Colossal Errors

I was at a conference about a month ago in Eugene Oregon. I went to a panel that was focusing on the Clean Water Act. The moderator was giving a description of all the recent cases and described one case where the lawyer would have won the case but he or she forgot to insert a couple of boiler plate lines in his complaint. I remember thinking ouch, but then thought that with all the shit you are supposed to remember an error seems inevitable.

I just made what I would consider to be a colossal error. I am working for an attorney that asked me to do something and I misunderstood what I was supposed to do and did something completely wrong.

The stress of having people's livelihoods in your hands is hard to describe. Waking up at two in the morning feeling gripped that you might have fucked something up is not much fun. I think maybe I should stick to representing plants and animals.