Wednesday, September 1, 2004
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THE LEGAL COMMUNITY: (Pro Bono Publico) Volunteers Sought—If You Can’t Participate, Please Let Everyone Know
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(The following email message was circulated to members of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Corporate Counsel Section in an effort to promote Adoption Day, which will be held Nov. 20 at the Children’s Court in Monterey Park. Despite the apparently clear “NOTE” appended to the initial message, the replies of numerous recipients wound up in the email inboxes of all the list members. Reactions, reproduced below, ranged from bemusement to frustration.)
Dear LACBA Corporate Counsel Section Members:
Please join us in a very worthwhile cause—bringing families together. Help process the paperwork for an adoption. Then appear with the family in court to obtain the adoption order. There will be a two-hour training session for this easy but highly rewarding hands-on role.
No litigation experience is necessary.
Adoption Day: November 20, 2004, at Children’s Court in Monterey Park
Filing Deadline: October 22, 2004—all papers must be filed withCourt.
Training Session: September 21, 2004—provided by Karen Ullman, Attorney at Public Counsel, at Public Counsel’s office located at 601 South Ardmore Avenue (near 6th and Normandie, just west of downtown).
Please sign up with our Section Administrator, Gail Coleman, via email at gcoleman@lacba.org. If you have any questions, please contact me at 310-395-3039 or via email at michael@micowan.com.
There is a limit of 15 attorneys for this project, so please sign up as soon as possible.
Thanks! Michael Cowan.
Pro Bono Chair, Los Angeles County Bar Association Corporate Counsel Section.
NOTE: REPLY goes ONLY to the sender, REPLY TO ALL goes to all list members.
I wish I could, but the date doesn’t work. This was a really great experience when the Section participated two years ago.
I think it’s a great cause. I would love to participate but I work in-house so my schedule won’t allow me.
PLEASE TAKE MY NAME OFF THIS LIST. THANK YOU.
Likewise. Please remove me.
...It would be great if you would take me off this email list—appreciate it very much (and not sure how I was put on it recently?)
Likewise.
Take mine off also, and others, please stop replying to all when you want to be taken off the list, you are just making it worse for all of us by clogging our emails with your replies.
Please everyone, stop with the emails now If you don’t want to do the good deed, don’t. If you want to be taken off the list, follow instructions. If you don’t want to be the only one on the list, figure it out.
I guess that I don’t want to be the only person left on the list, so please take me off, too. Thanks.
Actually, you’d be left on the list with me...but if you’re leaving, then I guess I should too. Plus, I’m in Sacramento, and I don’t want to make the Sac Bar Association jealous.
If you geniuses would follow the unsubscribe instructions below and stop hitting “reply all” with your removal requests, this chain will stop.
Stop the traffic by taking me off your list—your email set up has created a very abusive distraction!
Hi.
I think he made a mistake by sending the email “from” the email address which sends it to everyone on the list. A mistake yes, but not the basis for all of these emails.
I think we all wanted to be on the list initially, which is why we got it as members of the corporate law committee.
If you want to unsubscribe from the list there is a way to do that at “lacba.org”
Let’s quit roasting and get back to work, people!
:-)
If you don’t know how to REPLY to your email, get someone with the smarts to do so. You are blocking MY home computer and bugging me, not a member of your elite corporate law group. So, STOP IT KNOW.
Figure out what the consequences are BEFORE you hit the send button.
Don’t know why I’m being copied on all these e-mails. ...
Perhaps we are elite because we know that your comment “stop it know” should be “stop it now.”
Sorry I can’t participate, but please leave me on list, as it is worth it to hear from all the cranky people who can’t cope with a little inadvertent spam.
Finally, a voice of reason! The rest of you should be embarrassed that your over-reactive responses are being viewed by the rest of us. You all sound crazy!
This had been great! Besides the hilarity of it all ( I can always use a good laugh), as a result of the “list,” I have also set up 1 lunch, 1 breakfast, chatted with several friends I have not spoken to in years, and learned to appreciate my wife much more. Thanks guys!
Yeah, so where is lunch and who is buying???
I agree with everyone. Those of you who are annoyed have my sympathy. I am also laughing with those of you who find this e-mail chain entertaining. Incidentally, I am now in private practice and would love to hear from each and everyone of you...especially if you are looking for outside counsel. Please call...
Since I no longer practice law, the email chain has been an amusing distraction, one that I can afford, as my time is no longer being measured in 7-minute increments. I am now a mortgage broker, if anyone is looking to purchase or refinance, I would love to be able to help a fellow attorney.
I just saved a bundle on my car insurance!
Seriously, I find it ironic that the spam created by this list is being generated by the very people that object to the list in the first place.
It is easy to be reactionary.
TAKE ME OFF THIS E-MAIL LIST!
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