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Ojo Rojo

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  1. No. Drafting leases and related documents between mineral owners and oil companies.
  2. Ain't that the goddamned truth. If I could fire my C clients I think I'd be the happiest person alive.
  3. Yeah, this has been a problem for us for a long time. Lack of a clear identity makes marketing tough. We do have core areas - commercial litigation, corporate, IP and family law. Those core areas themselves are all over the place. The roster of lawyers we have, which I mostly inherited when I took over as managing partner, has dictated the firm's practice areas. If I could start from scratch, I would be a boutique that just did one thing and I know what that one thing would be. The problem is that I/we have never had enough work in our core practice areas to leave all of the ancillary work behind. Have a business owner client who wants to do a name change for their kid? Sure, I'll do that - I need the billable work. That has led to forays into all kinds of weird shit, which is stressful in an of itself, because you have to get into an area you don't know, with itinerant risks, and you have to reinvent the wheel every time with forms, etc.
  4. If they supported his quads I might give them a pass...
  5. Not a fan of Breg's black cleats.
  6. Close to home for me. We recently moved my office to a new building. I park in the oversized section of the garage. I noticed that EVERY truck in there backs into their parking spots. It boggled my mind because usually you'll see one or two weirdos in a parking lot do that, but EVERYONE? Well, I finally figured out why. I pull head in to my spot like a regular got-damned American. When I back out I don't have enough room to turn so that I can pull out because of the proximity of the other large vehicles behind me. So I have to do all kinds of creative shit to even back out of my space and go. Backed in vehicles can just pull out and go because the front wheels turn and the back wheels do not. So here it's actually kind of a necessary thing.
  7. Damn, I'm white. I thought the wave thing was just the way some people's hair grew. I had no idea it was a style or deliberate.
  8. That's what I know him for too, but I guess my exposure to him was longer ago when he wasn't so blatantly targeting a conservative audience. In the past he would make fun of vegans and shit like that. Seems like more recently he just goes after anything "left." So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, but I didn't know what he was doing lately.
  9. JP Sears is a neocon douchebag? That's disappointing.
  10. We are a small, full-service firm. Our core practice areas are corporate and transactional, litigation, trial and appeals, intellectual property (prosecution and litigation), real estate, family law, probate and estate planning. We have practiced some in bankruptcy court - creditor claims, some trustee representation, litigation of claims in bankruptcy court. We've done some oil and gas. Some labor and employment. Some administrative law. In the past, we tried (maybe not hard enough and maybe not doing the right things) to market ourselves as outside general counsel. Basically, as the go-to legal resource for companies too small to hire inside counsel. That's what we'd probably like to do if we could pick a single practice area or niche. Not sure if it's tenable. I've been encouraged to choose a single practice area, boutique-style, or industry and focus on that exclusively. I could never quite make that jump because it would be leaving behind some existing work and clients and making ourselves smaller focused just seemed like it was going to cause us to miss some opportunities. At this point, I'm tired of working for low-grade clients on low-grade matters. What ends up happening far too often is that the client gets part way into their matter and starts running out of money. Then you are trying to get creative with billing, most likely taking a big haircut, while still trying to deliver quality legal work and positive outcomes for the client. I'm just getting tired of doing everything cut rate or not getting paid altogether and feeling like I'm forced to take flyers all the time on questionable work just to keep the lights on.
  11. I'm a 15 year lawyer and also manage my small firm. I'm dissatisfied with the current client base and need to make some changes. I get bombarded all the time with SEO and online marketing ads, calls and emails. I've invested in SEO, but it hasn't really worked. We've done some networking groups (BNI, mixers for local COCs, etc.) but those are roomfuls of sellers in my experience. What do y'all do for client generation that has been successful?
  12. Ghoul on ghoul violence. That's a shame Seinfeld.gif
  13. I said, "just about everyone." But still, point taken. There are a lot of capable government employees out there, to be sure. I'm just in a surly mood and feeling like pretty much fuck everyone and fuck everything.
  14. I never asked them to get in, get out and spend money. I'm not sure that was the prevailing sentiment among the populace, either. I guess you are right about the casualties part. Afghanistan hasn't been high on my "votes because" list in a long time, but it was a big issue when the war started and has been a political football at different times since. But just because something isn't a huge political issue of the day doesn't mean that we should make stupid foreign policy decisions. I know fuck all about foreign policy or diplomacy or any of it, but I know what my goals would have been: 1) kill every motherfucker associated with Al Qaeda and 9/11, 2) prevent a situation where 9/11 could happen again. We did that for 20 years, so okay. I personally wouldn't have minded a permanent force large enough to deter the shit that is happening right now. We have troops stationed at bases all over the world as it is. As part of the strategy from the beginning, to maybe someday be able to leave altogether, I might have considered starting a few schools and sending over a bunch of Sand Aggies and John Deeres to teach them how to dry land farm something other than poppies. But that's just me.
  15. What was the excuse for the intel failures of 9/11 and WMD? My theory is that America has lost it and just about everyone in government at every level sucks at their job.
  16. This was always the way it was going to end; a foregone conclusion. No one should be surprised or angered over the withdrawal. People wanted us out of there. The same people are now bitching because we're out. Like there was an alternative. I am a bit surprised that the administration didn't do a better job of damage control and getting the message out that this is going to happen and it's expected. Did they not know? Is our government/military/intelligence really that inept? Anyway, this is what happens when you let politics dictate policy. It was politically advantageous to do big shit in Afghanistan, and Iraq for that matter, in 2001. It wasn't smart. That's the way it is here.
  17. When and how was it ever supposed to end? The only way to suppress the Taliban was to stay forever. That couldn't happen. The problem goes back to origination. The mission in Afghanistan should have been narrower and smaller. Root out and kill everyone who was associated in any way with Al Qaeda and 9/11,then GTFO and watch from afar. We didn't have to throw all of the troops, equipment and resources at the problem to achieve that goal.
  18. Many claim this is not about intelligence, but I'm not so sure. There are plenty of indicators as to which position is objectively, logically wrong. A certain level of intelligence should be able to see them. For instance, the state is simultaneously fighting mask mandates and also taking drastic steps to fight the virus.
  19. SIAP. https://streamable.com/dbjm7a?fbclid=IwAR2UC_ShdAApChrUD0VQC6kLAFCEY4bueJ86Bp26arZ1VtMqSD-ixEz1ysY
  20. Damn. Hard to watch all these teams loading up. Dodgers looking like a Super Team.
  21. Well, crap. I was going to ask about Brad Hand, but the Nats just traded him to the Blue Jays.
  22. Make it 5 BB. Motherfucker! To a guy hitting .112!!!
  23. Is that bad? It seems bad.
  24. Is Raley one of the guys who will be replaced by one of our new dudes?
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