Brodie Butland @BMB_Esq Twitter profile

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Brodie Butland

3 years

About a year ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I’ve sworn this oath twice before, but there was something very special doing it as an Assistant US Attorney. I will never forget the importance of my promise to the country I love.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

. @Tunde_OD is trying to set a record for most consecutive hours playing chess in NYC’s Central Park without losing (58 consecutive hours). He’s raising money and awareness for @thegiftofchess , which gives disadvantaged children opportunities through chess. Def worth follows!

Tunde Onakoya

@Tunde_OD

3 months

Link to stream live and support:

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Brodie Butland

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@AnthonyMKreis Corollary: what about schools that didn’t admit POC until the second half of the 20th century? By definition, POC generally can’t benefit from a legacy policy there b/c their ancestors couldn’t legally attend that school.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

Just donated to support @Tunde_OD and this amazing (and world record-breaking) cause, and you can too:

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

. @Tunde_OD is trying to set a record for most consecutive hours playing chess in NYC’s Central Park without losing (58 consecutive hours). He’s raising money and awareness for @thegiftofchess , which gives disadvantaged children opportunities through chess. Def worth follows!

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

Cool local broadcast coverage of @Tunde_OD ’s chess marathon!

Chelsea Godmother 💰 🇺🇸 🇳🇬

@larmmy

3 months

Thank you @NBCNews New York for covering the chess marathon. @Tunde_OD , we're so proud of you. Naija to the world. 💃💃💃💃 #giftofchess #ChessInTheSlum

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If you aren’t following @Tunde_OD , you should. Remarkable man, remarkable backstory, and the number of children he has been able to raise up in just a matter of years will have a lasting impact for generations.

Chude Jideonwo

@Chude

8 months

What makes a 20 something year old who is living in deep, dark poverty give up his own personal dreams to ‘japa’ in order to teach chess to children in slums, for free? What madness causes that? Being in the presence of Tunde Onakoya is like being in the presence of a saint. I

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

A great article about @Tunde_OD ’s world record chess-a-thon set in Times Square. Amazing feat!

Tunde Onakoya Shatters Guinness World Record With Chess Marathon In Times Square

Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya suffered through physical discomfort and fatigue to break the world record for the longest chess marathon.

www.chess.com

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 months

@dog_rates Normally, it’s the # 1 spot that gets me…but having recently lost my beautiful boy collie, the tears started at # 2. RIP, Chauncey—one of the best in a world of good boys.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

“WTF were you thinking!?” moment in #lawtwitter . @ItsMattsLaw starts thread about Mario and Luigi’s general liability policy not covering most of what they do. I respond with the below. Two shroom dealers send auto-responses to me almost immediately. I’m a federal prosecutor.

Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@ItsMattsLaw Especially because they’re on shrooms most of the time.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

@DietCoke_Esq “We work hard but play hard” = we work hard and have substance abuse problems

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 months

This is an excellent, lay-accessible summary of the absolutely bizarre occurrences during the YSL trial over the past two days. Definitely worth a watch!

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@rebmasel

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part 1/5 (soooo many issues raised/comments made by the judge & attys can be covered but let’s call these the ✨basics✨) #FreeSteel

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@nomoreevictions @derek_debus And adjacent to that, you don’t underbus associates. If you delegate a case to them and they make an error because they didn’t know better, that’s on you. Take the hit, ask the court for forgiveness, and do a better job mentoring next time.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@USConst_Amend_I Over/under on how many of them have referred to themselves as “constitutional conservatives”?

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 months

But why aren’t millennials and Gen Z having more kids!?

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@MorePerfectUS

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These numbers are hard to fathom.

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Brodie Butland

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@LissaJoStewart @officespaceli Let me guess…social media bio says “Follower of Christ”?

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

@Tazerface16 I had my COVID shots in 2021-22, and I died as a result!

Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

Browder claimed a couple months ago that @donotpay was ready for a Supreme Court oral argument, yet he doesn’t even trust it to handle his own case in a New York trial court. If you want to know what someone actually believes, see what they do when they have skin in the game.

