Albert & Hahnel or Marx & Engels?

[joanna bujes]

At 06:29 PM 01/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Right, unlike us male lawyers, who never do any
>arduous, patient, and painstaking work. It's a real
>lark to have sort out, first, choice of law issues in
>an ill-pleaded complaint, then do parallel analyses in
>the law of three states of a dozen causes of action,
>finding cases that not only state the correct law but
>come out the same way as the way you want the court to
>come out, thewn make sure all your citations are
>correct and still good law, and then to copy-edit your
>motion a dozen times to remove embarassing typos.
>(This is what I have been doing this last week.) No, I
>sure wouldn't know about careful, exacting, often
>tedious work. Nope, a lawyer's life is a glorious
>cycle of song, a medley of extemporania. But I'm a
>man, and therefore terminally insensitive. Ignoble,
>too. Sheesh.
>
>jks

Somehow we've got our wires crossed. Did I ever say that lawyering is not 
hard, tedious work? I might argue that it's largely unnecessary...but you 
know, after the revolution, if lawyering needed to be done, I'd do my fair 
share...though it wouldn't be my first choice.

Joanna