Today I had court on an warrant. I refuse to wear a jacket to court. My theory is that the judge sees me, realizes I am not with a firm, normally asks me a few questions to which I play up the business trying to make ends meet by doing legal work in house, and then he/she goes easy on me because I appear to be "one of the good guys" who apparently cannot afford a suit. Little bit radical...but it works for me.
Anyway, I was late for my hearing and was busting through the attorney security line at the courthouse. I was gathering my things when, out of the blue, one of the security guards yells out "Hey, you....are you an attorney?" It was one of those surreal moments when everyone stops (attorneys in front, attorneys behind, public line, people in the hallway...). It takes me a moment to realize he is talking to me. My first thought was, do they have a problem with people impersonating attorneys?
Not knowing how exactly to respond I simply went with the smart ass approach and said "yep....I am....just apparently not a very convincing one".
He just stared at me for like five seconds. I thought to myself...ok, no sense of humor here...I am going to get tasered!" Then he just busted into uncontrollable laughter. The laughing was contagious. The screeners started laughing, attorneys started laughing, Hispanics in the public line who I am sure did not speak a word of english started laughing. The security guard came over and shook my hand telling me it was nice to finally meet an attorney with a sense of humor. At that point a few of the attorneys stopped laughing, but everyone else was still carrying on.
Still not sure if they were laughing at me or with me....but it did create quite a scene. Only in Vegas.
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