I fought the law (and the law won) - The Clash

I fought the law - the Clash

Alice's Restaurant

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

Johnny 99 by Bruce Springsteen

Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none
He came home too drunk from mixin'Tanqueray and wine
He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call'm Johnny 99

Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop
Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top
When an off duty cop snuck up on him from behind
Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99

Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown
He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down
Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime
Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99

A fistfight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away
His mama stood up and shouted "Judge don't take my boy this way"
Well son you got a statement you'd like to make
Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away

Now judge judge I had debts no honest man could pay
The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' my house away
Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man
But it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand

Well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead
And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head
Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time
And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line

"Lawyers, Guns, and Money" by Warren Zevon

Given the regular ATL feature "The Eyes of the Law," wouldn't this post/topic be better titled "The Ears of the Law"?

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan

Law (Earthlings on Fire) - David Bowie
And definitely Alice's Restaurant

Lawyers, Guns, and Money by Warren Zevon.

"I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S5puAN1PGQw&feature=related

She was there through my incarceration
I wanna show the nation my appreciation

-Shaggy

workin' on the highway by Springsteen

Friday nights pay night guys fresh out of work
Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt
Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt
Some going down to stovell wearing trouble on their shirts

I work for the county out on 95
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
Someday mister Im gonna lead a better life than this

Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway

I met her at a dance down at the union hall
She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall
Sometimes wed go walking down the union tracks
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back

Working on the highway...

I saved up my money and I put it all away
I went to see her daddy but we didnt have much to say
Son cant you see that shes just a little girl
She dont know nothing about this cruel cruel world

We lit out down to florida we got along all right
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
Me and the warden go swinging on the charlotte county road gang

Working on the highway...

Bar and Grill Singers - "Appointed Forever"

...And Justice For All - Metallica

Murder Was the Case -- Snoop

Easy. "I'm Billing Time" by the Bar and Grill Singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkuZ5oI9uY

I Shot the Sheriff

Bob Marley

"Stupid Marriage" By The Specials, and its predecessor "Judge Dread (400 Years)" by Prince Buster

99 Problems - Jay-Z

"We're All Winners" as arranged by Nixon Peabody

"We're All Winners" as arranged by Nixon Peabody

"Legalize It" -- Peter Tosh

Pressure Iz Tight - Black Moon

"DAs all over the case, judge in my face
feelin the pressure all over the place....
I'ma open my mind and beat this Rockefeller law so I can flee the states and go on tour"

exam time anthem

Bad Boys

Inner Circle

a.k.a the theme from cops

10:13 wins

"even the lawyer too"

Sexx Laws - Beck

Testify -- Common

Weird Al - "I'll Sue Ya"

Previously posted on ATL.

http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/08/weird_al_song_becomes_tort_ref.php

This one's worth it, if only for the final dance bit, which is truthfully pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL8atM-Cm8E&feature=related

"you some type of lawyer or somethin"
"I ain't passed the bar, but I know a little bit"
"enough so you won't illegally search my S***"
"well, we'll see how smart you are when the canine comes"
"I got 99 problems but a B**** ain't one"
- Jay Z

Also a vote for Snoop - Murder is the Case

Steve Miller - "Take the Money and Run"

Morrissey - Sorrow Will Come In the End

Legalized theft
Leaves me bereft
I get it straight in the neck
(Somehow expecting no less)
A court of justice
With no use for Truth
Lawyer ...liar
Lawyer ...liar
You pleaded and squealed
And you think you've won
But Sorrow will come
To you in the end
And as sure as my words are pure
I praise the day that brings you pain
Q.C.'s obsessed with sleaze
Frantic for Fame
They're all on the game
They just use a different name
You lied
And you were believed
By a J.P. senile and vile
You pleaded and squealed
And you think you've won
But Sorrow will come
To you in the end
And as sure as my words are pure
I praise the day that brings you pain
So don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
A man who slits throats
Has time on his hands
And I'm gonna get you
So don't close your eyes
Don't ever close your eyes
You think you've won

