Green Grads Archives: December 2008
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31 December 2008
Tuesday Wednesday Transcript: “Do me a favor, wear it to court”
With the office closed for the holiday period, I wasn’t planning to post a Tuesday Transcript instalment this week, but this entry in Above the Law’s 2008 big-law gossip retrospective was too good to pass up:
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30 December 2008
Corporate Cavemen #2
Most days at work, Dick encounters behaviour so awkward, strange or downright repulsive he spews in his mouth a little. These are his stories.
For a while, I sat near a young senior associate I’m going to call Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet was sub-30, militant, and monstrously ambitious. The running joke was that Pinochet would kick his [...]
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26 December 2008
Tech Tips: Google Goodies #1 – GMail
When I was considering what little snippet of techno hooplah to start this series off with, I think I always knew deep down that it had to be GMail. I originally signed up for a GMail account a few years back simply because it had a huge amount of storage but since then it has [...]
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25 December 2008
Merry Christmas!
Just a quick note from the Green Grads team, we hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a great New Year.
That is, if you celebrate Christmas. If you do not celebrate Christmas, we hope you have an equally happy ordinary day on the 25th of December.
And also, those who do not believe that the [...]
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24 December 2008
New Series: Tech Tips
When I turned up for my first day of university back in 2001 I was armed with a notebook from the local news agent and a pen. It served me well over the next three years and when I arrived for my first day at law school I scoffed at all the yuppies breaking out [...]
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20 December 2008
Corporate Cavemen #1
Most days at work, Dick encounters behaviour so awkward, strange or downright repulsive he spews in his mouth a little. These are his stories.
I used to work in the vicinity of a corporate lawyer who I’m going call Chris Farley. This is something of a misnomer. While the real Chris Farley was tragicomic, corporate lawyer Chris [...]
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16 December 2008
Tuesday Transcript: Tell us what you really think
Some judges keep a stern poker face, allowing counsel to meander through hopeless arguments without giving a hint of their disapproval. WA’s Justice Christine Wheeler is not one of those judges:
WHEELER JA: Can I say my first reaction in relation to proposed ground 3 … is that it is doomed, doomed, doomed. Now I don’t [...]
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9 December 2008
Tuesday Transcript: Cut Your Losses
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em
MR GARLING: Your Honours, I took the Court to the regulation. … Why am I concentrating on that, your Honours?
HEYDON J: Because you have no other arguable point perhaps.
MR GARLING: I am sorry?
HEYDON J: Because you have no other arguable point.
MR GARLING: Your Honour [...]
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4 December 2008
Will you end up trapped in pinstripes?
Written by self-confessed escapee of the so-called “Pinstriped Prison”, the publication of this book in the second half of 2008 caused a few murmurs among both prospective law grads and recent grads out in the corporate workforce.
In her first book, journalist and former law student Lisa Pryor delved into the world of corporate recruitment of [...]
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2 December 2008
Tuesday Transcript: That sinking feeling
Sometimes judicial wit leaves lawyers floundering, as counsel in a recent Victorian trial discovered:
COUNSEL: That’s the only cross-examination I have, Your Honour.
HIS HONOUR: Reminds me of the magician and his parrot on the Titanic, Mr Counsel.
COUNSEL: I don’t understand, I am afraid, Your Honour.
HIS HONOUR: The Titanic went down, the parrot struggled to the raft [...]
