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Disclaimer: I'm a lawyer.

Listen to the last five (5) seconds of this commercial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDaT1hnDlw

He's saying that his law firm "is now the universe's largest injury law firm". 

So the question is, which law firm was previously the largest? Or, how does he know that? Is there a universe-wide Bar association? Can I hire somebody in Jupiter or Alpha Centauri?

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34 minutes ago, Ricordo said:

Disclaimer: I'm a lawyer.

Listen to the last five (5) seconds of this commercial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDaT1hnDlw

He's saying that his law firm "is now the universe's largest injury law firm". 

So the question is, which law firm was previously the largest? Or, how does he know that? Is there a universe-wide Bar association? Can I hire somebody in Jupiter or Alpha Centauri?

Only a lawyer would ask these questions.  :wink:

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While we're at it, this is how I became a lawyer. One day my sister visits me and says that she had applied for admittance to law school. Then she states, "why don't you apply?". A couple of weeks later, I did.

Here's the catch. Due to my 15 Incomplete Fs in my GPA, even though I had scored quite well in both entrance exams, my ultimate admission score did not qualify by a couple of points. A couple of years later a law school professor told me the story behind the story. The admissions committee had met to review my case and voted to lower the score so that I could get in. By doing that, another person above my score also qualified. 

But it goes beyond that. After I made the decision to apply for admission,  but before I was admitted, I received an offer from the university's  US representative/agent (also a professor there) that the US government wanted to send me to  Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to get a Master's and/or Doctorate, all expenses paid, in exchange for five (5) years of government work. I told him that I was planning to go to law school and he replied, "Oh, we'll pay for that too!".

I never found out if my subsequent admission and offer received were related. Probably they were, I figger.

Btw, one the last names of the US representative/agent was Christian (RIP). Distant relative of him of "Mutiny on the Bounty"  fame. We got along real well. :)

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An attorney was working late one night in his office when, suddenly, Satan appeared before him. The Devil made him an offer. “I will make it so you win every case that you try for the rest of your life. Your clients will worship you, your colleagues will be in awe, and you will make enormous amounts of money. But, in return, you must give me your soul, your wife’s soul, the souls of your children, your parents, grandparents, and those of all the your friends.” The lawyer thought about it for a moment, then asked, “But what’s the catch?”

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Well, I never set out to be a lawyer.  Spent 25 years in radio and television.  Got tired of being laid off, so I went back to school to become a pharmacist.  Came out a lawyer.  No idea what happened.  God must have had a hand in it.

After 4 years of bouncing around, wound up working for a city.  Retired after 16 years three years ago with a livable pension.  Prosecuted a lot of cases in municipal court.  Won more than I lost, but I never tried a case that I didn’t think needed trying.  Let a lot go.  My call.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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1 hour ago, DAKA said:

I think it got much worse years ago when they allowed lawyers to advertise,,,,Jacoby and Meyers in NY back then..

Ambulance chasing has long been a tradition, and has no doubt justly benefited some injured people. But with giant billboards along all expressways…

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8 hours ago, railfancwb said:

Ambulance chasing has long been a tradition, and has no doubt justly benefited some injured people. But with giant billboards along all expressways…

"MY LAWYER  (insert name) GOT ME 843 MILLION DOLLARS"  (slight exaggeration)  

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Just a fun fact, over 30 years as an ER nurse I've dealt with maybe a half dozen lawyers. Some called me asking for (free) help, or patients for whom the discharge instructions need to be altered for employment considerations. In each case they would answer me reluctantly  about their career choices. Surprisingly, I never saw one gunshot in the butt.

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