Oddbean

😂 - one of my toughest professors ran the design real-world project class you had to do during senior year. He also ran an engineering law class, since he was an engineer AND a lawyer, and described how he served as expert witness a few times. We also went through some of the frivolous law suits that changed our culture...like when phone booth enclosures went away when an out-of-control driver side-swiped one - and the caller in the booth sued the phone company and WON.

When I'm ready to be disbarred I'll do a podcast on how fundamentally broken the practice of law is--in the meantime I need to stack sats. That said, _because_ it's so broken, litigation will be one of the last professions to fall to AI sooo take that SUCKERS! The fickle, organic human essence that sustains this stygian golem shall be the last battle field on which the final war of man versus machine. Spoiler: we still lose.

I'm not ready to be disbarred yet. That said, it's fundamentally about the inability to properly advise clients when Judge's aren't held accountable for not doing their jobs. Many do try, but they are just people after all. Learning to leverage the picadillos of juries and judges to circumvent, rather than ensure the law is followed, sustained, or improved, is the real profession. This is a really unnuanced take and obviously just my opnion. But, it comes down to disparity in resources. Put another way, if you want to see actually good lawyering and mostly good judge-ing, you have to look at big suits like Google v. Microsoft where the best lawyers are on the job with unlimited resources and Judges who know the world is watching. In the case of Hatfield v. McCoy, the judge may just decide to "Do whats right" in their opinion rather than what the law requires because he knows the litigants can't afford an appeal and no one is paying attention.