Child playing dress up as in-house counsel
September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. I didn’t realize we needed a special occasion to say, “Arrrr” all the time. When is talk like a lawyer day? “Quasi in rem!” or “Duces tecum!” or “that’ll be $1700 for one hour of ‘further work.'”
Well there might be a job where every day is both days.
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— Legal Eagle 礪 (@AllThingsCivil) September 15, 2024
As it happens, this is not actually an invitation to join Long John Silver’s crew — actually that’s a different job altogether — to litigate worker’s comp claims about wooden legs, but an opening with a shipping software company called Pirate Ship. Though the outfit is clever enough to realize what its job listings look like and lean into it, giving the job another unofficial (or, hell, maybe official) title:
We’re currently on the lookout for exceptional pirates to join our crew as a Senior Legal Counsel otherwise known as a Corsair Consigliere to us here at Pirate Ship.
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The job’s responsibilities, per the listing, include headings like “Keep litigation management shipshape” and “Practice balanced buccaneering with advisory and strategic roles” and “Ride the tides in the seas of change.”
Somewhere out there, there’s an experienced litigator about to unironically have this conversation with outside counsel.
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