T. Greg Doucette / Thomas Gregory Doucette / greg_doucette / TGDLaw / fsckemall / lawdevnull / TDot - Super Lawyer, Failed Politician, Captain of The Threadnought, Drowning in Debt

[JamFlowMan]

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archived 18 Jun 2019 18:21:09 UTC

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Edit - here is a related quote from a Web article archived a week ago. Sorry if I missed it in this thread:

'Without student housing, Doucette found himself essentially homeless. His girlfriend at the time, Teresa Nichols, let him use her dorm during the day to shower. "He'd sleep in his truck some nights, the library some nights," says Nichols, who went on to work for Senate leader Phil Berger and Senator Harry Brown, both influential Republicans. "After three months or so, I put enough money aside for us to get an apartment together."'

So even back then he was making other people pay for his shit. What did people like this do before the internet? Would Greg have just become a drifter if crowdfunding didn't exist?

 

[Immortal Technique]

For a guy who will bring up his experience of being abused at home by a single mother and step dad, and his experience with being homeless, he's ironically probably placing his kid in a similar circumstance to his own.

To be fair, if T. Greg Doucette was my father, I wouldn't want to know him either. I'd rather claim he was dead or I'm a bastard than own up to him being related to me.

It's less embarassing to say your mom is a whore and you don't know your dad, than admit Doucette is.

 

[DogEatDogFood]

I like to consider myself an enthusiast of knowing the political ideologies of the lolcows. There is a whole spectre of autism there. For those patient enough for reading Greg's exceptionally long Tweets, what really makes this guy a conservative? Because for what I saw this guy is literal controlled opposition that is only a conservative in name

 

[anionfarflung]

So even back then he was making other people pay for his shit. What did people like this do before the internet? Would Greg have just become a drifter if crowdfunding didn't exist?

Q: "What do you call a Deadhead with no girlfriend?"
A: "Homeless"

 

[Slimy Time]

I like to consider myself an enthusiast of knowing the political ideologies of the lolcows. There is a whole spectre of autism there. For those patient enough for reading Greg's exceptionally long Tweets, what really makes this guy a conservative? Because for what I saw this guy is literal controlled opposition that is only a conservative in name

If you read the article, it's clear that he labelled himself a Republican after his mum continuously sent him to his old school Democrat grandparents to get him away from the abuse - "Ever since I was a kid, I was independent-minded and just wanted to be left alone," he says. "I didn't care for my family environment. I was begging to be emancipated at the age of twelve.'" It really comes off as him becoming a Republican because "well, my shitty parents are dems, so I will support the opposite". He also mentions Reagan and HW Bush as somewhat inspirations. Apparently his county GOP kicked him out for being a sperg.

Apparently he did say this about the Born-Alive bill: “If a parent doesn’t feed their newborn and it dies, they get charged with murder,” said Greg Doucette, a Durham-based criminal defense attorney, to PolitiFact. “I don’t see why a medical provider would be substantively different.”

 

[ShortRound]

If you read the article, it's clear that he labelled himself a Republican after his mum continuously sent him to his old school Democrat grandparents to get him away from the abuse - "Ever since I was a kid, I was independent-minded and just wanted to be left alone," he says. "I didn't care for my family environment. I was begging to be emancipated at the age of twelve.'" It really comes off as him becoming a Republican because "well, my shitty parents are dems, so I will support the opposite". He also mentions Reagan and HW Bush as somewhat inspirations. Apparently his county GOP kicked him out for being a sperg.

Apparently he did say this about the Born-Alive bill: “If a parent doesn’t feed their newborn and it dies, they get charged with murder,” said Greg Doucette, a Durham-based criminal defense attorney, to PolitiFact. “I don’t see why a medical provider would be substantively different.”

Hes whatever the political winds dictate, I doubt he has many deeply held beliefs

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Hes whatever the political winds dictate, I doubt he has many deeply held beliefs

A cynic would say, that's the MO of 95% of all politicians, regardless of being on a state or federal level.

