Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Lost the motion, but won the case!

Judge didn't let us join the county, because he thought it was the plaintiff's motion to make. But, the uber-liberal defenders of the indigent in the boiler room succeeded in staving off possession and a monetary judgment. Go us! Celebrating at Skybar!

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Success!

The team celebrates a successful trial, because we're awesome.

Trials scheduled!

Look we did get you into the courtroom! And more trials scheduled before the end of the summer. Looks like someone's practice certificate is more useful than Terrel's hanging in our office.

Live tweets from the courtroom...

One of our own is ready to serve justice. Two hearings and a trial today. Go Highlander!

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

I can haz cupcake!

Despite some people here not providing birthday cupcakes for everyone yesterday, we have cupcakes today. They're not homemade, but they're still awesome.

Friday, June 28, 2013

We have fresh bread...

Some Scot got up at 6am to make us fresh bread. Be jealous. Be very jealous.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

10am ice cream time

Ever setting the highest standard for treats, today the Boiler Room is enjoying a selection of home made ice cream. Visit quickly, grovel hard and we might even share.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Book of the Day


Today's book of the day has a video preview

For further mocking pleasure:

The CVLAS Interns have a lack of investigatory skills or blogging skills or both. They have started a new blog at http://roomwithoutaviewcvillecvlas.blogspot.com/ instead of finding the old blog as Alex instructed. Perhaps, no CVLAS blog existed before, but that would just be sad. We will forgive them, if they post reviews of all the restaurants they try this summer.

Also, the Bunker and Birdcage interns continue to disappoint with their lack of blogging. Should we leave them at the jail when we go on our upcoming field trip as punishment?

Field Trip

The Boiler Room spent much of the morning out the office. We set up a mobile advice center in a local public housing development before heading to City Hall where a number of tenant grievances were filled.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

In case you missed the subterfuge that made Bunker members sob uncontrollingly...


Keeping busy



Week two is well underway, with new cases arriving each day. A steady steam of client meetings and calls, interspersed with groundbreaking research keeps us busy. By nine o'clock this morning, we had already dispatched a crack legal team who will provide representation in a housing hearing. 

Through the corridors in the Dungeon Bunker there also appears to be work underway. Perhaps we’ll hear more about it once they figure out this blogging thing.

Monday, June 03, 2013

Visits from friends



We very much enjoyed the company of the Bunker Interns who joined us for a few hours last week after they were evicted from their office to accommodate some meetings. Evictions from the Bunker appear to be a recurring annual theme; should you need representation, we do have practice expertise in this area of law.

Understandably, the exposure to natural light probably came as a shock, but please know you are welcome to visit us at any time. You can enjoy home baking while also replenishing your diminished levels of vitamin D.

Yours,

The Boiler Room.

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Boiler Room Pig has been Gentrified

Here he is in all his dapper glory. (Brought to you by an early morning trip to the craft store and valium). A pig this fine should have a name. Taking suggestions through the end of the week. Also, this means that the Bunker Room and Birdcage Interns really need to bring it, if they are going to compete with us Boiler Room Interns this summer.

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Field Trip

The Boiler Room sent out an expeditionary task force to Palmyra, VA this afternoon.

Some locals mistook us as hostile and one unfortunate attorney was placed in the stocks.



Quickly we took over the local seat of justice and secured her freedom.

 

 Having established we were peaceful, the friendly citizens insisted we stock up on fresh fruit and vegetables to sustain us on the journey home.
 
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Press release!

Today all of the important news stations in Charlottesville, and possibly the world, came to the LAJC to attend a press release put on by one of our fearless lawyers.  The press release focused on a class action suit that our housing interns helped put together to file.  Pay attention to the local news channels tonight and you may just get to see the inside of the LAJC annex, as well as maybe a shot or two of El Panadero filming on a iPhone with a bright purple case.  Really, the only point of this post is to assure everyone that the purple case does not actually belong to El Panadero.  Also to start the trend of El Panadero referring to himself in the third person, as El Panadero is currently doing. 


One of our lawyers filing the case...you may not be able to
feel it, but you could cut the anticipation with a knife
Anyways, congrats to the housing interns and lawyers who worked hard to file this case and put on this great press release! 

(N.B. The housing interns are all the other authors on this blog)

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

5 Day Pay or Quit?

Hey BunkBeds:

Heard you got evicted from your room this morning and were kicked out for this badass class action/housing law meeting.  Heard it never even happened, too! What a tough break. But hey, if you need any free, NON-legal representation, we're here for you. We know tons about housing law and are apparently less expendable than some of the other interns...




Monday, June 04, 2012

At least we keep all our posts up

Friday, for reasons that are not very clear, the BunkBeds wrote an incredibly complimentary and truthful post, and then immediately redacted it.  Apparently there is some dissention within the ranks of that rank back room, and all we can say is: we support you anonymous poster!  Keep strong and true!  We recognize your sacrifice, and hope you aren't being punished too violently, we know how savage things in that room can get....

Fortunately, I was able to copy the post before it was taken down, and personally we at the Boiler Room think it would be a crime against humanity to allow it to go unread by the total 7 shared viewers that the two blogs have.  Therefore, for your reading pleasure, here is that incredibly nice post:

Since we really don't do that much work, especially when compared to the Boiler Room, I figured I'd sit down and write a short post. This is a pretty important post in my opinion, and I'd like to set a few things straight. I would like to apologize for any perceived slight or challenge to the Boiler Room's dominance. Really, in the LAJC blog rankings, there's no question as to which comes out on top. We're incredibly grateful to have the Boiler Room to look up to and to use as a shining example of not only what a Legal Aid blog is supposed to be, but what perfect interns look like as well. They really have it all put together. I mean, just look at that stellar group of individuals. Always impeccably dressed, they put the business into "business casual". The dulcet Scottish and Zimbabwean accents are perfect for putting clients at ease and turning roaring opponents into mewing kittens. The feedback that has already come in has their clients not believing that they aren't lawyers (even though the Boiler Room interns compete oh so professionally to see how many times they can make that disclaimer), and indeed, since they aren't allowed to give legal advice, most clients desperately seek their advice in other non-legal matters, including fashion tips, voting preferences, and really just general life-guidance. Really, they are less interns and more life coaches, for everyone who comes into contact with them. Their record speaks for itself: within the first day they had already closed a case, and we can only guess that they must now be in the hundreds. How many times have we watched them on their way to the kitchen and just reveled in awe at their magnificence? We can't even imagine what glorious child Baby Mama is going to bring into the world, being incubated in such an amazing room with those five amazing individuals. We hear "I Am Not a Lawyer" has actually finished memorizing the entire Virginia code, and the other intern has created fifteen new Lean Cuisine recipes in his spare time that actually taste good and can fill a normal person's stomach. Basically, what it boils down to (see what I did there?) is that we just wanted to tell the world how amazing it is to work just down the convoluted hall from such a spectacular group of people, a group that we feel proud to look up to as mentors, who we can only hope will share some of their comprehensive knowledge about the law, and really the world.

Thank you Boiler Room, we feel proud just saying we breathe the same air as you do.

(Please note we mean no disrespect to the Birdcage in this post, we realize you guys are better than us too.)