I just recently realized that my credit history says I was an attorney in 2002. Technically I was legally able to practice but truth be told I was not COMPENTANT at being an attorney and not interested. In 2002 I worked for legal temp agencies. IN particular I worked with a firm based on the east coast that could get me temp work in Los Angeles. I did a few jobs at 3 or four different firms from 2002 to 2003. Most of the jobs were more receptionist, clerk, research positions. However one PATENT firm tried to dump a case on me that they had neglected. It was a TORT action and not intellectual property. I found documents telling me they tried to dump the client. They wanted me to put my name on a filing with the court that was LATE. I looked up the relevant ethics laws only to discover that a lawyer filing these documents in a late fashion could get penalized financially and or punished by the court and the state bar. I went to the lawyer who originally was on the case and told him I would not put my name on the documents. He told me the judge said the late filing would be fine. I said if so why does not he put his name on it. He told me either sign the documents or I was fired and that he was going to be a named partner with the firm. I told him I quit. I was not there to be a practicing lawyer. I was there to do TEMP WORK PERIOD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think he was sacrificing my law license for his career. I was there as a temp. I was not there to be a practicing lawyer with clients. They were paying me $25 an hour. I look back on this and wonder if they were trying to get me kicked out of the bar. If that had happened. I would have not moved back east. I would have lost trust in everyone including lawyers and ended up on the street or suicidal. I especially do not trust what happened because in law school my study partners were patent lawyers and based on conversations we had I did not trust them. they told me stories of how they got back at other people and I had no stories to tell. I am not the kind of person who thinks about revenge or thinks that going after someone who has hurt me is right. I was at that firm just to make a pay check and not to build a career as a practicing lawyer, especially in PATENT LAW. I had no interested in intellectual property except in the arts and entertainment. I was not a scientist or computer programmer. I was always more into arts and humanities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The year I worked as a legal temp in Los Angeles left a bitter taste in my mouth. I ended up quitting, and in August of 2003, I took a job on “THE PRACTICE” playing a reporter. I spent the next 5 years working on sets and being a background artist, stand in, laugher, paid audience member, and actor. I also did a few odd jobs here and there and writing assignments. I did not however have anything to do with lawyers or law firms. In 2014 I found myself being listed on websites as if I had my own law firm and I contacted the state bar and told them I was not practicing. I was inactive and it would be an ETHICS VIOLATION for me to represent clients. I had my only way of getting hired and having a career destroyed when I was WRONGFULLY terminated from sets. I would never go back to FRANK KOH and I am so sick of this insane gas lighting. I needed a mentally healthy life. TO ME THAT MEANT I worked doing things I loved to do. I never loved being a lawyer nor did I ever want to be in court or dealing with conflict. I wanted to be like DAVID E KELLY and create stories. I did not want to be in a real court or in a law firm. I WAS NEVER QUALIFIED TO BE A REAL ATTORNEY. I am a LAWYER. I did graduate law school. I AM NOT DELUSIONAL FOR SAYING I AM AN ACTOR. The people gas lighting me as crazy are delusional thinking I will be hired and survive without an acting career. THOUGH MAYBE CASSANDRA TAYLOR and JEREMY GILBREATHE will have a party when they hear I am GONE as in dead. I am not leaving Los Angeles and I have no interest in having the AMERICAN DREAM. ACTING was the source of my ambition. Law and money and power were never my goal. I wanted to be creative and happy and not argumentative. I HATE FIGHTING and I HATE CONFLICT. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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