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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of women in bars...
I was in a bar last night with some (non-lawyer) friends, and a guy came up to talk to one of them. They went to high school or something. Anyhow, she makes introductions and says "oh, RT's a lawyer too." I smile and go back to a more interesting conversation about music venues. My music loving companion takes off to answer a call, and I'm suddenly talking to the lawyer. He asks me what I do, I murmer something about health care, and he launches into a 30 minute monologue, pausing only to buy me a beer so I didn't bolt, about the case he's working on.
Does this happen to regular people? Is it just to other lawyers? I'm not a litigator, have no interest in litigation, and any health care lawyer will tell you that we have little to nothing to do with medical malpractice. I don't care about the details of your case! I can kinda, sorta understand being excited to talk about what you do with someone who may understand it, but when the eyes glaze over (for me that's usually when I say, "Do you know anything about HIPAA?") I quickly move on to other topics.
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I don't talk shop with anyone, and I tell people who want to talk shop that I don't talk shop with anyone.
It's b/c most lawyers rarely have anything else to talk about, besides their new Beemer.
And for anyone who thinks he's (it's mostly males) a hotshot lawyer, I usually remind him that, no matter how important he thinks he is, he's just another empty suit, and that his bigshot client won't be able to pick him out of a crowd in a month.
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