Today is a very special day...
May. 6th, 2016 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogThat's the title of one of the songs of my childhood, from the beloved Mister Rogers. Its lyrics were quite profound:
Today is a very special day
A very very very special day
A very very very very very very very very very very very special day
Fortunately, I can't find audio. Because that would be cruel.
Two of my bigger cases are coming to heads today. The newer of them resolved with amazing speed: I sued it in early April; by mid-month heard from a large law firm (not the one beating up another new client of mine) who asked for some time which I gave them; they made an offer Wednesday which the client accepted; and I'm picking up a check today.
Would that all of them 'twere so simple. (Try saying that repeatedly.)
Today's matter has been on a much slower boat since the middle of last year. Sued in August, defended by September, papers floated around for a few months, an April court date was assigned, adjourned and adjourned again, and now I'm waiting for my opposite number to come in to review the numbers and, I suspect, make an offer. If not, I file a response to their limited opposition and I take my chances on Monday.
ETA. We're close. Perilously close. I give it a 90-plus percent chance if I can communicate with a client human being first thing Monday. Otherwise, we joust:
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By the end of today, I likely will file two more bankruptcies, bringing the total for the past two weeks to five. I've never been a high-volume filer (it's rare to file two on the same day), but making it more remarkable is that in 2012, I didn't file five cases in the entire year, and only one in the first nine months. The law hasn't changed appreciably between then and now; the economy is improved, especially in this region; and I'm not doing anything different in terms of marketing. Some of these filings are coming through a colleague and I am trying to get a direct connection to them.
----
Emily's back from the big city; she and a co-worker just went down for a day. Cameron will be coming home this weekend for his brother's birthday, but we probably won't see much of him, either.
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Well, the dude's now officially an hour late. Maybe he got lost in the Land of Make Believe:P
Today is a very special day
A very very very special day
A very very very very very very very very very very very special day
Fortunately, I can't find audio. Because that would be cruel.
Two of my bigger cases are coming to heads today. The newer of them resolved with amazing speed: I sued it in early April; by mid-month heard from a large law firm (not the one beating up another new client of mine) who asked for some time which I gave them; they made an offer Wednesday which the client accepted; and I'm picking up a check today.
Would that all of them 'twere so simple. (Try saying that repeatedly.)
Today's matter has been on a much slower boat since the middle of last year. Sued in August, defended by September, papers floated around for a few months, an April court date was assigned, adjourned and adjourned again, and now I'm waiting for my opposite number to come in to review the numbers and, I suspect, make an offer. If not, I file a response to their limited opposition and I take my chances on Monday.
ETA. We're close. Perilously close. I give it a 90-plus percent chance if I can communicate with a client human being first thing Monday. Otherwise, we joust:
----
By the end of today, I likely will file two more bankruptcies, bringing the total for the past two weeks to five. I've never been a high-volume filer (it's rare to file two on the same day), but making it more remarkable is that in 2012, I didn't file five cases in the entire year, and only one in the first nine months. The law hasn't changed appreciably between then and now; the economy is improved, especially in this region; and I'm not doing anything different in terms of marketing. Some of these filings are coming through a colleague and I am trying to get a direct connection to them.
----
Emily's back from the big city; she and a co-worker just went down for a day. Cameron will be coming home this weekend for his brother's birthday, but we probably won't see much of him, either.
----
Well, the dude's now officially an hour late. Maybe he got lost in the Land of Make Believe:P