lawyer jokes
Harris County Jail dot com
The Houston Chronicle’s Web site offers future inmates a look at Harris lockup (archive) noted a new website, harriscojail.com.
The site, which is not affiliated with Harris County or the Jail in any way, offers information and advice from those having had the pleasure of past experience in Harris County lock up. The site is part […]
Summer Reading List for Students Excited they are about to start Law School
Inspired by the achingly literate McSweeney’s Internet Tendency which brings us a series of clever user-contributed lists, including Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession, including…
Cutting and Pasting Legal Lingo
Explaining Business Associations to the People Who Are Running Them
4 A.M. Word Processing and the Law
Ethics of Conspicuous Consumption
Forwarding E-mails: […]
The Brothers Larry - Lawyers (hilarious lawyer ad)
Video: The Brothers Larry - Lawyers
Sadly, it’s getting harder to know if this is a parody (it is) with some of the other lawyer ads out there.
Involuntary Public Intoxication, Good Facts Make Funny Law
Kevin Underhill’s Lowering the Bar brought this gem of a case in Court of Appeal Upholds Right to Private Drunkenness.
Like my former favorite involuntary intoxication case, Martin v. State, 31 Ala.App. 334, 17 So.2d 427 (1944), the case of In re R.K. involves officers of the law in a podunk town that can’t help but […]
Cardozo Law Revue 2007 Beavis and Butt-for
Video: Cardozo Law Revue 2007 Beavis and Butt-for, an ode to Palsgraf.
The Chewbacca Defense
Over the break it was revealed that one of my section-mates has survived a year and a half of law school without encountering the Chewbacca Defense. What are we learning in law school if not the fundamental building blocks of legal logic and rhetoric?
The Chewbacca Defense originated in a 1998 South Park episode Chef Aid […]
Slate: Justice Scalia Joins 24
Script by Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick inspired by a comment made by the Justice this summer.
The Three Kick Rule
I don’t know why this one amuses me so much - girlfriend was unimpressed when I told it to her the other day - but for some reason this is one of my favorite lawyer jokes.
A big-city Yankee lawyer went duck hunting in East Texas. He shot a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s […]
The Real Reason for Removing the Ten Commandments from Courthouses
From my grandmother:
You cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery”, and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
With family like that who needs Frank Lasee? ;-)
How to Win Friends and Influence People in On Campus Interviews (OCI)
Each fall law school campuses blossom with a thousand hopeful dreams of spending the rest of their lives in a little cubicle high up on the skyline. This instructional video will help future lawyers “get their interview on.”