Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
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“When someone dies you’re only supposed to say something good. Kim Jong-Il just died. Good.” (with apologies to Bette Davis; this seems on the way to becoming one of my most popular Twitter posts ever, even getting a mention in the Hollywood Reporter)
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A humorous take on the news that supermarkets in the United Kingdom may soon be freed to enter the legal services market [NewsThump]:
…there are fears that the income of Britain’s lawyers could be slightly affected.
“Our members are already feeling the pinch, and in some cases we’ve had to not quite bleed people dry”, claimed Claude Darkus of the Law Society….
Consumers have already formed several support groups for struggling lawyers, with drop-in centres where they can have a quick money shower and kick some puppies.
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A Kentucky judge’s colorfully worded order is grist for my latest post at Cato.
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A brief history of auto-litigation [John G. Browning, Southeast Texas Record]
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“There are thousands of door-related accidents each year. The Consumer Product Safety Commission should do its bit by requiring that a professionally trained doorman open and shut all doors for door-users. That would create millions of jobs …” [Iain Murray, CEI]
It’s a much-circulated story. But is it true?
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“Nanolaw with Daughter” is a short science fiction story by Paul Ford about birth, “speculative law firms” and bulk litigation [Ftrain via BoingBoing]
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A Monsters Inc. HR wall poster [Jon Hyman]
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It’s just satire, at The Onion, for now at least.
Saturday Night Live has this lawyer-ad parody (via Lowering the Bar). Note the disturbing prevalence of coupon settlements. More on the troubled production from The Onion.
“Any errors are the fault of no-one in particular; rather, society itself is to blame.” And: “All errors are the authors’ sole responsibility, but persons aggrieved by any such errors are encouraged to sue the companies which manufactured our computers.” [Kopel/Volokh]
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Hikaru Katayamma snapped a pic.
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Comedy.com rounds some up.
Now how do you think we might arrange for them to do that here? [Focus-IA]
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More fun from The Namby Pamby (language). More: Legal Blog Watch (”slip and fall complaint Mad Libs”).
Kevin Underhill, whose Lowering the Bar is a perennial on our blogroll, has published an annual tidbits roundup (PDF) in the yearly almanac of The Green Bag, itself a publication that should be checked out by anyone interested in humor and skillful writing about law and the legal profession.
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