Articles in the The Lighter Side Category
This Valentine’s Day, Avvo is doing its best to help non-lawyers find a nice lawyer to settle down with. This post offers ten tips for landing and keeping the lawyer of your dreams.
Not quite law-related, but hey — we all went to college, right? And this is a pretty nifty infographic.
Wait, I can make this law-related. Berkeley has an Arguing with Judge Judy course? Awesome. That reminds …
Our trusts & estates professor usually begins class by detailing a semi-current event from T&E. He recently brought this [defective] will to our attention:
Background: A Brooklyn couple were killed in their home, and then a …
While jogging around my college town the other day, I got to thinking about pedestrian traffic laws. It occurred to me that I have neither followed them well myself nor seen them followed particularly well …
Joshua already laid out the most badass attorneys of all time. But what about the just plain bad? Here’s a countdown of some of the most vile, evil, and corrupt lawyers ever to enter the …
6. Atticus Finch
“No real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or public perception of the legal profession than the hero of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.” 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1339. This …
For those of you who haven’t been exposed to the NYU Law Revue yet, this is a good ice-breaker. I could deal without the exceptionally long credit intro, but the rest of it is exceptionally …
We at Legal Geekery are so intent on giving our readers exactly what they’re looking for that we’ve decided to launch a new segment devoted to your questions. How does one get selected to be …
Apparently the hip new way to get free representation for your patent dispute is by spamming law students on internet dating websites.
Background: Around 2006 I created an OkCupid account to “meet ladies.” I’m no longer …
Demetri Martin is funny, check it out.
To preface, this is sort of a joke. I say sort of, because I think there are some people who are just made to go to law school, and this probably won’t and shouldn’t deter …
I stumbled across a cool blog called That’s What She Said that analyzes episodes of The Office and estimates their workplace discrimination liability.
Yesterday’s entry reads:
We’ve Come a Long Way (Except for Michael and Dwight)
Litigation Value: …
While I didn’t know about President-elect Obama’s promise to get his daughters a dog until his speech last night, there have been over 42,000 people involved in the important decision of what breed of dog …
I can’t take credit for the idea behind this post. My awesome civ pro / con law professor / research adviser devoted the end of a civ pro class to watching some of these crazy …
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It wasn’t my goal to mimic xkcd (though he is awesome) — I just can’t draw.
