The antidote to Vickery

I would never tar an entire profession with the same brush, so I bear no specific enmity toward lawyers as a whole when I think about people like Andy Vickery. I have a lot of friends who are lawyers, and I don’t believe that having any of them end up on the bottom of the ocean would be a particularly good start to anything. They’re all pretty caring people, and the legal world (and the larger one) is lucky to have them. Still, it’s nice to know that my friends aren’t the only cool lawyers out there.

Marc Randazza, the anti-Vickery, wrote the famous Glenn Beck brief, and is proving that his awesomeness in that matter wasn’t a one-shot deal. He’s hilarious (although I wouldn’t want to date or work for him) in this interview. He also has a blog.

NIMBY-ism at its finest

Wow. Lawyer Andy Vickery hates homelessness so much, he’s suing a homeless shelter located in the church across the street from his office. His claim that he is suing because the shelter’s clients are disruptive, driving down property values, and are scaring off business would be easier to believe if he was only asking for the shelter to be shut down, or even for increased measures to control the homeless population who visit the shelter. The $250,000 that Vickery has requested makes him look ever so slightly like a greedy douchebag.