Arbitration & Mediation

Negotiate Sobriety with the Labor Day Edition of Blawg Review # 175 at Austin DWI Lawyer

By Victoria Pynchon

If you've never been asked to perform a field sobriety test, raise your hand.  That's what I thought.  Only Ken Adams whose Dilbert post was one of my week's favorites.

And for the three of you who have not yet seen this video of why not to come to court drunk and how not to respond to the Judge's questions in an intoxicated state, see this hilarious video. 

The rest of us -- most of us - by the grace of whatever Higher Power we invoke in our darker moments - have not needed the services of Jamie Spencer at the Austin DWI Lawyer Blog, host of the Labor Day Edition of Blawg Review #175.

This week, Jamie brings us, among other great posts of last week:

Res Ipsa's tutorial on Firefox; Jordan Furlong’s radical suggestion that non-lawyers (ever heard of a "non-physician"?) can do a lot of good legal work without putting the rest of us out of work; Dan Hull's recommendation that first and second year associates be paid in experience rather than dollars (make law school one year and you're on Dan);  Lawrence Taylor's frightening image of cops with needles;  our sister blog's coverage of the recent FBI Blogger arrest and tips on negotiating with the FBI when they're on your doorstep; Susan Crawford's thoughts on nondiscriminatory Internet access; Randazza's trip down baby-boom lane in a "Fuck the Draft" leather jacket (yes, Gen X and Y, we'll be happy to receive your thank you notes for abolishing the draft now); Mark Hermann's post on enjoining a drug companies to give patients access to unapproved, experimental drugs; and much, much more. 

Check Blawg Review for submission guidelines to host Legal Literacy, a blog I've never visited but will now add to my Google reader as a good source for material on its topic -- building bridges between business and the law.  

Finally, my best field sobriety test anecdote from the police report:

Police officer:  Please recite the alphabet backwards.

Driver: (laughing)  Are you kidding?  I can't even do that when I'm sober!

Here's the web page for The Other Bar for any attorney who believes he or she may have just a tiny problem, perhaps a small issue, with drugs or alcohol.  There's no day quite like the day you finally realize that there's a single, relatively simple solution to an enormous number of personal and professional problems.

Step One:  We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on September 01, 2008 (boomark / email).