How come I submit clear, clean legal descriptions and exhibi maps to attorneys and by the time they're recorded with the attorney legalese, they show up as attachments that have been scanned at low resolution, copied with a wrinkle through them, crooked, almost unreadable in some cases? He just laughed and said that they work for what they want.
He's probably right but it still bugs me.
> How come I submit clear, clean legal descriptions and exhibi maps to attorneys and by the time they're recorded with the attorney legalese, they show up as attachments that have been scanned at low resolution, copied with a wrinkle through them, crooked, almost unreadable in some cases? He just laughed and said that they work for what they want.
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> He's probably right but it still bugs me.
I've had experience with the same bastardized legals but it's been at the hands of the title company. Professionalism is just out the window in many steps of the process these days.
It's just a piece of paper that gets checked off on a list....that's all it is.
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Lawyer Friend.
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Haw! I've known him since 6th grade...and he helps me with legal issues in exchange for beer rather than $100/ half hour.
...and I never miss the chance to forward him every lawyer joke that crosses my path.
Do you know how many lawyer jokes there are?
Four.
All the rest are true.
joke
Client: Will you answer three simple questions for five hundred dollars?
Lawyer: Yes, what are the other two?
My Favorite Lawyer Joke
Why do they bury Lawyers 12 feet deep?
Because, Deep Down, they are good people.
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Why can lawyers swim fearlessly in shark infested waters...professional courtesy
So, a lawyer is out golfing when he hears "FORE!" in the distance. All at once he gets beamed by a golf ball.
An old man walks up apologizing, but the lawyer is visible pissed.
The lawyer informs the old man he is going to sue him for 10,000 dollars!
"But", the old man counters, "I yelled FORE!"
"OK, it's a deal", said the lawyer.
😛
How many lawyers does it take to grease a corn picker? Just one, if you run him through really slow.
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It's the 99% of Lawyers that give the other 1% a bad name.
Another funny thing. WHen I first found the old RPLS board around 2001, every time someone referred to a Lawyer, they would type, L*%#yer. It was done so consistently, I thought it was actually a banned word.
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L@#%er is actually a cuss word here Perry. I almost never spell it out.
B-)
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> It's the 99% of Lawyers that give the other 1% a bad name.
Stealing this.
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I noticed that lawyers and title companies and who ever will not simply insert my pages into their form as attachments or not.
They all prefer to ask for my word file and put it on their own paper stock and sometimes letterheads.
During the process they often contact me to reword some phrase or input another reference.
Yeah, like that is going to happen.
Finally, I made a form letter and sent to them as an email that basically stated that if they make any revisions and/or changes in my property description as they input it into any of their legal forms, including "Property Description" on the first line, the full content of bearing basis and metes and bounds description and my name, date and certification in the last call, that they were taking all the responsibility and liability of the survey.
I have had to contact more than one surveyor to get a copy of their work, because the public record cannot be read.
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[Bevis....ON] Hee!Hee!he said "lawyer friend!!! Hee!! Hee! Hee!! [Bevis.....OFF} :clap:
Almost on topic.
We used the following notice for years in response to the County Clerk and Recorder routinely rubber stamping our plats and other documents as shown in the following note:
Notice: This plat has been determined to be of sufficient clarity and legibility
to be approved by the City of__________. It may bear the stamp
"POOR QUALITY DOCUMENT PROVIDED FOR REPRODUCTION"
which, if present, was placed hereon by the ____ County Clerk and
Recorder's Office. This stamp, if it appears hereon, is an indication of
the inability of the Clerk and Recorder's Office to create a scanned image
that is of comparable quality to the original document and is not an accurate
statement regarding the quality of the document presented for recording.
As far as I know they have given up the practise. Perhaps they obtained a new scanner!
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What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.