- I'm keeping a list of things I've learned that I didn't know. (So far, I've got two. But it's early.)
- Lisa Blue is a speaker. (She's the recent widow of big time Democratic money man Fred Baron.) Edit: She just showed the dumbest movie clip of a trial scene I've ever seen. It was so obscure I have no idea what movie it was from. Edit #2: Good lord, she just talked about how proud she was to work under former Dallas DA Henry Wade. Trust me, in this crowd, that doesn't impress us. Edit #3: She's done. She had no business speaking at a criminal law seminar.
- I never wear my name tag at a seminar.
- Lunch is catered by Campisi's!!!! Pic (which doesn't show the garlic shrimp dish.)
- Just heard one of the hot girls on the phone. "We're thinking about doing an HH in the West Village later." Being bilingual and speaking a little Navajo, I think she's referring to a "happy hour."
- War stories from lawyers whip me. They never talk about their losses, do they?
- The HH girl has a raspy voice, is Catholic, is a public defender, a cusser, and kinda funny. She was complaining that one of her difficult court appointed clients had told her he wanted a "real lawyer." She said she was going to bring a "Criminal Law For Dummies" book to his trial to get back at him.
- Huge debate going on on whether it is unethical or improper to do the following legendary trick: During jury selection in a drug possession case, to have a potential juror reach under her seat to find a packet of cigarettes (or other prop) that you had placed there earlier (in order to demonstrate you can be in close proximity of something but not know it was there.) I really don't have a problem with that. One lawyer in the room claimed he got chewed out by a judge for doing it.
- We've got chaos breaking out with the following ethical hypo: Your client comes in, says he shot his wife with "this gun", puts it on your desk, and walks out. What do you do?
- Hot chick slipped out early.
- A lady beside me just made reference to a Wise County lawyer by name. I didn't chime in.
- A friend, knowing I was in a seminar, sent me an email. When I opened it, it had a very dirty word in two inch type. The sender thought that would be funny when I opened it up in a crowd.
- There's one lawyer in here who won't shut up. He needs to shut up.
- I wonder if the hot girl went to happy hour at 2:30?
- I failed to mention she was about four inches taller than me.
- Of all my many bad stock picks, I'm glad I don't own Citigroup today.
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