why legal proofreading is important

lilbangladesh

This is something that I ran across at work. It's too bad that it went to a judge before I had a chance to look at it. All identifying names have been removed.

This is a direct quote:

"Plaintiff moves the court for a continuance of the trial for the reason that counsel for the plaintiff is recovering from dick surgery and because of continuing pain is unable to properly represent the plaintiff in a trial. Counsel is unable to sit for long periods of time."

It should read DISK surgery. Counsel had surgery on his BACK.

Oops!

caseopele

Nice one!

daver

Subject: Re: why legal proofreading is important

lilbangladesh wrote: This is something that I ran across at work. It's too bad that it went to a judge before I had a chance to look at it. All identifying names have been removed.

This is a direct quote:

"Plaintiff moves the court for a continuance of the trial for the reason that counsel for the plaintiff is recovering from dick surgery and because of continuing pain is unable to properly represent the plaintiff in a trial. Counsel is unable to sit for long periods of time."

It should read DISK surgery. Counsel had surgery on his BACK.

Oops!

Looks familiar, could swear I've seen it before...

*searches* Oh yeah.

http://www.legaljuice.com/disc surgery.pdf

It went to a judge before you had a chance to look at it? In Florida? In 2005? Er, OK then. I think I must be misinterpreting your post a bit. It definitely is funny though...

sprite

Undoubtedly the lawyer serving those papers was citing the Florida request as precedence.

livetotravel

how embarrassing (meant to be interpreted in several ways) :oops:

apollonia666

I'd heard that "dick surgery" one before too...

My favorite ever:

carnivore

[quote=apollonia666]My favorite ever:



Am I missing something? I don't get it.

stacey

read second paragraph, line 5
he/she must be an associate and not partner

carnivore

stacey wrote: read second paragraph, line 5
he/she must be an associate and not partner

lilbangladesh

Whoops. My bad. I found it in my cubicle at work and I thought the guy before me had just xeroxed something that he looked at and stuck it up.

We often do proofread old documents as they get rescanned, so that wouldn't have been weird. The other day, I was proofreading some airplane rental agreement with a company in Chile dated from 1998.

Whoever was doing the inputting must have had a dirty mind, though. When the original document became illegible, words like "rectum" got inputted instead.