 

[anionfarflung]

Hes whatever the political winds dictate, I doubt he has many deeply held beliefs

I don't know how much stock people put in these, but FWIW:

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archived 19 Jun 2019 01:23:57 UTC

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[Pham]

I found this on accident. It's a bunch of case files and pdf tutorials. I don't know anything about how websites work so I'm just going to assume I'm a leet haxor.
http://www.tgdlaw.com/docs/

 

[TherapyMan]

I'm a criminal defense lawyer and have been practicing law for 5 years now. What the general public does not know is that unlike how tv shows portray things, 99% of us do not have high rise offices in bank buildings or drive around in fancy sports cars. Ever since the 2008 market crash, jobs in this field have been a lot harder to come by. Where I practice at, you actually have some people who have graduated near the top of their class competing tooth and nail just to get a job at the freaking public defender's office. These days, a "law degree" and five dollars will get you a cup of coffee at starbucks. Just because someone says "I'm a lawyer", that is not grounds to be impressed in this day and age. Fact is that we got way too many of them running around and that much less cases/jobs available as a result.

Another thing worth noting is that the your class rank and alma mater essentially determines your earning potential. Unlike most other professional fields, the rank and prestige of your school matters a lot. If you're a lawyer who attended one of the top schools in country (usually referred to as the T14), you're generally set for a well-paying job (if you want it; some would prefer to do public lawyering, which by and large doesn't make much) as long as you didn't bottom out the curve. The lower you go on the U.S. News Rankings, the less career opportunities you will have, the less transferable your J.D. will be to other parts of the country, and the better you have to perform in order to be competitive for most positions. Usually your career prospects are generally good if you're within the Top 50, decent if you're within the Top 75 and the school has good regional power, and really slim if you're outside that. If you're a low-ranking student at a low-ranked law school, without some serious networking skills, you're fucked and will basically be forced to take whatever work you can to scrounge by (see: The Douche). You're not going to be making the $180,000 BigLaw starting salary, you're probably not even going to be picked up by a firm, and unless you really hustle professionally, you probably never will.

There's a reason why there's a million different articles basically screaming at people not to become lawyers. Good jobs paying jobs are by no means guaranteed by a law degree, even at a "good" program, and the cost of tuition is astronomical ($27,591 on average per year at public schools, $49,095 at private). Going into $160,000 dollars' worth of debt to make $60,000 is by no means a sound financial decision.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

That article fills in almost all the gaps. Good find. Let's see if we can piece this together.

He apparently did two years at NC State on scholarship (98-00) that didn't cover room and board and his parents went lolno at filling out a FAFSA. Dropped out and spent 2-ish years unloading UPS trucks and being some kind of legal clerk assistant for 4 (which he got fired from). When his gf kicked him to the curb in 2006 (roughly around when he got fired and excommunicated from the county GOP for being a sperg) he went MAX STUDENT LOANS for the next 6-7 years finishing his undergrad (06-9) and law school (10-12).

According to the OP after law school is when he started his NCSPICE bullshit that didn't go anywhere. Then his scampaign for NC Senate (15-16), then bankruptcy (17) because he paid for it with credit cards, then twitter irrelevance ever since.

Also, in rereading the OP, this guy is classic clear-cut deadbeat dad. He knocked up his HS girlfriend and skipped town for NC State at 17 then proceeded to not have a real job for the last 20 years getting by mostly mooching off of his perma-gfs or taking out student loans larger than the GDP of several Latin American countries.

What a winner at life.

...I don't know what to make of this. I thought he was just a dork before, but the juxtapositions in his life are baffling.

So despite having a formidable combo in degrees (law + computer science), he not only makes less than his doctor eternal girlfriend, but he makes less than a blue collar worker. Despite parading the fact that he's a "computer scientist", he didn't bother to at least establish a respectable living doing something that involved his first degree-- which probably wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world if he was able to explain what a binary tree is (at minimum).

He got his high school girlfriend pregnant and then peaced out? I mean, does that kind of person even bother at any point with trying to become a lawyer? And if he made a living loading boxes and then being a clerk assistant, then why even bother with student loans (at least, during undergrad) when he'd probably qualify for a sizable Pell Grant and also state-specific financial aid?

Rather than being a deadbeat, it seems more like he burned out along the way into current form for reasons that are still a mystery. And it's a strange kind of burnout, at that.

