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*I should preface this with a note that I am being forced into doing this, and wasn't happy going in. That being said....*
10. To all the older lawyers who signed in, left, came back, signed in again for the afternoon and left again: I appreciate that you have learned to play the system. That being said, this doesn't really help our ethical image as a Bar Association after that whole 'Head of OBA Ethics Committee Arrested for Sex Assault' thing. Or the Diddling Judge. I'm just saying.
9. Its a bad sign when the hotel staff feels the need to leave complimentary pillows in the back by the door.
8. For what we are paying, the conference room should have outlets for laptops. Because seriously, its almost 2009, kids. A lot of us have them. And would like to have been able to use them.
7. Also, the hotel wanting to charge $12.95 per DAY for wireless access is bull. I paid $9.95 for a three MONTH subscription at the Cincinnatti airport. Not all of us have a crack berry.
6. Having speakers who spend 10 of their 50 minutes whining about being in the afternoon when no one will pay attention due to digestive torpor and quoting journal studies on that subject doesn't make me want to play closer attention.
5. Since more of us are just going to toss the manuals anyways, why not put them on CDs and create a sign up option where you can choose a paper copy. The CD would be WAY cheaper.
4. If you are going to introduce the speakers, introduce them all. Not every third one. It made the transitions messy.
3. CLE would probably make a good drinking game. I may develop that tomorrow.
2. I would gladly be there until 3:45 in exchange with more frequent bathroom breaks.
1. So I am paying $275 for this, I suspect largely for location and food. I get that many lawyers want things smancy, but as someone on a pretty tight budget, I would trade the Renaissance with the 6 kinds of starbucks coffee, the lunch buffet (2 salads, lobster pasta, chicken marengo, seasonal-ish veggies, and 9 kinds of dessert), for the airport holiday in and some panera sandwhich boxes. I'm just saying.
10. To all the older lawyers who signed in, left, came back, signed in again for the afternoon and left again: I appreciate that you have learned to play the system. That being said, this doesn't really help our ethical image as a Bar Association after that whole 'Head of OBA Ethics Committee Arrested for Sex Assault' thing. Or the Diddling Judge. I'm just saying.
9. Its a bad sign when the hotel staff feels the need to leave complimentary pillows in the back by the door.
8. For what we are paying, the conference room should have outlets for laptops. Because seriously, its almost 2009, kids. A lot of us have them. And would like to have been able to use them.
7. Also, the hotel wanting to charge $12.95 per DAY for wireless access is bull. I paid $9.95 for a three MONTH subscription at the Cincinnatti airport. Not all of us have a crack berry.
6. Having speakers who spend 10 of their 50 minutes whining about being in the afternoon when no one will pay attention due to digestive torpor and quoting journal studies on that subject doesn't make me want to play closer attention.
5. Since more of us are just going to toss the manuals anyways, why not put them on CDs and create a sign up option where you can choose a paper copy. The CD would be WAY cheaper.
4. If you are going to introduce the speakers, introduce them all. Not every third one. It made the transitions messy.
3. CLE would probably make a good drinking game. I may develop that tomorrow.
2. I would gladly be there until 3:45 in exchange with more frequent bathroom breaks.
1. So I am paying $275 for this, I suspect largely for location and food. I get that many lawyers want things smancy, but as someone on a pretty tight budget, I would trade the Renaissance with the 6 kinds of starbucks coffee, the lunch buffet (2 salads, lobster pasta, chicken marengo, seasonal-ish veggies, and 9 kinds of dessert), for the airport holiday in and some panera sandwhich boxes. I'm just saying.