Jay-Z 99 problems -

The year's '94 and my trunk is raw
In my rear view mirror is the mother fuckin' law
I got two choices y'all pull over the car or (hmmm)
Bounce on the double put the pedal to the floor
Now I ain't tryin' to see no highway chase with Jay.
Plus i got a few dollars i can fight the case
So I...pull over to the side of the road
I heard "Son do you know why I'm stoppin' you for?"
Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hats real low?
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I gas em up?
"Well you was doin fifty-five in a fifty-fo' "
"Liscense and registration and step out of the car"
"Are you carryin' a weapon on you I know a lot of you are"
I ain't steppin out of shit all my paper's legit
"Well, do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked so are the trunk in the back
And I know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that
"Aren't you sharp as a tack, you some type of lawyer or something'?"
"Or somebody important or somethin'?"
Nah, I ain't pass the bar but i know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit
"We'll see how smart you are when the K9 come"
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me

Here's an entire playlist:

http://ckamediation.com/wordpress/?p=176

It's more ADR-oriented, but still "legal"

Here's an entire playlist:

http://ckamediation.com/wordpress/?p=176

It's more ADR-oriented, but still "legal"

We get it, three votes for 99 problems. Mention something else...

"I am the Law" by the Human League

"I am the Law" by the Human League

Chamillionaire - "Ridin' Dirty"

Torts - The Starlight Mints
Break the Law - Ghost Club
Oswald Defence Lawyer - The Fall
Tried by 12 -East Flatbush Project
The Whole of the Law - The 1900s

A decidedly pre-Lawrence "Shoplifters of the World," by Morrissey.

"Mr. Bad Example" - Warren Zevon

I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I'll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy

Of course I went to law school and took a law degree
And counseled all my clients to plead insanity
Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald
Where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called

"Break da Law" - Three 6 Mafia
"Fuck tha Police" - NWA

The Clash's "I Fought the Law" is a cover. It might be the best version of the song, but they didn't write it.

"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash

"I Reary Ruv the Raw" by David Liu.

"A Week In a County Jail" by Tom T. Hall

Honorable Mention: "Lawyers, Guns & Money" - Zevon

Illegal Search - LL Cool J
Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor
The Night the Lights Went out in Gergia - Vicki
Gotta Get a Message To You - Bee Gees

Garth Brooks - American Honky-Tonk Bar Association

"Cop Killa" by Ice T
"Sunset on 32nd" by Strike Anywhere
"Unions and the Law" by the Street Dogs

"Truckin," Grateful Dead

Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window.
Got a tip they're gonna kick the door in again
I'd like to get some sleep before I travel,
But if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in.

"Truckin," Grateful Dead

Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window.
Got a tip they're gonna kick the door in again
I'd like to get some sleep before I travel,
But if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in.

10:31 is correct. The Clash's "I Fought the Law" was a cover. Bobby Fuller did the original. Credit where credit is due.

J

"Nah, I ain't pass the bar but i know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit"

Brilliant!

"Satan's Law" beautifully performed by GWAR.

Dylan

"Hurricane"

Date Rape - Sublime

"the next day she went to her drawer,
looked up her local attorney at law,
went to the phone and filed a police report
and then she took the guy's ass to court

well

the day he stood in front of the judge he screamed.
"she lies that little slut!"
the judge knew that he was full of shit
and he gave him 25 yrs
and now his heart is filled with tears."

Garth Brooks - Papa Loved Mama

Mama was a looker
Lord, how she shined
Papa was a good'n
But the jealous kind
Papa loved Mama
Mama loved men
Mama's in the graveyard
Papa's in the pen

Who Killed Davey Moore? - Dylan

Definitely "I Shot the Sheriff." Doing all this Bar/Bri studying, I can appreciate the use of deadly force in self-defense...

I always thought the lyrics to Date Rape were "and now his heart is filled with cheers," referring to the judge. But what do I know.

Lawyers in Love - Jackson Browne

Sublime is one of the worst bands in history.

Lawyers in Love by Jackson Browne

I can't keep up with what's been going on
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings in their designer jeans
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of lawyers in love

God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful
They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful
Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days
Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves
To the mating calls of lawyers in love

Last night I watched the news from Washington,
the capitol
The Russians escaped while we weren't watching
them, like Russians do
Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon
And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon
As vacation land for lawyers in love

"Love Me Good Like A Lawyer" -- T. Bone Pickens

Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash

"The judge said son - what is your alibi, if you were somewhere else then you won't have to die."
"I said not a word, though it meant my life, for I had been in the arms of my best friends wife"

DESTROY ALL LAWYERS by Mojo Nixon.