GryphonWatcher

@GryphonWatcher

1 year

Anyone still wondering whether @donotpay is a scam from @jbrowder1 should pay attention to one thing in particular: He had the chance to have his response drafted by his "robot lawyer" and instead hired two actual lawyers instead. Because he knows there is no robot lawyer.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@smmarotta Doesn’t top the legendary “I wonder if the judge will buy this????” that a co-clerk had the pleasure of reading, but still, yikes! (Epilogue: the judge did not, in fact, buy it.)

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@zachwolfelaw @clapifyoulikeme No, otherwise it would be called The Mayer Brown.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@heyitsalexsu Making your happiness dependent on the state of others is a guaranteed way to end up unhappy because someone will always have more than you. Regardless of what you use to measure success—wealth, titles, prestige, house size, awards, athletic accomplishments, degrees, etc.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@Tazerface16 I got calls from a wealth gospel church that was clearly targeted at seniors. I fucked with them to slow them down…reeled one for 45 min, and they were so eager to get off they said a payment went through when I gave a fake card number and my address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

@Tazerface16 I had a critter this morning. I don’t now…Chauncey crossed the rainbow bridge around noon today. Definitely a huge void that I’ll be feeling for a long time. Had a toast in his honor this afternoon.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

10 months

It is morally reprehensible to deliberately kill civilians. It is morally reprehensible to execute civilians. There is no “but also.” There is no “context.” There is no “understanding.” It’s reprehensible, period, end of sentence.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 years

A well-deserved win for a series that not only was superb TV, but generated a lot more interest in a superb game. Big thanks to @Kasparov63 for his input, which made the series especially enjoyable for chess players like me.

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

3 years

"The Queens Gambit" wins for best-limited series at the #Emmys

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 months

@derek_debus I was quite content not following this trial at all…now I’ve been roped in.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

11 months

@BadLegalTakes PSA: @BadLegalTakes is well aware that @3YearLetterman is a parody account. The bad legal take is the Community Notes.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

These takes on the Dominion settlement are driving me bonkers. Look—Dominion can only recover damages for one thing: their economic harm. They can’t recover damages for harm to democracy, or misleading your dad, or any other third party harm. Dominion’s harm, that’s it. 1/

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

4 months

Squat, deadlift, bench

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@JoMaddenSports

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@mindfullyemily @strowhiro Be kind to everyone—esp support staff. Also applies outside the office (eg servers when you go out to lunch). If nothing else out of self-interest…it costs you nothing but builds cred with people (incl decisionmakers), and people like working with those who make them feel good.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

8 months

@Tazerface16 How much you want to bet my reply to him gets hidden?

Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

8 months

@elonmusk “Our lawsuit experienced a rapid, unscheduled dismissal.”

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 months

@Jenny_IDLYITW @dog_rates Would celebrating African American History Month be political? What about Women’s History Month? What about Military Appreciation Month? Just want to confirm what types of people we can respect and/or celebrate apolitically.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@Popehat I think this would have been an equally valid response to the threat:

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

Tl;dr - Niemann’s biggest challenge is proving actual malice, which will be very difficult absent uncovering convincing documents in discovery. He may be able to offer strong evidence that he didn’t cheat, but he’s unlikely to overcome the legal barriers to prove defamation. /end

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@SilentSamIAm One of the goddamn book titles is “Frog and Toad Are Friends.” JFC on a pogo stick….

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@SHigginbottom @ItsMattsLaw I thought I was done with business development when I left private practice.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

So…figured as part of #lawchesstwitter I would weigh in on the Hans Niemann lawsuit—I also strongly recommend reading @AkivaMCohen ‘s analysis, which is excellent and covers procedural issues I don’t address. I limit my commentary on the defamation claim only. /1

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

11 months

@3YearLetterman And the Community Note made @BadLegalTakes

Bad Legal Takes

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

4 years

@Kasparov63 When you started that game, did @Schwarzenegger say to you: “I’ll be blahck”?

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Brodie Butland

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2 years

@ItsMattsLaw Fake news. No way big law firms were demanding their associates have personality.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@DietCoke_Esq One person told my black female friend that she got in to the law school through affirmative action. She graduated 8th in a class of 222.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

11 months

Tree-fiddy for 5! Traditionally in my training history, 350 is when things stall…very glad to see we’re still rolling!

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

The real-world benefits of heavy strength training, a thread:

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 years

Law students: this is true. I’ve worked with miserable attys, but I’ve also worked with solid ones who were also good people. Many of us work for a world where there are more of the latter. If you’re talking to an atty who discourages you, find someone else to talk to.