It's possible that I overestimated the profession, and-- given some of the recent comments above me-- misunderstood the particularities of the field.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Rather than being a deadbeat, it seems more like he burned out along the way into current form for reasons that are still a mystery. And it's a strange kind of burnout, at that.

No, he is a deadbeat. Clear as day. He never has held a job or worked in a meaningful way. Unloading UPS freight trucks at the facility is the lowest job you can have with them. Like, they get actual tards to do that work. Then he got a gig as essentially the Walmart greeter at the country courthouse. Got fired for talking shit about a judge. Then he got coffee for some lawyers. Then college and law school. Then sweet fuckall.

I highly doubt he has made more than $40k in a year his entire life.

Also of note, with an exception of a 3-4 year period during undergrad he has had a steady live-in gf who is doing substantially better than him. That, I think, is how he has managed to get by through the years. Attaching himself as a parasite to other more successful people while simultaneously putting on a big show by worming his way into volunteer positions as chairman of this meaningless group and director of that inconsequential thingamagig or just plain making up an organization so he can be the head of it.

 

[AnOminous]

Attaching himself as a parasite to other more successful people while simultaneously putting on a big show by worming his way into volunteer positions as chairman of this meaningless group and director of that inconsequential thingamagig or just plain making up an organization so he can be the head of it.

Publicly making a gigantic ass of himself with palpably idiotic hot takes is not going to help him in the long run, however much he may like the dopamine in the moment.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I really wish we could see the quality of his legal work. If it's anything like the rest of his life, then it probably makes Kevin Landau look top-tier. At least Landau's only an alcoholic, this guy's life appears to have been irredeemably fucked up years ago.

 

[Immortal Technique]

I really wish we could see the quality of his legal work. If it's anything like the rest of his life, then it probably makes Kevin Landau look top-tier. At least Landau's only an alcoholic, this guy's life appears to have been irredeemably fucked up years ago.

Here is his current case load for June:

Calendars / Civil Calendars Query by Attorney Bar Number

www1.aoc.state.nc.us

Can you only retrieve the docs from a clerk of county office (from any county)? Does North Carolina not have an online version like TX?

 

[Spectre_06]

I want to apologize to everyone. I lied.

For years I told people that since i made it through Parris Island and Quantico, that anyone could do it. Douchette proved that isn't the case, and thus for years I have told groups of poolees this lie. I am ashamed to have besmirched the uniform and name of the United States Marine Corps with my actions.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

I found this on accident. It's a bunch of case files and pdf tutorials. I don't know anything about how websites work so I'm just going to assume I'm a leet haxor.
http://www.tgdlaw.com/docs/

Someone didn't disable directory listing for several directories it looks like.

And yes, finding that does make you a leet haxor in the eyes of incompetent college IT departments who leave sensitive student and teacher info in such directories...

Edit: Don't know how relevant a thread it is to pull, but it seems based on the directory contents he may have been involved in some way with the "Moral Mondays" protests in NC.

 

[Slimy Time]

I really wish we could see the quality of his legal work. If it's anything like the rest of his life, then it probably makes Kevin Landau look top-tier. At least Landau's only an alcoholic, this guy's life appears to have been irredeemably fucked up years ago.

@Pham found some of his stuff.

I found this on accident. It's a bunch of case files and pdf tutorials. I don't know anything about how websites work so I'm just going to assume I'm a leet haxor.
http://www.tgdlaw.com/docs/

 

[Immortal Technique]

12 hours a day/7 days a week of non-stop tweeting this sperg has added a grand total of......

*DRUMROLL*

Spoiler: Big payday!

An added $33 in patreon livelihood monies

6-June $707

T. Greg Doucette is creating a talk show about our broken justice sys…

archived 6 Jun 2019 19:10:25 UTC

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19-June $740

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archived 19 Jun 2019 02:38:02 UTC

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You're going to make it big time very soon Low-T. You're on the cusp of greatness!

 

[Stoneheart]

I think, is how he has managed to get by through the years. Attaching himself as a parasite to other more successful people while simultaneously putting on a big show by worming his way into volunteer positions as chairman of this meaningless group and director of that inconsequential thingamagig or just plain making up an organization so he can be the head of it.

thats alot of words to descripe a stay at home mom--
his GF just told him to do something for the community, after she saw all the money he was burning with his other projects.