Once again, Lowering the Bar takes the cake when it comes to finding, or making, fun in the legal world Sure, you could spend years actually developing a reputation for trustworthiness and plain-spoken honesty, or you could just Photoshop your head onto the body of somebody who’s already done that. This lawyer in the Philadelphia […]
Lincoln mashup?
July 26, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Filed Under: funny Tagged With: Lawyers and Law Firms, lowering the bar, Philadelphia, tacky
When English Fails to Describe…a Photocopy Machine
March 23, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Too much fun is to be had in depositions. The below transcript was reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (via Lowering the Bar, via the WSJ Law Blog). The dispute, before the Ohio Supreme Court, is over the costs for photocopying in the Cuyahoga County Clerk’s office. Currently, they are $28 for the first two pages and […]
Filed Under: funny Tagged With: Cuyahoga County Ohio, lowering the bar, Ohio Supreme Court, Photocopier, postaday2011, The Plain Dealer (newspaper), Xerox
When reason fails, let ridicule carry the day…?
January 10, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Last week, I shared a post about a bipartisan effort in Utah to increase civility, especially in political discourse, but also in every aspect of every day life. It’s the Utah Civility and Community 2011 campaign. Do we always need to be civil, though? Is there a time and place for rudeness? Today, a contact […]
Filed Under: Legal Profession Tagged With: Civility, Finger (gesture), lowering the bar, postaday2011, Utah Civility and Community 2011
“Judge Who Lost Pants Forced to Rely on Briefs”
May 13, 2010 by Daniel Burton
I can’t help it. The headline is too funny to avoid stealing it from “Lowering the Bar.” I’ll give them the credit, though, and the whole story: When we last saw Roy, in July 2009, he was losing his wrongful-termination case against the District of Columbia, his former boss, and others, a case he filed […]
Filed Under: funny Tagged With: appeal, briefs, Circuit court, district court, District of Columbia, dry cleaners, lowering the bar, pants, Roy Pearson, wrongful-termination
No one wants to read law reviews…
April 8, 2010 by Daniel Burton
The great thing about the legal blogs out there is that they make the law into something that law reviews and court rulings cannot – something interesting to read. Here are a few of the blogs that I like to read from time to time, in no particular order: Popehat: a random assortment of items, often about […]
Filed Under: Legal Profession Tagged With: above the law, blogs, law blogs, lowering the bar, Popehat, simple justice
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