Does This Count as Legal Experience?
Look, I hate traffic cops and parking tickets as much as the next guy. I especially hate traffic cops in the greater Boston area — those people have no appreciation for the spatial genius required to park a Cadillac in Cambridge. That said, fighting the traffic overlords always felt like a waste of time.
But perhaps I was wrong. On Craigslist, there is a job posting by a company looking for some legal muscle to fight parking tickets:
EXPERIENCE IS REQUIREDWith an ever-increasing quantity of Boston parking tickets to handle we are hiring individuals to assist us in the review of Boston parking tickets for our business and individual clients. Our policy is that you can work from home with highly flexible hours. Experience is however, required.
As our hours are highly flexible you can choose to work days, nights or weekends. If you are not looking for work yourself but happen to know of a qualified professional who is, please pass this along to them.
We want you to know that we have great passion for what we do and take great pride in our relationships with everyone on our team. Accordingly, we are always looking for better ways to do things. Therefore, we place great value on your input. To be sure, YOUR ideas will be listened to.
What kind of experience is required? After the jump, we see that the company loves liberty.
The Craigslist ad was posted by ParkingTicket.com. On their website, the company guarantees results:
Welcome to parkingticket.com, the first website in the world to fight your parking ticket online!We GUARANTEE your ticket will be dismissed or reduced or you pay us nothing.
If you sign up to work with ParkingTicket.com, you’ll be doing your part for the cause of liberty. Just ask Felix Frankfurter! The Craigslist ad closes with this rousing call to action:
A Forbes Magazine article about us sums it up well:“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.” When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote those words in 1943, he probably didn’t have parkingticket.com in mind. Frankfurter was talking about an unfair murder rap, not a parking violation. For 21 years….(they have) helped motorists find loopholes and technicalities to beat what they consider one of the most oppressive, arbitrary regimes on the planet: the Parking Violations Bureau. “What we’re about is freedom.” “The freedom to drive into the city, park your car and not get ticketed or towed (for a non-safety related infraction).”
If you are interested in being highly respected, working flexible hours and helping individuals protect their rights please contact us by phone or by email to discuss the opportunities at parkingticket.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Thank you very much and we look forward to hearing from you. Please include your resume, references and desired work schedule.
Is fighting traffic tickets better than being unemployed? Because it looks a whole lot worse.
Parking Ticket Hearing Office (BOSTON) [Craigslist]
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Last week I took a few moments from my valuable day to share with you schlubs some invaluable advice. Below I have pasted it for those who were unfortunate to miss it. You’re welcome.
Today I had a 6 minute power lunch with a law school colleague who, like me, has the distinct pleasure of serving on our prestigious law review. While consuming our delectable meals--each of which cost more than what most of you make per hour--we listed our wretched peers who had been no-offered, deferred and fired. As we reveled in their inadequacies, we noticed that each peon was dilatory and nescient.
Let me offer you grunts some sage advice regarding this matter: cease your lethargy and stop submitting defective work. If either one proves too difficult for you to achieve, consider a career in the disposal of feces as a lowly janitor. At least this way you could receive "gratuity," as I occasionally toss quarters into the latrines to see if the help is poor enough to fish them out.
(Nota bene: if the help doesn't fish the quarters out, I know that they are earning too much and slash their pittance accordingly.)
Laughing at the image of tubby mystal squeezing his commodious self into a Cadillac, and squeezing said Caddy into a parking space.
Second!
JAKE: You never do get old.
Dang it. I lose.
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JaKe: Best. Comment. Today.
You have redeemed thyself.
Parking Ticket Lawyer = Transportation Litigation on the resume.
ShaFeef,
JaKe needs you to make love to his tonsils and blanus, pronto!
I see the JaKe playa hatas have quieted down...
How much does it pay?
PE should apply for this one and get has lazy ass off the ATL message boards.
Rebuttal Headline: "Does This Count as Newsworthy?"
Yes. Fighting parking tickets is worse than being unemployed. Much worse. These guys are the lowest of the low.
I just had an interview at this firm and couldn't stop giggling every time the interviewer mentioned the firm's name. http://www.sflaw.com/
I've seen these ads multiple times for New York and now for Boston also. I'm also curious what sort of experience is required. One of the early ads had a subject line reading "ALJs wanted."
