Monday, July 10, 2006

lawyer competency

Now and then a news story makes you want to read it at least twice. Here's one, which is not so much a newspaper item as a summary of an appellate court decision from Michigan:

________ [name omitted to protect from further embarassment] v. City Attorney for the City of Ann Arbor. An applicant for an assistant city attorney position asserted his veterans-preference priority, but he didn't get the job. He sued, but didn't win his lawsuit, either. The appellate court explained that he failed to demonstrate his ability to perform the job at the level of skill and with the expertise required by the city attorney.


This doesn't explain whether he represented himself in the lawsuit. Whether he did or not, this will not look good on his resume.

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