Liz Gil

@LizCGil

3 years

Law students: for every terrible atty who says to just shut up and deal with it, there are MANY of us who see you, care about you, and want to change what you’re enduring so that no one else has to. I know it may not feel like it, but we exist, and we want you in this profession.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@Adamcopes The only proper response.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@embel713 My security check was held up in part because Great Britain never stamped my passport when I left from a vacation in 2013. Clearly I got back to the US, there was just no record of it on the passport.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@jbrowder1 @sanktop “There’s no legal or ethical problem whatsoever with this…but we definitely don’t want to tell the judge about it.”

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@BadLegalTakes Affirmative defense: disclosing Pettito’s vitality and health status would have violated her HIPPA rights.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@ItsMattsLaw I just won summary judgment, but I’m appealing. Complacency breeds losers. #neverstopgrinding

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@beachmuscles @SS_strength So in other words, you think a 300 lbs squat is dangerous. I am in awe of your masculinity.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

11 months

@LissaJoStewart Yeah, but Maria has done her own research!

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

Exactly this. I *want* a good legal AI tool to help with my own work, and I *want* a low cost legal service for ppl who can’t afford it. What I don’t want are swindlers who make false promises and are dismissive of legit questions or critiques. That’s worse for ppl than no tool.

Kathryn Tewson

@KathrynTewson

1 year

@AlexHamiltonRad @juliesaltman tl;dr: forget debates turning into takedowns. We should be able to have conversations on issues of effectiveness, robustness, security, and accountability in legal tech without it becoming a debate, because debates are between opposing sides.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

8 months

@Tazerface16 You’re assuming there’s going to be discovery. I’m still not convinced this gets past a motion to dismiss.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

4 months

11-year Clevelander here…can confirm.

McNeil

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looking out my window at “the first day of spring”

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Brodie Butland

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3 years

@Alex2Wright @JulieOwenMoylan Here’s a “modus operandi” for the workplace: if you say or do something to a female co-worker that would make you nervous if HR was in the room, then you probably shouldn’t say/do it. Come to think about it, it really isn’t that hard, is it?

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@aubredean @LizCGil As I’ve said elsewhere, many law firms and esp Biglaw not only expect overwork, but glorify it. It becomes a badge of honor to miss kids’ birthday parties, not take parental leave, and never have a non-working vacation. That’s one of the reasons why I left it behind.

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Brodie Butland

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5 months

@LizCGil Free legal advice…never use the term “employee” and “unpaid” in the same document.

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Brodie Butland

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2 years

@malumpr0hibitum I would have made an exceptional proctologist.

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@Mrpossidez One of the greatest benefits of having children—it reawakens the positivity, curiosity, and wisdom that we tend to lose as we get older.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 years

Unless there is Taco Bell at the finish line, how exactly is marijuana a performance-enhancing drug for sprinting?

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3 years

USA's Sha'Carri Richardson won't be allowed to run in the Olympic 100-meter race due to a one-month ban for a positive marijuana test, but she could compete in relays

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

The story of @Tunde_OD and the children he has helped is incredible and should be more widely known. Take a read if you want to be inspired today.

T. K. Rengarajan 🇺🇸

@trengarajan

3 years

1/ This is the story of Tunde Onakoya ( @Tunde_OD ), an inspiring young Nigerian cheetah, who runs Chess in Slums ( @chessinslums ), intensely changing lives through chess. But first, let me share some context for my excitement about Tunde’s work.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

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@legalshmendrik Former law firm partner here. IMO, passion, grit, and creativity stood out most to me, probably because they’re much less teachable qualities…for the most part, you have them or you don’t.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@Kate_MLA_SF Figure out your own system—don’t make law school an effort to keep up with the Joneses. Some ppl swear by study groups, others hate them. Some study in the library, some can’t. Etc. Only one universal rule: get your sleep…otherwise you’ll burn out.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 months

Five jobs I’ve had: -Attorney -Math teaching assistant -Baseball umpire -Engineering rep for asbestos abatement projects -Strength coach

Mr. Possible

@Mrpossidez

3 months

Five jobs I’ve had— - Teacher (English, History, Literature); - Library Assistant; - Car Washer; - Builder; - Trader; and - Lawyer.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

