Legal Assistants

LG's law practice is a thing of the past. I think sometimes he misses it a little bit. Although he would never admit it. For any of you starting your own practice my husband will gladly give you some advice. Have a partner. The other thing he will tell you was told to him by a smart law professor.

"Get a good assistant and keep her."

The first year of LG's law practice I was the assistant. I guess I wasn't good enough because he didn't keep me. We often joke that I think I quit and he thinks he fired me. Either way it doesn't matter. What really happened is I had a baby and it was too hard for me to take care of the baby, the other girls, LG, and his practice. I was forced to let LG take a portion of his take home pay and divvy it out to a real assistant.

I can't remember the details, but before I knew it, LG had hired two assistants. 

You see, he tries to be a humble guy and will gladly admit to needing all the help he can get.

The other lawyers that got to know is assistants always teased LG that he knew how to do things right. It was more than a little eery that they would all make the same joke:

"LG, you must be one hellofaguy. You have a blonde assistant on T and TH and a brunette on M,W,F."

Yuck.

I really had to work on my confidence for years, and a wife really doesn't need jokes like that. For a long time LG and I had an understanding that the only assistant he was going to have was a gay man.

But then came Sheena and Stephanie. I trusted these girls with my life and my husband. And they took really good care of him. I think if LG were to enhance his new job in any way, he would request a personal secretary to do all the things he doesn't like doing. These girls were a godsend. They relieved my man's stress level by about 40%.

Funny, by the pictures you would think that Sheena was the brunette and Stephanie was the blonde, but when they worked for LG, they both had opposing hair colors to these photos.

Sheena on her wedding day.
I stole this photo from her facebook.

Stephanie on her graduation day.
She e-mailed me this photo.
And gave me permission to use it on my blog.

When Stephanie was working for LG, her mom showed me a pair of shoes that Stephanie had requested for her birthday. Upon seeing them, I begged her not to wear them to work. No explanation needed. She honored my request. Or didn't she? I can't remember. It really didn't matter. I was just joking with her.

You can imagine my entertained laugh a few weeks back when opening an e-mail with this photo from Stephanie. Stephanie had graduated from paralegal school. She said she had to wear her heels to make a statement.

I replied with, 

My thought was what point were you trying to make...that all legal assistants have to be hot? Because if that's the case, my sex life should have been a lot better than it was during that year that I worked for LG.

Of course I wasn't serious.