As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday we know that the urge to send the
"HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃"
email becomes overwhelming to you, dear reader, and several thousands others who also have our email address.
The result is that on a day we should not be thinking of work, our email inbox becomes flooded with emails from lawyers and law firms we barely remember, parroting all the nice feelings and thoughts about how much we all have to be thankful for.
But let's be real.
The real reason Dewey Chetum and Howe sends that HAPPY THANKSGIVING EMAIL with all the pablum about taking a moment to reflect on all we have to be thankful for, is not because they really mean it. What they want is for the recipient to say "wow what a nice bunch of lawyers, I think I'll send them all my PIP accident cases in 2025."
Rest assured, as far as Rumpole goes, NO ONE who sends us a HAPPY THANSGIVING email will ever get a referral from us. In fact, let's start a
BOYCOTT ALL WHO SEND HOLIDAY EMAILS campaign.
They do not care about Easter, or Thanksgiving, or Kawanza, or Shavout, or Christmas. It is just a not-so-subtle stupid bit of marketing which, as to us, makes us see RED.
So stop it. Don't send that stupid email full of nonsense- which we know you didn't send anyway, but corralled some hapless intern in your office and made them send out the email bomb to every address in your firm's email address book.
Send us offending email and we warn you now that we may publicly call you out on it on our blog and ask you to defend your holiday spam.
Eat your turkey. Bet against the Giants. And enjoy the day off. And .... and we mean this ...
DO NOT SEND THAT EMAIL
Happy Thanksgiving, etc. 🦃
50 comments:
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Dewey, Cheetum & Howe
Happy thanksgiving!
Disagree dude ! It’s just a nice gesture There should be more fake niceties and less scamming emails
Rumpole: what is the chance of a lawsuit to stop trump from being sworn in because of the congressional report proving he was an insurrectionist, which would preclude him from having a civil or military post in the government pursuant to the 14th amendment section 3?
Has Kathy taken a cognitive test? I’m just wondering who really runs the SAO?
Send no emails. Let there be peace.
Dewey Chetum and Howe first appeared on The Three Stooges.
The Captain Retorts:
Dear Rumpole:
My law firm has never sent a Happy Thanksgiving email to anyone. Ever. But this year, for you, I’ve decided to make an exception. Check your inbox.
Cap Out …….
An interesting article:
Fla. Bar Alleges Atty Delayed Trial Over His Broken
Tooth
By Dorothy Atkins
Law360 (November 26, 2024, 9:50 PM EST) -- The Florida Bar has launched a complaint against a criminal attorney in the Florida Supreme Court, accusing him of violating state bar rules by refusing to proceed with a jury trial because he had a broken tooth.
In a seven-page complaint filed Monday, the state bar alleges Kenneth L. Williams of Leon County, Florida, willfully refused to obey a court order to proceed to jury trial after the judge denied his request for continuance that was based on his dental troubles.
"[Williams] told the court that he believed that the jurors might not treat his client fairly if they saw the broken tooth," the complaint said. " ... In response to the bar inquiry, [Williams] explained that his client informed him that he did not want [Williams] to proceed to trial with his broken tooth.
[Williams] advised the court that he could not in good conscience disregard his client's directive."
At the time, Williams' client was facing a jury trial on 38 counts of aggravated possession of child pornography, which is a second-degree felony, and if convicted, his client could have faced up to 570 years in prison and be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, according to the complaint.
The case was set to go to trial March 4, but the night before, Williams filed a motion asking the court to continue the trial date due to his tooth, which he claimed he broke March 2, the complaint says.
The trial judge held a hearing on the continuation request, but the court denied it after Williams said he wasn't in pain. The judge found that the broken tooth did not impede Williams' speech, and the court observed that Williams could be heard and understood, according to the complaint.
However, Williams refused to proceed with trial, and he invited the judge to hold him in contempt of court, but instead, the judge ordered Williams to be removed as counsel and then appointed a public defender to replace him, the complaint says.
Following the incident, the bar opened an inquiry into Williams' conduct, and in a sworn statement April 30, Williams testified that his tooth had since fallen out and he did not see a dentist until March 18, the suit says. However, Williams also claimed that his client didn't want him to go to trial with the broken tooth because his client purportedly believed jurors would be prejudiced against the attorney, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit alleges Williams' conduct violated multiple Florida Bar rules, including a rule requiring lawyers to act with "reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client," a rule requiring attorneys to take reasonable efforts to expedite litigation consistent with his or her client's interests, and a rule forbidding attorneys from disobeying court obligations.