How about a song featuring R. Kelly, made all the better by the fact that he sings the hook of

"Trying to charge me, but I'm not guilty"

(Jay-Z + R. Kelly - Guilty Until Proven Innocent)

"Breakin' the Law" by Judas Priest
"Let's Break the Law" by Anti-Nowhere League

Also, just to mix it up a bit:
"Legalize Murder" by GG Allin
"Shove that Warrant up your A*s" by GG Allin
"Kill the Police" by GG Allin

The Hearsay Exceptions song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5LESZ7_Kc

"Baby's Out On Bail"
The Amazing Crowns

Cocaine Blues- Johnny Cash

"Law and Order" by Stiff Little Fingers
"Law and Order" Tom Robinson Band
"Law and Order" by The Exploited
"Law and Order" by Conflict

-11:03(2).

Whiskey for my Horses- Toby Keith and Willie Nelson

Law and Order theme song--whoever wrote it for Dick Wolf.
"Ba-BUM-da-da-da-da-DA
Ba-BUm-da-da-da-da-dah
[Flute solo}
Bow bow bow....."

Thank you, thank you.

Fight for your right .. beastie boys

Fight for your right .. beastie boys

i shot a man in Reno....just to watch him die

10:48=moron.

The Night That the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Reba McIntyre

The Georgia patrol was making their rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag 'em down
And a big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said
"Why'd you do it?"

The judge said guilty on a make-believe trial
Slapped the sherrif on the back with a smile
and said "Suppers' waiting at home and I've got to get to it"

That's the night the lights went out in Georgia
That's the night that they hung an innocent man
Don't trust your soul to no back woods Southern lawyer
'Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands

"You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" by Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty (about lawyer-on-lawyer action)

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys (you have to imagine that the whole song is about gay marriage)

"Fight for Your Right" by the Beastie Boys

Not strictly about the law, but still a good few lines from Ol' Hank:

"A distant uncle past away
and left me quite a batch
and I was living high until the fateful day
a lawyer proved I wasn't born, I was only hatched."
--Hank Williams, "I'll never get out of this world alive" (although he didn't write it)

Incidentally, the last song released before he died.

"Devil Went Down to Georgia"

It's a contract case. Fiddle of gold for your soul. Granted, there's no breach, but you see the offer and acceptance, consideration, performance, etc. Transactional attorneys should really go for this one.

Not a song, but a poem: The Love Song of the Delaware Court of Chancery

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2008/05/19/the-love-song-of-the-delaware-court-of-chancery/

Not a song, but a poem: The Love Song of the Delaware Court of Chancery

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2008/05/19/the-love-song-of-the-delaware-court-of-chancery/

Before He cheats--Carrie Underwood

About infidelity/(divorce too perhaps), destruction of property, engaging in sex under false pretenses.

The Lawyer and the Asshole - Jimmy Buffett

Liberty valance--he came to tame the West ('awbooks in his hand"

Liberty valance--he came to tame the West ('awbooks in his hand"

I second Cocaine Blues. There is a Johnny Cash box set with themed CDs--the one entitled "Murder" is loaded with songs relating to the criminal justice system. One song, Wesley Hardin (not sure offhand if that is the actual title), is even about an Old West gambler/gunfighter who briefly hangs out a shingle. Great stuff.

Sexx Laws is by far the best song mentioned so far. Also the most kinky

Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

While mona lisas and mad hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they cant and that is why
They know not if its dark outside or light

Honorable mention - Warren Zevon

Bob Dylan Hurricaine

11:25, you beat me to it! I was thinking about that as a contract song. I was always impressed the devil didn't breach, being the devil and all.

99 problems - "I ain't passin the bar but I know a lil bit" was ringing in my head for my entire bar review summer.

Goodbye Earl -- Dixie Chicks. Vigilante justice after Earl "walked right through that restraining order and put her in intensive care."

Trial Time by the Last Mr. Bigg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhrtCa4JyI

Highlights:

"I was only 17 had the neighborhood hooked,
have em stealin out there crib cuz my crack taste like ribs,"

"I said you better bring the Navy cause I'm fix'na bring tha Army
Get ya 12 white folks and take dat sh*t to trial b*^ch "

"I got 4 m---- f----n lawyers standin right here and we'll strike this b--ch up
And if that don't work out Ill make y'all b--ches kill me in this m---- f----n court room "

11:55, thanks. I guess I miss characterized the deal slightly, though. The deal was really: if you beat me, you get this fiddle of gold; but if you lose, you give me your soul. Regardless, it's still a contract.

