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Bad Alias:
I mean she is literally a lawyer.
--- Quote ---Mab’s human cover is she’s a lawyer, she’s actually a licensed attorney and can show up and do things if she wants to, she doesn’t often choose to do that but occasionally it’s useful to be able to walk into a human courtroom. cos law is something that… I think one of the defining attributes of many of the fae is that they have this completely rigid code, and they understand codes even if we don’t understand the code they're behaving by, they adhere to it and they're going to stick to whatever they believe in even if it makes no sense to us...
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Jim, Eastorcon 2015
I don't know how she's a lawyer, where she's admitted, or how she maintains her license(s).
* Did she go to law school and pass the bar exam or was she a lawyer before some or all such requirements existed and has she just maintained her license(s)?
* Is she licensed in just one state? Is she licensed in all of them? Is she licensed in multiple countries?
* Does she sit through CLE classes? (California requires 25 hours every 3 years, Texas 15 every year, and New York 24 every 2 years)
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 29, 2020, 05:33:49 PM ---I mean she is literally a lawyer.
Jim, Eastorcon 2015
I don't know how she's a lawyer, where she's admitted, or how she maintains her license(s).
* Did she go to law school and pass the bar exam or was she a lawyer before some or all such requirements existed and has she just maintained her license(s)?
* Is she licensed in just one state? Is she licensed in all of them? Is she licensed in multiple countries?
* Does she sit through CLE classes? (California requires 25 hours every 3 years, Texas 15 every year, and New York 24 every 2 years)
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I don't see any of the above being a problem for her, if she needs a license, it will happen.. It brings her bargaining powers into focus though, why she is so good at finding loop holes and why mortals usually lose to her.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 29, 2020, 05:33:49 PM ---I mean she is literally a lawyer.
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Jim, Eastorcon 2015
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<blinks>
Well.
Thank you, I hadn't see or heard of this before!
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 29, 2020, 09:48:01 PM --- ... It brings her bargaining powers into focus though, why she is so good at finding loop holes and why mortals usually lose to her.
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To be brutally frank about it, rigid adherence to weird legalistic codes (with abstruse loopholes and stunningly draconian penalties) has been a hallmark of faeries & old faerie-tales since LONG before any of the existing legal codes were written; it's far more likely (particularly in the Dresdenverse) that the lawyers derive their ways from the fae, than vice versa!
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 29, 2020, 09:48:01 PM ---I don't see any of the above being a problem for her, if she needs a license, it will happen.
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It's more that it seems like her time is more valuable. A lot of CLE credits are apply to most states, so it's not like she's going to have to do 425 hours a year (just over 17 days), but I wouldn't be surprised if she would have to spend a few days every year taking CLEs. A lot of CLE seminars designed to cover a years worth of credits are scheduled over two or three days. And it's not like she could just not take the classes because that would involve lying. There are other certifications (statements) lawyers have to make annually. Additionally, depending on when she became a lawyer in America, she could have been required to swear an oath to defend the Constitution, which is a somewhat scary concept.
Honestly, it has me thinking that Jim has no idea what is involved in simply being a lawyer. I mean, most people have no idea what's involved in most professions. This came up recently because a friend of mine who is a manager had employees becoming disgruntled because they thought she just sat there in her office not doing anything. I don't know why they thought a big corporation would even have that position if it didn't involve doing anything, but hey, people are generally stupid.
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