Today, our bar association sent out an email to restart our listserv for the new year. It read, in essence, "If you are receiving this email, you are a member of the family law section. Do not reply to this email. If you no longer wish to be a member of the section, send an email to the address below. If you know of someone who would like to join the section, have them send an email to the address below." So, what happened? You guessed it. About 30 people replied to the email. Not only that, they replied that they wanted to be a member of the section and the listserv. After those 30 emails came through, then another 10 or so replied (to the email again), that all the responses clogged their inboxes, so remove their names until that problem with the listserv resolved. Really? Every member of this section is a lawyer. That means they graduated from college, then law school and then took the bar exam, all of which require extensive (wait for it) analytical reading skills. Yet, not one of these people read the email carefully or followed instructions. Scary. Even scarier is that probably half of the original 30 emails read and understood it, but panicked when they saw the first 15 responses, so they doubted what they read and hit "reply." The herd mentality. What does this mean for the Trenches (besides the obvious)? It means that just because everyone else does it, just because "everybody" got a certain result, doesn't mean that particular client will get that result or be able to do whatever everyone does. Everyone is different and so is every result. Look what the herd did today. Here in the Trenches.
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