#something something miscommunication and incorrect conclusions are jumped to

[magicpiano]

DC/Marvel Peter Parker in Gotham AU where Dick Grayson is Peter's bio dad, and Jason is Uncle Ben.

Peter finds himself in another world where Ben exists only for him to be dead here too. Peter is lost, alone in a world he knows nothing about and has no one to talk to. Even if he starts making friends he can't tell them the truth about being from another universe. And yeah his bio parents exist here, but what is he supposed to tell them? He would just sound crazy, better to avoid them.

But he needs to talk to someone, so Jason's grave becomes a place where he can vent and reminisce.

[canaryatlaw]

so today was alright, nothing special really but fine. Woke up at 7, same as every day, left a little early so I could drop my lunch off at the office before heading to court. upon getting to court there was some short-lived miscommunication issues that I don’t want to spell out because I’ll just get pissed about them all over again but they were resolved rather quickly and the rest of the morning was fine. at one point the lawyer I was with sent me to the other side of the floor (there are two parallel hallways on the outside ends of the building with the elevator/stairs in the middle, so I was running from one hallway to the other) to put a hold on a case, and as soon as I got to that hallway I was met by one of the other attorney’s who just sent off boy lawyer to another courtroom to step up on a case and handed me a folder and said “I need you to step on this case that’s about to be called in this courtroom, all you have to say is you need time to issue an alias summons” and I managed to say the other lawyer had asked me to put a hold on the former case and she said she’d take care of it, then she was gone and I was like alright, it’s showtime, folks. these are incremental steps forward that won’t matter in a week (swearing in a week from tomorrow!!) but last time it was my first time stepping up without someone in the room watching me but I didn’t actually say anything, so this was my first time actually saying something, even though it was very simplistic and easy. The fact that we were needing to issue an alias summons also meant there wasn’t going to be an OPC to deal with so that makes it easier. I go in and wait a few cases, then it gets called and I’m a tad bit of a mess, I drop my phone on my way to the bench with a loud thud, then awkwardly pick it up and run to the bench. the actual talking was easy of course, I just said what I was told and he said time granted get a 35 day date and then it was the next case. the only issue now was that I had ran out with just my phone, all my stuff was in the other courtroom, including my pen. so I had to awkwardly ask to borrow a pen from one of the lawyers sitting at the counsel table so I could furiously write down what he said, and then I had to wait to get a date from the clerk which I would still need the pen for and I’m like a hot mess and keep being like “I’m sorry do you need it back??” but he was chill and like “it’s ok, I forget pens a lot so I understand” which I appreciated. Got the date, got the order entered, and it was done. Two Mondays from now that’s gonna be the whole operation, just me handling cases, which is still kind of crazy but I know it’s something I’ll get used to quickly and adapt just fine, so I’m not really concerned. I used my deduction skills to figure out what courtroom that lawyer would be in (meaning I figured out which lawyer she was covering for and where she would be at that point) and returned her folder to her before going back to find my original lawyer. we did a couple other random things before she said I could go back to the office, she was hanging around for a hearing in the afternoon, so I took the train back to the office. and oh, the projects I’ve been given. it’s seemed like they all came out of nowhere, and I got another one today to draft an amended complaint after they fucked up the first one and it was gonna get dismissed, so now I have to fix it but I’m still stuck with the fucked up argument, I can just add an actually good one. So I tabled that for the moment so I could go back to working on the response to defendant’s motion to reconsider denial of summary judgment (nice short name) that I had been working on yesterday. I felt like I was back in legal writing class because I was comparing their motion to the arguments we made in the reply to the initial motion for summary judgment and trying to adapt them the best I can. So I was trying to figure out if I wanted to find a way to distinguish the case law they listed but I figured there wasn’t a super strong way to do that, so instead I argued that the evidence we put forward met the standard they claimed we hadn’t met rather than arguing the standard itself was incorrect. then they had listed a bunch of case law regarding speculative conclusions and the like and rather then spend the time tearing each of those apart I instead opted to be like all of that is completely irrelevant because it’s referencing standards at trial, and this is a summary judgment motion with a different standard that doesn’t require us to do any of the things you just listed. so hopefully that comes out as a good argument lol. I’m not too worried because the chances a judge is actually going to reverse themselves on a motion to reconsider (in front of the same judge who made the first ruling) is fairly low, so it shouldn’t be an issue. it was a bit short, but I decided to send it over as a first draft to see where the lawyer would like me to expound the argument further. so I felt pretty good about that, even if it was a bit short. I ate some of my left over mac and cheese from dinner last night for lunch, then did a few case audits, and after that one of the big guys who had asked me to do some research on the complaints about that big tort case issue in a suburb outside Illinois (it’s not like, a secret or anything, if you’re really curious you can google “sterigenics willow brook” and you’ll find plenty of info) stopped by and asked if I got to it yet and I said I was just finishing up on this and would take a look now. specifically what he wanted was for me to find the complaints other firms had filed on the issue, and at first I was like, do I even know where I would look for those? So I looked at the court website and then went to lexisnexis, and with a few well-placed search filters and keywords I found the 18 complaints that had been placed. So I started reading them and made a summary form for them, listing stuff like law firm, plaintiff’s diagnosis, counts, etc. and went through the rest of them. There was an interesting venue issue so when I figured out what that was I went to tell him and he asked me to print the complaint, so I did that and then read the rest of the cases and summarized them, then delivered to him the printed complaint with the summary of it on top and the summaries of the rest of the complaints so he could decide if there were other ones he wanted to read, as they did have some significant differences as far as counts and such go. I didn't end up doing all 18 because there were several from the same firm that were virtually identical except for the plaintiff’s info, so that wouldn’t have been necessary. It was almost 5 when I finished with that, and I checked my email to find out what files I was supposed to take home, then ran downstairs to pick them up, then stuck them back with my stuff and headed out. Got on the red line and jumped off at the stop by Target because they’ve been bugging me to pick up a prescription they autofilled and I didn’t actually need yet, but oh well, I needed to pick up pads and pens as well as I only have like one pen right now lol. So I did that then hopped back on the train, only to find I was in the same car with the guy I share an office with, which was weird because I obviously had left before him so I had to explain my target run and all that lol which was funny. Got off at my stop and saw plenty of trick or treaters on the streets while I was walking home (if any of them asked me who I was dressed as I was going to say “a very tired lawyer who wants to go home” 😂😂), and I made it home fine. Got more comfortable clothes on, made some dinner out of the leftovers I have, then sat down at the tv only to realize there was no Riverdale on tonight, so instead I switched to the recorded shows I hadn’t been able to watch yet, starting with The Resident. Pretty solid episode, the opening scene may just straight up give me nightmares and that was unnecessary but I get where they were going with it. I then moved on to 911 which is always a fairly emotional show but in this episode they had to put down an injured horse and I swear to fucking I was crying to the point where I was on the verge of sobbing. like it was just so damn emotional I’m tearing up right now just thinking about it. So kudos to them for a very moving episode, with the other stories as well being very well done, especially the one with the bones. Moved onto Blindspot afterwards, was somewhat distracted but got the basics down, pretty interesting episode and a solid flip of the dynamic we’re used to. My roommate had gotten home and was in the shower at that point so I watched some Seinfeld that happened to be on while I waited for the shower, then once I got in there and showered I did the rest of my bedtime routine, ending with publishing the post, meaning I’ve now reached the finish line and will be going to bed now. Goodnight dearies. Love you lots.