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Law Student Recalls Sabotage by Co-Worker
Posted Aug 28, 2009 8:03 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A law student who worked at a law firm during his undergraduate days says a co-worker there tried to sabotage him.
Law student Robert Beckler recounted the incident for the Rebel Yell, the student newspaper published by the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Beckler said he was asked to deliver important papers for a big case, but when he arrived he found the wrong papers had been substituted by his rival, another student.
“It was a terrible feeling to know that I put the correct papers in my bag, but they were changed,” Beckler told the newspaper. “Luckily, I took care of the situation and in the end got the last laugh. I got her fired.”
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B. McLeod
Aug 28, 2009 8:26 AM CST
The schemers and sabotuers are always out there, and many do become lawyers. This is not something the law schools even try to control, and the bar does not test for it. About the best anyone can hope for is that someday, maybe only after 20 or 25 years of practice, the bad ones will get caught doing something that rings the bell.
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Kalifornia Arnold
Aug 28, 2009 9:05 AM CST
That “rival” has (or had) a bright future in politics.
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LS
Aug 28, 2009 10:39 AM CST
How does this story qualify as “news”? Legion are the stories are dysfunctional law offices.
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LS
Aug 28, 2009 11:41 AM CST
Re #4. Sorry for the typo. What I wanted to say to the two readers of this comment is: How does this story qualify as “news”? Legion are the stories of dysfunctional law offices.
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khazeh
Aug 28, 2009 1:56 PM CST
Legion, too, are the stories of lawyers stealing from their clients, judges abusing their power, and law firms cutting back on summer hires, yet the ABA Journal continues to publish them. So what?
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