also I feel a little guilty because this is me in the family chat during the game πΉ
Iβve been a Dore since 1989 itβs been a looooong time coming
Thereβs something comforting about knowing that my boy is spending his sophomore year @VanderbiltU in a dorm that looks exactly the way it did when I was there 34 years ago. ππ€
BREAKING: President Biden and Vice President Harris have secured the release of U.S. Marine, Paul Whelan, and Wall Street Journalist, Evan Gershkovich, from Russian captivity. This is huge.
Speaking of women w/o children, you may think that they have workplace advantages similar to men, but they do not. They experience:
-"Maybe baby" bias
-"Do more" bias
-"Pay less" bias
-"Never quite right" bias
Read my & leannedz's new @harvardbiz article.
hbr.org/2024/07/how-biases-aβ¦
2 - @Delta, reimburse me what it cost to get home. Because you couldn't get me there, and you know you couldn't. I was booked in Delta One. I'm Gold status, would be Platinum after this flight (but for the fact that you canceled my return flight). You couldn't get me home.
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A must-read for all lawyers.
If we fail to act on this data, we don't deserve the monopoly we enjoy.
(Past behavior alone should disqualify us from the monopoly, tbh.)
For any lawyer who sleeps easy at night thinking that our regulatory structure exists to "protect the public," please read this article and understand the rotten roots of our protectionism.
Shame on us.
bit.ly/4diTVIJ
"we show that the present-day access-to-justice crisisβa crisis that dooms the vast majority of Americans to navigate complex legal processes without any expert assistanceβisnβt a product of inattention or inertia. The crisis was, rather, constructed by the legal profession
Lawyers control who gets legal help. 100%
Lawyers help resolve only 8% of legal problems experienced by poor Americans.
80% of people who have a legal problem get NO help from a lawyer.
TBH, how we can carry on this farce is beyond me.
Utter failure. All on our watch.
"(3) perhaps most startlingly, the barβs ban on UPL, which continues to block the effective delivery of affordable legal services, was fashioned not out of a desire to protect the public but, rather, grew out of the barβs self-interest.
In other words: The ban on nonlawyer assistance that, many believe, fuels our current and calamitous access-to-justice crisis, has thoroughly rotten roots."