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My one act of clear malpractice. I had a very wealthy client that I worked with for several years, just defending her in litigation and trying to help her avoid the results of her terrible taste in men. I had a judgment against a fellow for fraud and a few other torts, and rather predictably he filed a liquidating bankruptcy petition to try to avoid paying any part of the judgment. I had warned the client of this possibility because, really he had very little anyway and I thought even suing him was a waste of money. But she believed otherwise, so we got a judgment.He filed his bankruptcy petition in a city a plane flight away, but we still were doing what we could and had objected to the discharge of the judgment debt because it sounded in fraud. A pretrial hearing was scheduled in the federal bankruptcy court where he filed.We had an established procedure for my court appearances since I had so many. My general clerk pulled the files for each the evening before a hearing date, made sure everything was current in the file, and put a sheet on the front showing critical information like the name of the client and position in the suit, the style of the lawsuit, the presiding judge if one was known, the opposing counsel and contact information, and the date, time and location of the hearing or trial. The day’s files were stacked in order of hearing time on the edge of my desk. The idea was that I could quickly review what I was doing and where, then sweep the files into my briefcase and be off to the courtrooms.This particular case, however, was placed on the same date as other matters in my home town, and I didn’t catch the difference in towns until that morning. I hadn’t made any arrangements to have either the local cases covered, or to get someone to cover the long distance matter for me. (It was just a status hearing, so someone local could easily have taken it, but I needed to make arrangements beforehand). Anyway, I called the presiding judge’s office - nothing - the judge was properly on the bench already. I called my opposing counsel - nothing again - he was properly in court on other things. In the face of my apparent non-attendance and not being aware of my messages, the judge dismissed my client’s suit for non-appearance. This had never happened to me before, but I had something of a guide in what to do next. A particularly fine lawyer in my town, also a litigator, but specializing in PI and corporate fraud cases, had missed a filing date and like mine, refiling was barred without judicial permission. He had promptly contacted the client in a letter, giving them his insurance information, including the name and contact information for his insurance agent.I called my client, told her what had happened, described what I planned to do about it to get the case reinstated, that if I was unsuccessful in that, the suit would be time-barred, and told her she would not be billed for anything beyond the day before the hearing, with billing resuming only if I was able to get the lawsuit reinstated. I asked her to consent to my attempting reinstatement in her name, but any expenses (such as my opposing counsel’s appearance fees) would be mine to pay. Then I confirmed that by letter, together with her permission in allowing me to attempt reinstatement, and as my exemplar had, I told her it was malpractice per se, providing the name and contact information for my exemplar since he did legal malpractice cases, advising that I would not contest the facts of having missed the hearing because of not noticing the location, and providing her with my insurance information. Needless to say, I felt terrible about having damaged the client through my mistake. We had systems to protect against similar mistakes, but not for this specifically since the file had not been reviewed in advance to catch the location and need for local counsel.When I was able to speak with my opposing counsel, he agreed to the reinstatement, assuring me that his client had nothing to lose since he couldn’t pay any part of the judgment anyway. I advised him that I would pay his attorney’s fees for his attendance at the hearing, but he refused any reimbursement. Then I send him an agreed motion to reinstate for his signature, including my offer to pay his fees. It was filed and the judge signed the order putting us back on the docket. As expected, the guy had nothing and my client eventually agreed to settle for his agreement that the debt was nondischargeable, but would never be collected. And, to my surprise, the client stayed with me for some years, saying only that I’d been honest with her and she trusted me.I was incredibly lucky in that, except for some scary time on the phone with everyone else, neither myself nor my client suffered any adverse consequences. Needless to say, we revised our procedures to specifically flag out of town cases for attention at least three days before any hearing or trial. It never happened again, but for me it certainly was a lesson in humility, coupled with the incredible kindness of everyone else involved. And an example to me of recognizing that even the best system is subject to human fragility and to not be harsh if I was ever on the other side of an honest slipup.

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This is not a good comparison. Phrenology looked at external conditions with the hope of making judgments about what was inside, in short. That is like judging the book by its cover, although some clever minds can get one to, at least, open a book due to the cover sheet.So, here we have the interior and boundary dichotomy coming to fore. Yet, if one looks closely, lots of modern progress is precisely due to our ignoring what is inside and looking merely at boundary conditions. Why? It is easy to hypothesize, in these cases, that the inside is an illusion.So, jumping to the huge collective of Carl, namely the unconscious. The way that he phrased the thing seems to suggest an accumulation, thereby resulting in a cover. In one sense, it would not be unlike the emergent-type explanations about consciousness. It is just that there is always a part that cannot be drawn out to the light (we have lots of cases where no matter how we try the sun don’t shine). A slight alteration, though, will overcome this. That is, the CC is persistent, despite who might be tapping into the thing. That comes under discussions about concepts like psychether. People do not make the CC.But, wait. memes have been left behind? They are new, yet. They were sort of off-handedly put out by Richard. There have been a lot of different views developed in this regard. So, we cannot shut any coffin in this case.One might argue that memes do deal with archetypes. However, it’s a two-way affair. How would that work? Again, my put would be psychether (or some analog, thereof).Essentially, we have this. CC was there prior to Carl’s labeling of the thing. People have wrestled with this for eons. We now have the ability to establish the fact, albeit many do not want us to venture down this path. That is too bad, as these things are amenable to the comprehension of the non-elite. Ah, that’s scary to many.Archetypes relate to energy, as does the CC. Yet, with synchronicity, we have phenomenal events with which to study things. Memes may actually come into play here, to boot. For that, I hope that Richard is around to see the link. Perhaps, it may take too long.So, actually, the only funeral would be for phrenology. Yet, do not be too quick. How is the brain scanned now? From the outside, to a large extent. So, those who ventured down the wrong path did not do so by ignorance. Not knowing what is not known is not ignorance. No, it ought to be the source of the humility that seems to be lacking in our rush toward conquering that which we cannot even, in total, grasp.Mathematics and computation as savior? Look at Wigner, et al. Not.