My current approach to COVID is that I don't want to be the guy in the war novel that gets shot right after the armistice is signed. Just need to hang in a little longer.
Sean Marotta
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Sean Marotta
@smmarotta
Partner with Hogan Lovells's Appellate group. My GC wants you to know that my postings are my own, not Hogan Lovells' or clients'. Banner image by @courtartist
Joined August 2014
- ME, AS A LAWYER: "It's really important that you read and understand these documents before signing." ME, AS A HOME BUYER: "Just keep handing the papers across. I'll sign anywhere."
- They never tell you in law school how much of your time as a practicing lawyer is spent figuring out why Word is adding an extra, blank page to your document.
- Replying to @am_yersThis is a much-more-horrifying version of the defendant who shows up to her drug-possession trial with the giant-picture-of-weed t-shirt.
- When you accidentally leave comments in the as-filed pleading. There but for the grace of God.
- BigLaw lawyer with Local solo that 50-page brief knows the judge
- What's notable about this case is that it is the closest a Yale-educated lawyer has gotten to a jury trial.1/ Jury selection begins today in the case of leader Stewart Rhodes & 4 members of the Oath Keepers group, indicted on charges, the most serious is which is seditious conspiracy. The trial could have serious implications for Trump. Rhodes is a Yale-educated lawyer.
- [Enters time.] Nonbillable/General Administration. 7.0: Monitor armed insurrection; exchange messages regarding same.
- ME, AS A FIRST-YEAR ASSOCIATE: "I am so terribly sorry that I sent that last email without the document attached. I just realized after hitting 'send.' I will be certain to be more careful in the future." ME, NOW: "And this time with the document actually attached."
- Thoughts and prayers with the parliamentarian staff writing procedural scripts for Wednesday's nonsense.
- If you come from a family where presents are distributed and opened one at a time, going to a family where everyone finds and opens their own simultaneously is utter barbarism.
- Somewhere, there's a second-year associate who is going to start litigating Suez Canal claims now and make partner litigating them and that will pretty much be her entire career. She will be the Suez Canal claims person.
- One think they don't teach you about in law school is how a case can get held up because only Terri in the clerk's office handles a certain thing and she's USUALLY in on Fridays but not today so maybe try back next week.