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@TheJoeySwoll When I ask a stranger to spot me, I give quick instructions. Eg. bench press, “don’t touch the bar unless it’s moving in the wrong direction.” Even if they screwed that up, I wouldn’t post a video of them on social media. “Influencers” is the worst thing that happened to fitness.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 years

Yesterday, I saw a tweet that was so shockingly stupid that the ancient Greeks probably didn’t have a word for it. So you know what I did? I ignored it, checked the rest of my feed, and then went to bed without concern that someone on the internet was wrong.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

3 years

Everyone I’ve ever seen ask “why would you ever need to squat 3 plates?” has never squatted 3 plates. Tell ya what…get your squat (legit depth) to 315, then let me know if it hasn’t actually improved your life.

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Controversial opinion: Lifting weights and other forms of working out is like mining bitcoin: A waste of energy that should be used for physical activity that accomplishes a worthwhile goal

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@BMB_Esq

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Five-O-O, to tie an all-time PR from nearly 7 years ago! Hat tip to @zachwolfelaw for the swag, which was worth at least 15 lbs! #StartingStrength #ZachWolfeLawFirmWeightliftingClub

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

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@elonmusk “Our lawsuit experienced a rapid, unscheduled dismissal.”

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@Tazerface16 If you would have told me before 2022 that one of my favorite photos of all time was taken sitting in coach on a plane…

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

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@CoachJpM3 @SS_strength @aaronwood_sc Yeah, someone over at @SS_strength should really come up with a book that discusses different kinds of programming depending on your current training status and biological and lifestyle restrictions…

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@theotherone723 @ASRothstein Then (1) he was a shitty planner, or (2) he didn’t think of the time difference; see (1).

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

Over 90% of the population can and should squat and deadlift. Corollary: fitness “influencers” who are vehemently against squatting or deadlifting, either in general or for large subgroups (eg “anyone over 40”), don’t know how to coach those lifts.

𝐏𝐎𝐉𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐓 | 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑

@_iampoje

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Unpopular gym opinions that would get you in this position?

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1 year

@KSVesq OCI: Hey, I’ve got a really shitty idea on how to hire new employees! Match Day: Hold my Guinness.

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@LawTrades @ItsMattsLaw Here are some I’ve actually heard. -“She doesn’t have to work here.” (FLSA was at issue) -“I’m not worried about standing.” -“This is a slam dunk.” -“I don’t think that’s relevant.” -“Let me explain this more.” (fine when talking to me…but this was in a deposition)

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@ItsMattsLaw Especially because they’re on shrooms most of the time.

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2 years

@KSVesq The soft bigotry of low expectations. Though in observing generational differences in parenting, I’m cautiously optimistic that when millennials become the old farts, involved fathers will be seen as a default rather than something worthy of praise.

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@stem_feed It’s really too bad humans lack any musculature that could hold a spine in neutral extension while picking up an object in front of them.

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@yoadri_n Your employer sees you as replaceable. They might say otherwise, but they do. Approach your life accordingly. (This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t take pride in your work, work hard, or enjoy your work…you should…but look out for yourself first because no one else will.)

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Brodie Butland

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2 years

@AYoungStoic @nntaleb Known side effects of COVID-19 include cardiac problems too, and at worse rates and worse clinical outcomes than mRNA vaccines. Yet you didn’t write “a wave of injuries tracks COVID infections,” or even suggest that as a possibility. I’m pretty sure I don’t need to guess why.

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@ryanmckeen When I was clerking for a federal judge, we knew a handful of lawyers that played fast and loose with cases and the factual record, and we read their stuff over far more carefully (and invariably they fibbed again). Don’t be those lawyers, folks.

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@pasimism @BadLegalTakes Defense attorneys generally don’t assert their client’s innocence, they assert that the prosecution hasn’t proven guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A defendant can be factually guilty but legally not guilty.

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Brodie Butland

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1 year

@mindfullyemily @strowhiro Ask for the specific parameters of what your assigning attorney wants and the deadline for it…because the attorney may not. Do they want a memo or just an email summary? What issues do they want to know and what issues should you ignore? When in doubt, ask follow up questions.

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Brodie Butland

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2 years

@ahimsamediation @mch_tweets And many of us would still go to law school again because we really enjoy being attorneys. As incoming law students will quickly learn, the answer to most questions is: “it depends.” Including the question “should I go to law school?”

