Hey! I got my first piece of mail with "Esq." on it!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

It's only a brochure advertising Pitt Panther shirts from my school bookstore, but I'm saving it nonetheless! (I'm not really an "Esq." until I'm a licensed attorney, but oh well.)

[khashka]

1. Cool!

I rememember the first piece of mail I got with "Rev." on it.

Fun to feel a little smug, eh?

:)

Khash.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. It's very weird - I keep thinking, "ME?????"

That can't be right!

[khashka]

4. It can be a little weird

but feel a little smugness all the same - it's good for the soul.

But do we now have to call you DeposeTheBoyKing, Esq.?

Khash.
(anyone want's to call me Reverend Khash or Father Khash, I'm cool with it)

[tjwmason]

14. Tut tut tut tut tut.

I think that you'll find that Reverend Khash is incorrect (though very common). "Reverend" is not a title, but rather an adjective applied to a person. Thus it would actually be The Reverend Mr. Khash. :P

[khashka]

16. Oh that silly British aristocracy thing.

In the US,Reverend is a title. A religious title, which by some strange circumstance I actually legally have.

But if you call me The Most Reverend Mr. Khash, I'll be putty in your hands (not that I'm not already).


Khash.

[Hugin]

3. Yay! I'm an "Occupant"!

Whoo-hoo!

[WeRQ4U]

5. Always wondered, can attorneys keep the title "Dr." if not licensed?

I think we should be able to. Although I AM licensed, so it's moot for me. But even so.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. You can call yourself "JD," that's for sure

You earned that degree!

[WeRQ4U]

8. That's obscure and anticlimactic though. I want to be DOCTOR.

Hell, if Doctor Laura can be a doctor and she doesn't even have an advanced degree of any kind, I can be a doctor if I've got a Juris Doctorate. Case closed. Pun intended.

[no name no slogan]

24. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson only had an honorary doctorate

And he was still called Dr.

The easiest way would be to legally change your name to Doctor. That way, everybody would HAVE to call you doctor, even if you lose your JD, somehow.

[LisaM]

7. WHY do they use "Esquire" for attorneys? It makes no sense

I thought the title was meant to refer to a landed property owner. I know that they use it for laywers, but I certainly don't understand why.

BTW, congratulations to you anyway. I'm not knocking your achievements.

[WeRQ4U]

9. Esquire is an old English term for nobility

Like a step below Knighthood. It's modern usage is for "counselor" or "attorney".

I'm sure it's on Wiki though if you want to look it up.

I think it's dumb, regardless of it's origins. I want to be Doctor.

[LisaM]

15. I know what its modern (American) usage is....

I just wanted to know why. Just another form of credentialism? I'm not denying that people use it! I work with lawyers. Some of them simply insist on it.

[WeRQ4U]

18. Really? They INSISTon you using it?

That seems so self-important. I think you're right about the credentialism. I can't think of any other reason why. We definitely aren't a step below knighthood as a whole. lol

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

19. Oh God, no!

Until I pass the bar, of course, I can't function as a "real" attorney yet. But I was a certified legal intern in my last year of law school and represented clients in protection from abuse actions, and I can tell you, the conduct of many of the opposing attorneys left MUCH to be desired! I took great comfort in the knowledge that if these idiots could do it, I certainly could!

[WeRQ4U]

21. I feel the same way.

I'm practically in the same boat that you are. I graduated in 2004 from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, OR. I am in the second year of a two year judicial clerkship. It ends sometime in August of next year. I see attorneys every day that restore the faith in my ability to do this just. A lot of them are absolutely HORRID.

[LisaM]

23. Yes, it's protocol on our letters, etc.

and to other lawyers.

[tjwmason]

13. In England it now it is used with great liberality

It's use is still sort of "man with property" but it is frequently used as an alternative to Mr.

Certainly not a title just for lawyers.

[Left_Winger]

10. I felt the same way when I was called "Dr." for the first time

Then it was really weird when my professor called me by that title.

[TimeChaser]

11. A Pitt grad?

Whoo! My father graduated from Pitt law school many years ago. And my mother got her master's of social work at Pitt as well. :hi:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. Cool! DUer RPM is also a Pitt Law Class of 2005 grad!

[ET Awful]

17. Actually that was a Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure advertisement :)

Bill S. Preston, Esq. was just a movie quote :evilgrin:

[Shell Beau]

20. That is cool! Congrats!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

22. Thanks!