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Interesting book (5.00 / 2) (#3)
by stillife on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 06:02:29 AM EST
I'm going to order it.  I enjoy reading books by lawyers about their cases, ever since I read Louis Nizer's "My Life in Court" years and years ago.  

I'm a legal secretary at a firm specializing in estates and estate litigation - death, taxes and family dysfunction.  ;)

Can I laugh at that? (none / 0) (#10)
by CoralGables on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:22:41 AM EST
Not much makes me laugh my first 15 minutes of the morning but specializing in death, taxes, and "family dysfunction" did it for me. Who doesn't have a horrendous story of watching families act like spoiled children thinking they are entitled to a dead persons money.

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Heh (none / 0) (#12)
by stillife on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:39:39 AM EST
I always say that death, tax and family dysfunction never go out of style, which is why our small lawfirm is so prosperous.  I'm an only child, so I don't have personal experience with sibling rivalry (my 2 kids have a good, if somewhat contentious relationship), but the grudges carried on for decades are unbelievable.  We had one case where two brothers were fighting over the father's estate.  The brother on the other side whined in a deposition that his grandparents never gave him hugs or lollipops.  And this was a 60-year-old man!  

As my boss says, estate litigation is often just a way of keeping the deceased parent alive.

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"Family dysfunction," indeed (none / 0) (#15)
by Anne on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 10:18:43 AM EST
I'm a paralegal who's been doing E & T work for longer than I care to remember, and there are days when it is a lot like doing field work for an advanced degree in psychology...

The book sounds fascinating, Jeralyn - I will be checking the local library!

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