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The Cheesewhore Chronicles
Equal Justice?

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I'm learning a lot about the practical side of lawyering.

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he could try stabbing them in the back and using the experience to get a job as a secretary.

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They're starting me off slow. I'm only eating single mothers and disabled senior citizens so far.

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Let us know when you embrace the Dark Side.

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We had a rather interesting client come in the other day. She quit her job at a convenience store because she got tired of having customers call her a stupid white bitch (and other variations on the same general idea). She claims she had two hundred such comments during a single six-hour shift, so she was about to have a nervous breakdown, so she quit. Then she wanted unemployment. She got denied because she quit and her reason wasn't considered "good cause," which is pretty obvious. You work at a convenience store, you deal with angry customers. Part of the job. Anyway, she appeals, and appeals, and appeals. Finally she comes to us, sits down, pulls out some crochet stuff, and tells us the whole story while fiddling with the crochet stuff. Then she says, "I don't have a case, do I?" Our attorney explained as nicely as he could that, no, she didn't have a case as far as unemployment goes, but she might have a case against her employer (for something, I forget what), but we can't take that case because it's potentially fee-generating. She stood up and started screaming at our attorney and me about nobody being willing to take on this company and all sorts of other random stuff. When she finally left, the attorney in the office across the hall came over and asked what that was about. He said he half-expected her to try to stab us with her crochet needles.

On the flip side, we had a guy call us the other day about some visitation or something. I'm not entirely certain since I didn't work on the case. What I did hear, however, was that he suffered from seizures a couple times a day, was diabetic, and his wife had walked out on him in the middle of one of his seizures. He wasn't getting SSI disability for some reason. He was supposed to get food stamps, but the card kept getting lost in the mail. He can't drive anywhere because of the seizures. His power had been cut off, and he got water from a well, so couldnt' get any of that once the power was cut off. The only reason he wasn't on the streets was because his wife's parents owned the house and let him stay. He hadn't eaten in 3-4 days, and apparently only survived thanks to a neighbor lady who brought him a meal about twice a week. The attorney managed to hook him up with daily meals on wheels, and he's currently working on getting a few other charity programs to help him get his power and water back on. Sometimes it's pretty cool to see what we can do for our clients. And this is before we've even been able to start working on the case he called us about.

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I do meals on wheels. It's cool. This one house has a killer dog. It chased me once.
It wants Filipinomeat.

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