Your Ambition, My Life

Multi-district litigation is painful, when your client is sued across the country. It becomes excrutiating when you client also decides to take the high road, by trying the cases one by one instead of settling them all at once. The determination is admirable, but carrying it out is cruel.

There are not many professions like litigation, where other people build up their careers by discrediting yours; where someone makes a living by constantly undoing what you have done.  Well, save for politicians of course.  As you might have guessed from my frequent whining blogs lately, we are working on a very tough case against an opposing counsel who eats us for breakfast, ... lunch and dinner.  God bless his stomach. 

I brushed up my old copy of The Godfather tonight.  Doesn't the Corleone family keep their own lawyers and judges? If the Godfather were to offer me a job now, I probably wouldn't mind taking it. 

 

[簡寧寧]

回複 '金大班' 的評論 :

Sure beautiful! Does that involve a bloody horse head in my bed? Whatever you bring sweetheart, i'd guard it with my life :)

[金大班]

Alright, I am gonna make you an offer you can't refuse

[簡寧寧]

回複 '逍遙白鶴' 的評論 :

早就看到鶴姐留個好幾個言，卻一直打不起精神來回複，該打 ：） 謝謝鶴姐這麽貼心 ～～ 您也常常回北京吧？我也常常回去，咱姐倆得見一回！祝您過個愉快的周末 ～～

[逍遙白鶴]

我也看到小瑪雅的眼裏有爸也有媽，太妙了！
強大的寧寧可能遇到的對手或小人也非等閑之輩，可能越近高峰越多荊棘吧...祝願你越戰越勇，無往而不勝！

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回複 '思韻如藍' 的評論 :

你不說我還真沒注意到，小Maya的眼鏡裏又有爸爸又有媽媽啊！這才是我們的小寶寶嘛！她現在就是我們生活的中心了，每天下班看見她見到爸爸媽媽歡天喜地的樣子，是我們最幸福的時刻 ：）

You are right about the billable hours --trying the cases one by one generates a ton of hours for me. I guess I shouldn't complain. :)

[思韻如藍]

瞧小瑪雅的眼裏有爸也有媽，這不就是咱在外吃苦受累的理由嗎？！

我猜得更離譜了: 是不是case越tough,那咱就有越多的billable hours啊？ 那就做唄，咱小瑪雅又可以吃香喝辣的了！

[簡寧寧]

回複 'Liberty-bell' 的評論 :

Thank you! You want to hire me now?

你太寬容了:) 這篇哪能算“文”啊，實在是前天晚上太 miserable, 不發泄一下睡不著覺。我覺得是默克的那位給他們做了一個壞榜樣。都想 set a record, 都想當CEO. 自古成功都是不能複製的。就比如 Johnson & Johnson, 也對著默克有樣學樣，一個案子一個案子的打，結果洛杉磯一個Trial 就輸了417 million! I believe they fired their trial counsel after that trial. 這都到哪兒說理去？

I will stop whining and start writing fun stuff :)

[Liberty-bell]

"....just to make me look ridiculous. And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous!"
"Thank you for the dinner, .... Mr. Corleone is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately."

hahaha. If I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is to hire you .....

又一篇好文。我就是瞎猜啊。是不是自從Merck's Vioxx案子以後，被告都學著樣，先不和解，一件一件地審，等到原告拖不起了再和解。