Unauthorized practice of law. They don't even ask for lawyers, but if a lawyer got hired he'd be asking to be disbarred for assisting in unauthorized practice of law. SHU IT DOWN!
Although I loathe parking enforcement, I think I'd rather be handing these tickets out than getting them dismissed. At least I'd get fresh air.
Mystal only hates parking cops because they've never given him one of their donuts.
Taking into consideration that the Dow has fallen below 10,000 today, signaling the end of the 6 month bear market rally, this job may prove to be a worthwhile endeavor.
if parkingtickets.com is not a lawfirm they have a problem.
To 16, who urges that an undisclosed party "SHU IT DOWN!":
CHECK YOU EMAILS OFTEN
16, what are you talking about? Do you have any actual evidence that their employees aren't lawyers?
If you are a lawyer that practices in a traffic court, you might as well consider yourself to be an employee of the state, town, municipality or county in which you represent your client. Let's face it, 99.9% of traffic lawyers plead their clients out to lesser traffic offenses and contribute to the coffers of the towns holding court. The judges of these courts, who are nothing more than glorified cashiers or clerks wearing a robe, rubber stamp the pleas and tell the clients to go pay the fine. If you want to know which kind of lawyer is worse, an ambulance chaser or a traffic lawyer, flip a coin.
Just to alert Lat: This post was not properly tagged in the "Jobs Elie May Be Qualified For" category. While slightly less egregious than the QE issue, this does suggest that the sloppiness will continue, and that your anger management class may be ill advised.
They are a complete scam, they never refunded my money even though I lost because of their crappy letter, they claimed I made some changes to their materials which I never did.
http://wcbstv.com/seenon/Shame.On.You.2.229571.html
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it isn't identified as a law firm (which it would have to be under all state bars, and ABA guidelines)
the ad says nothing about needing a JD or being a licensed attorney. call me crazy, but usually such reqyuirements are listed up front. again, this second element hardly matters - the key point is that this is a non-legal company offering legal advice (analysis of tickets to see if there is a legal loophole). i haven't even STARTED on the advertising issues if this WERE a law firm.
ATL:
YOU NEED TO DO A STORY ON YOUR OWN GOSSIP.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE TO PRETEND LAT DIDN'T GO APESHIT ON ELIE YESTERDAY.
GIVE UP THE GOODS.
Lets get a post on if Latham is unfreezing Latham's below market salaries after the salary cuts
THE DEATH OF BIG LAW
It is not hard to understand. Big law has a skewed hiring system, where students at schools like harvard and yale are virtually guarenteed a job. People go to harvard and yale, dont get grades, dont try, and dont learn. They come out thinking they are smarter than everyone because they went to harvard or yale. The firm is then dominated by people who havent learned a whole lot and largely view it as an impossibility that they could ever get something wrong. They are all too arrogant to relize the limits of their intelligence- such as running a business. With so many people from so few schools, a groupthink mentality is cultivated. Large portions of firms where taught how to be pricks by a small number of law faculty. They are too lazy, incompetant, and otherwise useless to look ahead and see the problems with their current course of action. Diversity of thought (by hiring people that have been educated by different teachers, so there could be more types of eyes looking at things) is completely unnacceptable because the only thing these people have in life is money, and the prestige of a peice of paper they recieved. And they want to safeguard that above all else. Therefore, everyone else is a TTT. Well, a whole lot of TTTs are at work these days, and a whole lot of big law types are not. Arrogance is a bitch. So is karma.
Discuss
29 = Frank Rich
29's grim spelling errors suggest troll post. Either way, way too much effort for too little result.
That could be a fun job. Even though I'm a corporate lawyer, at my first firm, I did a few DUI cases for some mid-level execs at firm clients. These guys were contrite and it was always the same thing - some b.s. rubber chicken dinner they were required to attend for work and they had too much to drink. It was fun messing with the prosecutor and ordering stuff like the docs showing calibration of the breathalyzer.
Fuck you, elee. There's nothing wrong with traffic cops. If your fat ass wasn't speeding, you would have nothing to worry about.
Marshall Dennehey, Kensington, to $44 k !
29 = grammatical and spelling genious!