August 11, 2026

A Modest Tort Reform

A Modest Tort Reform. One plaintiff’s lawyer (aka “ambulance chaser“) gives his take on Tort Reform (which doesn’t mean changing how you make confections…). A snippet: We go by all sorts of names: Trial attorney, victim’s rights lawyer, shyster, stupid, ambulance chaser and so on and so forth.  You’ve likely heard about our kind a […]

Meet a lawyer who practices Third Amendment law

Really? I doubt it. I’m about 89% sure that this is a joke…. A lawyer who practices Third Amendment law. That’s right. That’s the amendment about quartering soldiers in your home. T “Scotch” Reynolds: Third Amendment Lawyer | Big Legal Brain. BLB: Just what is the Third Amendment? Scotch: I can quote it, if you […]

“I had a dream last night…”

Thanks to XKCD.com for keeping it real.

Can one “rock out” to John Denver?

In a post that perhaps my siblings but not my father can appreciate (since they complained that I don’t have enough pictures here), a man was cited for rocking out to John Denver.  From Lowering the Bar: According to the report, Officer Ryan Williams pounded on the man’s door and, while doing so, “recognized the songs […]

Here’s hoping I don’t leave under these circumstances…

From: “Say What?! A Weblog of classic humor of U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer February 2001 – Did They Really Say That? From Judge David R. Gibson of Dallas (County Court at Law No. 1) this excerpt from am affidavit filed in connection with a special appearance in his court: 11. On Nov 2nd, 1992, […]