Additionally, the complaint accuses Williams of violating a rule prohibiting attorney conduct that's prejudicial to the administration of justice.
"The Florida Bar respectfully requests that this court appropriately discipline the respondent under the rules regulating the Florida Bar," the suit said.
Williams and representatives for the state bar didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Thoughts?
Don’t care. More important what is the status of the bar complaints against our local ASA’s?
Bronwyn Miller, clearly. 😂
I heard support staff at the SAO are resigning at an all time high. That should be looked into. Possibly it’s a failure from the top brass that turns a blind eye how they are treated by the ASA’s.
Milt - please don’t send that email …..#myconstipationcalendar….
Go bears. Da bears.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except one person.
Was there a fight at the SAO?
I know an ASA right here at the SAO that deserves the Florida Bar to properly discipline him since the SAO takes a blind eye to all the illegal negligible acts he does. Short little instigator that later plays victim.
KFR deserves some
credit for turning things around on the Pino case. That’s a serious matter.
He’s a real jerk. I believe his reputation follows him wherever he goes. He’s envious his friends make three times his salary.
Rumpole - WHO is most likely to be Trump’s appointment to Miami as US Attorney?
Was that KFR or Jose? Definitely not Talpins or Daisy.
Well now that the Corey Smith shit show has come to an end every supervisor can go back to supervising their support staff.
“Short male” doesn’t help. They’re all short. I think that’s why their egos are so screwed up.
Pending . . .
They upped Pino from a misdemeanor for two years to a felony. What are you talking about? is the question not why did they wait two years and wait for a motion to dismiss and run and get scared, and up it to a felony…
Every prosecutor who showed up into court, said the office filed what the office, believed it could prove… Why are we giving her credit now for upping this to a felony… looks vindictive as fuck. She got great press, and now we’re causing a stir on the blog, thats bright
It could also be their incompetence and not caring about their work and whining… good try….
Who is even bringing this up? You guys screwed the pooch. You got a great article. Shut the f up! Who is Rundle’s media people. Whoever you are, you suck!! Why on earth would you open this open. You hosed the defense, wrongly but let’s give her credit.
@6:49 what makes you think it’s come to an end? There’s still a motion to vacate pending… not over til it’s over.
Nushin Sayfie
This one has a huge ego and attitude problem. Not to mention he curses like a sailor.
Pino's problem is Laura Adams. She would file charges against her own mother. That being said, in light of the new statements, it looks like Pino should have felony charges after all. Laura is not afraid of anyone.
11:23 :
a fire fighter came forward , no ? Laura Adams is fearless. You sound weak btw. KFR is teflon
The bigger question is why Pino did not plead guilty to the M2. 🤕
Don’t think so!
Pino should have pled to the misdemeanor- he is properly charged with a felony.
Pino needs the Q
Anyone with a brain knows what happened in the Pino case. Had that been someone else and not a Cuban mafia member, blood would have been drawn. FACTS.
If Pino did plead out the misdemeanor could they not still file felony charges and set aside the plea?
KFR is Teflon? She comes to work at 3pm leaves at 4pm.
Ask the Q
Absolutely not. That’s called double jeopardy.
I heard Nushin is someone he is considering.
I like Laura she’s all for Justice. Let the jury decide.
KFR is a weak State Attorney she has no clue what is going on in her office.
So you’re saying Bronwyn is an unofficial advisor?
Nushin? you’re out of your mind. She’s for catch and release. Clearly the opposite what a Trump administration is looking for.
Not twice the same thing, I say! Non bis in idem! But the distinction might be whether it is the same offense or the same acts. It is easy when it is the same offense all over again which goes towards double jeopardy ala res judicata. But people must go after the distinction when the same acts are used to justify a different charge or a newer charge which is not the same. The Supreme Court has also interpreted the Double Jeopardy Clause to incorporate the doctrine of collateral estoppel or issue preclusion which prohibits re-litigating an issue of fact or law raised and necessarily resolved by a prior judgment. Since the facts determined go to matters that probably should have been charged originally, the failure to charge those other charges previously will be fatal because one would hate to see a prosecutor try and lose a case and then say, "Well that other charges different from what I took to trial, can I make on these same facts?"
Had Pino pleaded guilty to careless homicide , the state would be precluded from charging reckless homicide. At trial , his attorney should ask for the lesser included offense of careless homicide and if the jury came back careless, that would be a dub.
2025 PIP Cases have no value, was this example intentional Rumpole?
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