I'm sad about Kuma. Especially because Kat writing that a picture of Chile Pepper with her head between the seats, peering at me as I put groceries into the back of the car, was a spitting image of a shot she had of Kuma. It was our bonding moment. xoxoxo

BTW, my pet peeve for 2013:

people who end their email messages with: "please excuse any typos, I'm on a ___ phone"

Well guess fucking what? I don't give a shit. If your email is not an emergency and worth my time to read, double-check it and re-read. This ain't twitter, this is my email.

what's the minimum required to practice law?

Specifically, that's a state-by-state question. Generally, graduation from an ABA approved program, passing the state bar exam, a fitness & character review, being sworn in, and then paying dues to the state bar to maintain your membership, and then participating in continuing legal education throughout your career. CA, doesn't have the ABA approved requirement, but you have to take extra exams to practice. Practicing law is a pretty low thresh hold - offering advice on what they should do, filling in a legal form, holding yourself out as an attorney.

In most jurisdictions my NY Law degree and bar membership doesn't mean anything - I have to take their bar and join their bar and jump through their hoops. Most jurisdictions won't recognize a foreign law degree, even from a commonwealth country, but there are exceptions. NY, if I remember correctly, would allow you to take the bar if you'd graduated from U. Toronto or UBC (the graduate, not undergraduate programs). Some jurisdictions will allow you to take the bar with your foreign degree if you get an American LLM.

Redress for pretenders depends on what they did and who they were - someone might be disciplined by the bar association or by bringing a criminal or civil lawsuit or all of the above.

In conclusion: It all depends.

Scrappy, I love the USA profile on your DH! He looks like he leads a cool, adventuresome life.

I only use my phone in a pinch to send email, have a helluva time editing (see: in a pinch) and the typos embarrass me, so often will include the caveat. It's out of frustration, not lack of care.

Scrambled some (organic, leash raised, hand massaged) eggs for Devi. She likes them!

Marketed. Drove to the market, which I usually think is a copout, but I had to go pick my neighbor up from the autoshop right after, so it was just more efficient.

Now I gotta get my ass moving. Today's schedule is batshit.

Thanks, Vortex.

Trying to work out how deep a hole they've dug on Suits (I can only image that's a deeply frustrating show for lawyers to watch--or it says scary things about the profession). The premise of the show being the associate lied about attending law school and I can't remember/work out if he ever took the bar under his own name, but he must have, somehow--the paper trail that Hardison or equivalent (I miss you, Leverage!) would have cooked up for him on another show is a plot point whose details I don't recall.

Thanks, Vortex.

Or possibly Sparky.

Seriously?

Okay, this weekend is going to be GREAT. I can't wait to start working.

Oh--I already have! Bloody wonder I didn't just rm * -rf.

The premise of the show being the associate lied about attending law school and I can't remember/work out if he ever took the bar under his own name, but he must have, somehow-

For some reason I don't think so, though I don't know why he wouldn't. Maybe having part of he paper trail be real makes it less likely to hold together?

It's one of those things I wonder if they intended to hold onto it for the whole series. I'd point to Burn Notice and suggest they don't. Good god, that opening speech and montage DRIVES ME BATSHIT. I don't care how realistic it might be for the same guy to be hung up on the same thing for forever--it doesn't make it interesting.

And Suits doesn't have the millstone of the title or opening credits hanging around its neck. It could become "just" a show about an eidetic prodigy and his master closer mentor and the fucking hyper-competent women they work with, all of whom are pretty much painfully gorgeous.

That I will continue to watch, even without a secret as a hook. But maybe if they could tone down the stakes a *wee* bit each episode, it would be a bit more relaxing.

Jesse, I wasn't sure if these would fit the tumblr mandate well or not:

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My next work task is to send out an email in about 12 minutes. The email is already written and stored in drafts. You have no idea how convinced I am that I'll cock it up.