Good Idea:   Buying New Shoes for Black Friday Shopping

Bad Idea:  Stealing Shoes

Even Worse:  Showing up at the Next Day at the Store From Which You Stole

Forget It:  Explaining Yourself after Absconding with Incomplete Pairs of Stolen Shoes—the right ones were on display!   

Happy Thanksgiving from the Young Lawyers Blog!

Good Idea:  Communicating with your client.

Bad Idea:  Ignoring your client's repeated attempts to contact you, the court, and opposing counsel.  Not defending your client and failing to inform the client of a judgment against him is also frowned upon.

Good Idea: Tax Deductions

Bad Idea: Trying to deduct $100,000 in payments for prostitutes and pornography, especially when you are a New York tax lawyer.

U.S. Tax Court Opinion attached:  Halby Tax Court Opinion.pdf (12.91 kb)

Good Idea: Speaking up when you feel the justice system has let you or your client down.

Bad Idea:  Calling a court "ghetto" when you are a high-ranking city attorney.

Worse Idea:  Citing online slang dictionaries in support of your argument that you did not intend to use the term in a racist way.

Good Idea:  Going to the law library.
 
Bad Idea:  Going to the law library when you are former student and adjunct that is banned from the campus.  Oh yeah, it's also not a good idea to walk through the law library with two handguns and fifty-three rounds of ammunition.  Sheesh.