re: Kim Kardashian is studying to become a lawyer. Would the OT hire her?

Posted on 4/11/19 at 1:22 am to Buckeye Jeaux

Posted by Obtuse1

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Posted on 4/11/19 at 1:22 am to Buckeye Jeaux

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Kardashian sat to OJ's right at the defense table for more than 90% of that trial. He was in on every discussion at the trial. And he assembled the "Dream Team" which was as strong behind the scenes as it was with predominant attorneys and expert witnesses.

Kardashian helped engineer the winning of the most "unwinnable" trial in the last century.

And there is more to "practicing law" than defending drunk drivers and pushing divorces thru the courts. Kardashian was a deal-maker. and that is where much of the real money is made in the practice of law.

I watched every minute of that trial. It was NOTHING like the reports on network news - two different animals - not remotely similar.

I should have been more accurate in that Kardashian did not participate in the courtroom, he was there but did not argue nor elicit testimony. He certainly was the architect of the Dream Team and participated in strategy as well as wrangling the egos. That said he was never consider an attorney of note like Shapiro, Cochran, Bailey, Scheck, Dershowitz, and Neufeld. He made his name in business not in law.

While I agree to an extent that real money in law is made via deals in most areas of law your trial bona fides are what allow you to make the deals.

I watched most of the trial (at least as much as I could while practicing law at the same time) it was on every TV in the offices and I watched recorded parts at home. It was one of the first televised trials where you could watch many of the legal titans of the day perform. Despite my personal conviction that he was guilty the state just didn't meet their burden. Clark and Darden were completely outgunned and Darden getting goaded into introducing the glove was possibly the greatest tactical blunder I have seen in a trial, at least one of any significance.

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Posted by Buckeye Jeaux

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Posted on 4/11/19 at 2:06 am to Obtuse1

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Clark and Darden were completely outgunned and Darden getting goaded into introducing the glove was possibly the greatest tactical blunder I have seen in a trial, at least one of any significance.

Agree. But the thing that swung me to the defense side was the blood evidence. The tech who drew OJ's blood admitted in written testimony that he drew 100 ml (my recollection), and that 40 ml went missing between the lab and the evidence room. and that the amount found on the gate, car console, droplets, and socks was exactly 40 ml.

Further all OJ's blood on gate, socks, etc contained the anti-coagulant chemical the tech had added to the sample.

And the bloody socks on the white rug in OJ's bedroom? The LAPD had just started a policy of videotaping all surfaces of crime scenes (to control alleged pilfering of valuables by LAPD personnel in expensive homes). This happened at about 5AM - before the regular police photogs got there. There was NOTHING on the white rug in the videotape. In the police photots shot later in the day, OJ's bloody socks were smack in the middle of the white rug - and the blood on the socks contained the anti-coagulant.

There were a dozen other equally compelling facts that flew in the face of the State's "case".

And Kardashian was a lawyer in the manner of Swifty Lazar. He "made marriages". He put parties together with iron-clad, but fair contracts. These parties often had never known of each other until Swifty introduced them and demonstrated to them how badly they needed each other (and Swifty's multi-million dollar deal). Swifty and Kardashian each did hundreds of these tailor made deals.

So, court-room attorneys? No. Successful attorneys? Yes.

Also - as to female attorneys. I've seen women intelligently charm adversaries out of more over a lovely lunch, than some hot-shot guys achieve in months with stacks of court filings. Charm certainly doesn't work in all cases, but sometimes works best.

And I'm not saying women can't be tough and have brilliant legal minds. Many possess these traits. I'm saying women more often (in my experience) can bring calm, compassion, and fairness to a negotiation than most men - just my opinion from my experience.

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