So, I’m in Wake Forest’s Elder Law Clinic. It basically lets me practice law under a supervising attorney without yet being admitted to the bar let alone graduated from law school. I get to do stuff like wills, powers of attorneys, advance directives, Medicaid planning, consumer debt problems, etc. So far, I’ve drafted a will, represented someone as a guardian ad litem in a guardianship proceeding, met with some other clients. Good experience, right?
Well, today, I was supposed to go to Hospice to meet with a new client because of some various family turmoil. Well, I couldn’t go. She died on me. She died last night rather than deal with the family problems and meet with a student attorney. So now I get to fill out a closing memo without ever filling in an opening memo. And part of it asks if we sent a closing letter, which we will not. My response there? “The client died before the initial interview.”
Who would have thought that an Elder Law Clinic could have clients randomly die overnight.
Just try reinstalling the client. Or make sure it runs on your os before you do that. I tried running rosetta stone on my vista computer, it didn’t work. It worked on my xp laptop. Anyway. I hope I helped.
I listed them that way to show perceived lack of qualification. If admitted to the Bar, it stands to reason that I graduated from law school since you have to graduate from law school to sit for the exam. Therefore, with the way I listed it, it was to show I wasn’t even qualified to take the Bar yet
Exactly. That’s not the way the phrase “let alone” works. What you said is like saying “I didn’t even graduate from the bar, so nevermind saying I graduated from law school, that’s even harder!” It’s totally ridiculous! And your bad use of an idiom makes you a bad person, by the way!
I have to side with Hades on this one. Idioms work by virtue of being formulaic, not logical. Many idiomatic expressions don’t even make sense gramatically, but work simply because they are repeatedly used to express a static meaning relationship. Using them in any other fashion only brings up the old Humpty Dumpty argument about meaning.
“Let alone” means what Hades is saying, and it’s logical. The first clause is for the more likely event, usually a prerequisite, and the second clause is for the less likely possibility that was already being discussed. It means, “Until this more likely prerequisite happens, let’s leave aside this second more unlikely possibility.” Because you absolutely won’t pass the bar till graduating from law school, graduation is more likely and fits the first clause.
Also Hades, I’m disturbed by the implications of your location.
I’m disturbed that the only place we can find Hades right now is specifically in X-wing’s cockpit. I am thankfully not qualified to remove that. The only thing those videos tell us is that however this ends, it will end badly for both X-wing and Hades.
Wow, am I the only one who thinks how cool it is we have multiple people from our forum as successful lawyers? The geeks will inherit the earth, damn straight.
And your bad use of an idiom makes you a bad person, by the way!