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Joan Colen convinced a domestic relations judge to jail a respondent for contempt of court and keep him incarcerated for this long.
What is a record-setting eight years?
After a hearing on her client’s application for disability benefits, Jennifer Payne promised to give her client a ride home, told the client to wait on the sidewalk, and then did this.
What is, drive back to the office alone?
Sheldon Roodman congratulated LAF attorney Reenie Terjak on her pregnancy by saying this.
What is, “I hear that wonderful things are happening in your body?”
While playing a game where the goal was to describe a famous person in six words, Meghan Carter said Golda Meir was “a Saturday Night Live funny woman” because she mistook the former Prime Minister of Israel for this comedian.
Who was Gilda Radner?
While carrying Alan Alop down his staircase on a stretcher, two paramedics cured his excruciating back pain by doing this.
What is dropping the stretcher?
After Tim Huizenga helped him obtain a judgment for more than $600,000, our client used some of the money to pay for this.
What is law school?
While being interviewed on a public radio station, Lawrence Wood urged listeners who might be eligible for LAF’s services to call the agency and then forgot this.
What is the agency’s phone number?
When she was a staff attorney, Kate Shank entered a domestic relations courtroom before the 9:30 status call, failed to notice she was interrupting a bench trial, mistook the witness for the judge’s clerk, and tried to do this.
What is, check in by giving her line number to the witness?
While meeting with his client’s brother, this LAF attorney tried to contact the client by calling a number in the client’s Legal Server Profile. Only after the client’s brother answered his cell phone and said the client was not there did the attorney realize that he was speaking to the man who was sitting in his office.
Who is Lawrence Wood?
In a fight over two dollars, an elderly client and her even older neighbor used these assistive devices as weapons.
What are a cane and a walker?
As the jury filed out of the courtroom after delivering a verdict in favor of Lizzie Rosenthal and Eli Wade-Scott’s client, he stood up and belted out this Queen classic.
What is "We Are The Champions"?
As a Northwestern University law student, Bill Wilen argued that a conviction for public indecency should be overturned because the act took place behind some bushes in Lincoln Park, but one of the appellate justices undermined his argument by saying this.
What is, “I can see behind those bushes from my highrise?”
After business hours, John Gallo told Lawrence Wood he needed help doing this.
What is using a typewriter to address an envelope?
After receiving an e-mail about a client who’d been interviewed “in person,” Rich Wheelock reminded everyone that we may not represent individuals who are this.
What is "in prison"?
When Miriam Hallbauer told her supervisor, Jennifer Payne, that she had to fly home because her mother had broken her arm, Jennifer asked if Miriam’s mother had just one of these.
What are arms?
After Dave Haracz helped her get a divorce, order of protection, sole custody of her five children, and a job as an intake specialist at LAF, Edith Hernandez became a victims’ advocate and was singled out for recognition at LSC’s 25th anniversary celebration by this First Lady.
Who was Hillary Clinton?
While presiding over a domestic relations case, Judge David Haracz (formerly of LAF) was shocked to hear both the petitioner’s attorney and respondent’s lawyer say they worked for this agency.
What is LAF?
In a short video shown before she received a public interest award from Northwestern University's Law School, this attorney explained her decision to work at LAF by saying, “I wanted to do criminal defense but those jobs are really hard to come by, so I just took what I could get.”
Who is Kate Shank?
When a Jewish colleague responded to Jennifer Payne’s email by writing “Fo Shizzle,” Jennifer assumed “Fo Shizzle” was this.
What is Yiddish?
Cynthia Sadkin, who was alarmed to discover a hard protrusion near her rib cage, was relieved when her doctor identified the protrusion as this.
What is a rib?
As a Northwestern University law student, Bill Wilen got a conviction for escape overturned by arguing that his client, who had an epileptic seizure at the time of the escape, lacked this.
What was the requisite intent?
LAF attorney Monica Foucher shocked Tim Huizenga by mistakenly sending him an email with this subject line.
What is, “I’m wearing my black leather mini-skirt”?
Sheldon Roodman questioned the amount of money the West Side Office was spending on this.
What is toilet paper?
Neha Lall’s client, a subsidized housing resident, received a termination notice giving her 30 days to do this.
What is "put out"?
During SSI hearings, Administrative Law Judge Richard Palewicz repeatedly discounted written reports that psychologists submitted in support of our clients’ applications for disability benefits by shouting this.
What is, “Your psychologist needs a psychiatrist!”