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To: TRIIBoy who wrote (12560)12/13/1998 12:50:00 AM
From: Estimated Prophet  Read Replies (2) of 19331
 
Your law student friend needs some serious real world knowledge:

1. Top 50 law school doesn't mean anything. Many of the best trial lawyers viewed law school as a mere bump on the road, an obstacle that had to be attacked solely as a means to get the degree needed to get a law license so they could put their rhetorical skills to work. High-falutin' law is the last thing they need to be successful in trial practice.

2. Fancy-pants big law firms that only hire students from top-50 law schools don't have any real trial lawyers. For your friend's information, most of the big fancy law firms like the one Ken Starr works for are NOT populated with real trial lawyers.

3. A complaint filed in federal court need not be as detailed as the one "served" via SI. But many times there are good strategic and tactical reasons for including lots of detail. Also, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require specific pleading in certain circumstances.

4. Your friend needs to read the law instead of just assuming he knows it by osmosis. The filing of cross-claims does not necessarily defeat diversity and the case could remain in federal court even if there were other posters in England. Your friend needs to go ask his fancy pants professor in his top-50 law school about the numerous federal cases that hold exactly what I say.

5. <<See what college this attorney went to and what rank he was, shouldn't be hard to find out. If he is from a 3rd rate school, obviously no one would hire for a 10 million dollar case someone who went to a school ranked below the # 50 law school in the U.S.>>
Joe Jamail didn't go to a top 50 law school. He flunked Torts. But he was hired by Pennzoil to sue Texaco and won the biggest verdict in history. Why? Because he didn't let himself be bound by strict thinking about the traditional rules of the intentional interference with contract cause of action. Great lawyers are not necessarily great law students!

Now, mind you, I went to a second tier law school and I was not a good law student, so if you want to just dismiss this as sour grapes, go ahead. But I don't lose very often.
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