Saturday, March 01, 2008
Penny Pinch!
In these tough times, MYL has a way for you lawyers working in downtown Chicago (and we know you are out there!) to stretch your dollar by saving on lunches. You may know that the Chicago Bar Association offers unlimited continuing legal education for a $125 flat fee. What you may not know is that they provide free lunches for their lunchtime seminars. The Legal Editor (LE) discovered this when he attended such a seminar this past week and was provided with a variety of lunch selections. He chose the turkey sandwich (with some sort of flavored cheese, lettuce and tomato, on chiabutta (sp?) bread, with Lays (tm) potato chips, a fruit cup, and a cookie).
There's just one downside. Say you already have all your mandatory CLE credit and are just there for the content (or the lunch!). Say, during this seminar, you get a, um, distressing feeling. And say the seminar is one of those where they pretty much are just reading through their power point presentation, which they've already given you. If you decide to leave, everyone else will glare at you with anger that you are cheating on your mandatory CLE by signing up for a seminar and not "doing your time" and they'll dream of finding out who you are and reporting you to the bar licensing board and you can't shout "but I didn't put my name down for CLE credit" because then you'll make an even bigger spectacle out of yourself. Nobody said lunch was easy.
It turns out Monz was indeed at Leno's yesterday, not the Place! Leftovers + minneola.
In these tough times, MYL has a way for you lawyers working in downtown Chicago (and we know you are out there!) to stretch your dollar by saving on lunches. You may know that the Chicago Bar Association offers unlimited continuing legal education for a $125 flat fee. What you may not know is that they provide free lunches for their lunchtime seminars. The Legal Editor (LE) discovered this when he attended such a seminar this past week and was provided with a variety of lunch selections. He chose the turkey sandwich (with some sort of flavored cheese, lettuce and tomato, on chiabutta (sp?) bread, with Lays (tm) potato chips, a fruit cup, and a cookie).
There's just one downside. Say you already have all your mandatory CLE credit and are just there for the content (or the lunch!). Say, during this seminar, you get a, um, distressing feeling. And say the seminar is one of those where they pretty much are just reading through their power point presentation, which they've already given you. If you decide to leave, everyone else will glare at you with anger that you are cheating on your mandatory CLE by signing up for a seminar and not "doing your time" and they'll dream of finding out who you are and reporting you to the bar licensing board and you can't shout "but I didn't put my name down for CLE credit" because then you'll make an even bigger spectacle out of yourself. Nobody said lunch was easy.
It turns out Monz was indeed at Leno's yesterday, not the Place! Leftovers + minneola.
Comments:
Post a Comment
1 comments
