Remember, Law Twitter and the Spednaught mainly stems from lawyers who made their bones on the Internet from mocking idiot sovcits and birthers and other complete assclowns whose lolsuits got nearly invariably chucked out of court on 12(b)(6) motions, so now they assume any lawsuit they don't like is one of the same.
It's pretty easy to get arrogant when your whole Internet "legal practice" is dunking on schizophrenic frivolous litigants where all you have to do is predict they get thrown out of court on a 12(b) motion of some sort and you'll be right every time.
I think we're actually a level or generation removed from that. It's almost like a cargo cult where there might be a few of the old guard remaining that know their stuff and have grown a little lazy, but the bulk of newer members who weren't around in the old days just seem to be idiots thirsty for attention and Twitter ass-pats that have just taken on the behavior without really understanding anything beyond that.
You look at someone like Greg who quite literally spent just about every waking moment on Twitter one day last October (and clearly on several other occasions as well) and tell me that he actually has any time to review the cases or law being discussed.
And if you think that's bad, look at one of the other lawspeds that has a
thread here. 862 tweets. If he stayed up for 24 hours straight he'd still have to tweet more than once every two minutes just to hit that number.
I don't believe Mike Dunford has a thread, but it appears that Weeb Wars has brought him into full bloom as well. Only 413 tweets (merely a single tweet every two and half minutes assuming 7 hours for sleep and other necessities), but just look at the before and after. It's quite clear when the exceptional awakening began.
Maybe there are still a few worthwhile lawyers whose opinions are worth listening to left, but at this point they're in the minority and they haven't taken care to remove the idiots from their midst. We know Greg has nothing better to do with his time and even though he's willing to give away his service for free, he still can't get clients on a regular basis.
Just for fairness, here's Nick's graph. His peak day (which on further examination appears to be arguing with a lot of different people about Meyer v. Waid) is much closer to Low-T's average day. It almost looks like even though he doesn't try to take many cases he's busy putting together and running a three-hour show or playing with his kids or something.
Just one more fun. Only 4 tweets tops on a given day and week long stretches of nothing. I bet this is a lawyer whose motions look fucking pristine, organized immaculately, with well thought out arguments, and plenty of citations to relevant case law. I'll bet that suave gentleman even files on time.
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