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Brodie Butland

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1 year

@beachmuscles That’s quite a word salad to say that you can’t coach a deadlift. @SS_strength

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1 year

I maintain that this is a first-ballot Hall of Fame dad joke.

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@freelancelawmom I’ve fortunately avoided the terminally silly questions. But my brother got this one: would you mop the floors at night to work here? Fairly well-regarded firm, asked during callbacks. He said no and didn’t get an offer…and he was not upset about that.

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Brodie Butland

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2 years

@FrMatthewLC So then surely the Catholic League will be writing an article calling former Pres Trump’s marriage to Melania a “legal fiction” since he wasn’t married in the Church and didn’t get an annulment for the previous two marriages, right? Right?!

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Brodie Butland

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2 years

@portersaid @AshleyGWinter We opened the diaper, exposed the nethers to the air, and then put the diaper back for 20 seconds to avoid getting peed on during changing. For being so little, those infant boys pack quite a firehose!

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@BMB_Esq

10 months

@TheWall78558050 @Tazerface16 @CCDude8 It’s also legal (at least in America) for Russell Brand to wear a swastika and yell “death to the Jews” while marching in a neighborhood full of Holocaust survivors. But he’d be a creepy fucking asshole for doing it, and sane people would have no problem saying so.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@NikNature @Schwarzenegger I’m not @Schwarzenegger , but I’ve lifted for years. Some days you just show up. But you might surprise yourself and crush it even though it feels like garbage. And even if not, bad days often lead to good days. Try to keep perspective—you’re playing the long game. Off days are ok

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

Reports of the death of the Rule Against Perpetuities has been greatly exaggerated…

Reid Wilson

@PoliticsReid

1 year

The day before Florida lawmakers voted to create a new board overseeing Disney, the Disney-aligned old board passed an agreement basically neutering the new one, to be in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of King Charles (?!?)

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

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@pasimism @BadLegalTakes I would disagree it’s just semantics. We require that the state prove guilt BRD to take someone’s freedom away…we deliberately do not require the defendant to even assert—let alone prove—innocence. This is why a not-guilty defendant can still be held civilly liable (eg OJ).

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

@joelisprudence In most circumstances, no. However, emergencies sometimes arise—client emergencies, trials, hearings, oh-shit moments, etc. I’d try to (subtly, professionally) figure out which this is…b/c if this is going to become A Thing, I’d say start looking elsewhere.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

2 years

Evidently hearsay is the latest legal Twitter topic, and unsurprisingly the armchair lawyers keep consistently getting it wrong. So here’s a free (albeit simplified) lesson on hearsay—what it is and what it isn’t—to help non-lawyers make sense of this concept. 1/11

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

4 months

We won a war and then ratified a constitutional amendment so that, among other things, comedians can make jokes about British aristocrats without being arrested or held civilly liable.

Royal News Network

@RNN_RoyalNews

4 months

If true, it’s long overdue. Rose and her family deserve better than have people needlessly drag her into media concocted narrative. It deserves to be stated again, there is no affair and there has never been an affair.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

When a BigLaw attorney is informed of their SuperLawyers selection.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

5 months

@Tazerface16 Not sure that’s a fair comparison…my oldest is 7 and he is far more eloquent.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

1 year

@randolphkwatson @Chazman1189 @KathrynTewson @Amyrhymeswith @Wolfof53rdSt @notSFMuni @LuisRoman26 @s_carchidi @PromoteJunkie Allow me to introduce you to Rule 11.

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

11 months

@KathrynTewson @donotpay @jbrowder1 I would ask for information about the role, but…

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Brodie Butland

@BMB_Esq

9 months

Folks, no one is giving drugs to kids on Halloween. I don’t care what you saw on Facebook or this hellscape…it hasn’t happened and it isn’t happening. This is the razor-blades-in-candy fearmongering I heard in the 1980s-90s in a slightly fancier but still cheap suit.

Rebekah Howell

@bekahowell

9 months

1. With the drug crisis as bad as it is, it’s insane to allow kids to take and eat candy from complete strangers. You know how many drug dealers disguise their drugs as candy? Plus, all the candy goes in the same basket so you have no way of knowing which candy came from where.

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