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Looks like the barely-missed layoffs will actually start coming to life in January. Which is bad news bears for me. 


The plan to save jobs was to lobby the legislature hard to write law allowing the Supreme Court to impose an additional $75 fee on lawyers' yearly registration fees and to create a special Public Defense Account where that money would go so it could be used for public defense only. The legislature passed the law. However, the Supreme Court has not ruled on it. And so, the more time that passes without the fees being imposed, the more of a budget problem we have. Which means people will start getting laid off. Which means that I will get laid off. Because I am still the low-man on the totem pole. 


There's been talk about our district losing 5 attorneys. We've got 18 full time attorneys now. That would put us down to 13. Thirteen full time public defenders to cover 11 counties. 


Well, I'm sure that will work out perfectly. 


In the meantime, I'll be back to applying for jobs, watching daytime TV, and generally being depressed. More so than I was before, because now Hat's laid off too and we'll shortly be homeless after I stop being employed. 


Awesome.