Johnny to Gold Fiddles!
-11:25

12:00, my thoughts exactly! That is the BEST trial song.

Blondie -- X-Offender

You read me my rights and then you said "Let's go" and nothing more
I thought of my nights, and how they were
They were filled with

I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked
You just had to laugh

We sat in the night with my hands cuffed at my side
I look at your life and your style
I wanted nothing more
I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked
You just had to laugh

Walking the line, you were a marksman
Told me that law, like wine, is ageless
Public defender
You had to admit
You wanted the love of a sex offender

I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked
You just had to laugh

My vision in blue, I call you from inside my cell
And in the trial, you were there
With your badge and rubber boots

I think all the time how I'm going to perpetrate love with you
And when I get out, there's no doubt I'll be sex offensive to you

"Guilty of Love" by Whitesnake -- best criminal law song ever.

I'm guilty of love/
it's a crime of passion/
Guilty of love/
and there's no doubt about it, no doubt about it

Guilty of love/
Guilty of love/
Guilty/
In the first degree!

it has to be "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" by Warren Zevon by a wide margin. "Fuck the Police" by NWA would have to be second, by a significant margin. Academically-speaking, at least.

Deaf Dog and the Indictments is actually a very good band and the judges are also great guys. They played on March 15 at The Bitter End in the Village and have had multiple gigs at the Kennedy Center.

I fought the law (and I won) -Dead Kennedys

Not withstanding provisions of clauses 1,2,3 and 4
Extend contractual period, me and you for evermore

You're the Legal Man, you've got to prove that you're no liar
I'll render services that you may reasonably require

Belle and Sebastian

11:09 It's Beer for my Horses

Robert Earl Keen - The Road Goes on Forever

The Cubans grabbed the goodies and Sonny grabbed the Jack
He broke a bathroom window and climbed on out the back
Sherry drove the pickup through the alley on the side
Where a lawman tackled Sonny and was reading him his rights
She stepped into the alley with a single shot .410
The road goes on forever and the party never ends

Its Main Street after midnight just like it was before
21 months later at the local grocery store
Sherry buys a paper and a cold 6-pack of beer
The headlines read that Sonny is goin' to the chair
She pulls back onto Main Street in her new Mercedes Benz
The road goes on forever and the party never ends

wilco: passenger side

Come out and Play - The Offspring

Killing in the Name Of - Rage Against the Machine

Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear

Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles

Laywers Guns & Money, by Warren Zevon

Lawyers Guns & Money, by Warren Zevon

I shot the sheriff

Props to 12:39 and 12:42.

Born to Run

Born to Run

High plains drifter bestie boys

I'm seeing blue and red flashing deep in the night
I got my alibi straight and I pulled over to the right
Cop knocked on my window and said Boy where's the fire
you've got a mailbox on your bumper and a bald front tire
Outta the car longhair your goose is cooked
Read me my rights fingerprinted and booked
Makin' like a D.T. driving a Gran Fury
Wherever I hang my hat's my home and my past is kind of blurry
Every dog will have its day and mine will be in front of a jury
I'm the High Plains Drifter and I'm never in a hurry
Read me my rights as if I didn't know this
Threw me in the tank with the drunk called Otis
With his five o' clock shadow he smelled of 3-day old beer
My man turned to me and said why are you here?
I said I'm charming and dashing I'm rental car bashing
Phony paper passing at Nix Check Cashing
I went before the judge he sent me to the Brooklyn House of D.
He said you behave son or we'll throw away the key
Harry Houdini'd out the cuffs I kicked the screw in the knee
Took the bailiff's wallet and went straight to O.T.B.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and sung by Gene Pitney

One Million Lawyers, written and sung by Tom Paxton

"Best Friend" by R. Kelly

[R Kelly:]
What up charles, hey baby
[Keysha Coles:]
Hey Baby
[R Kelly:]
Girl i been missin you like crazy
[Keysha Coles:]
Miss you To
[R Kelly:]
These fools bout to make me loose my mind, i dont think i can do all this time
[Keysha Coles:]
Now jus calm down dont loose it Baby
[Polow Da Don:]
Keep yo head up man we got you
[R Kelly:]
How is lil junior? And my beautiful daughter?
[Keysha Coles:]
fine they jus miss they daddy
[R Kelly:]
Well did you get to talk to my lawyer?
[Keysha Coles:]
Night and day, Day and night i keep callin em'
[R Kelly:]
yeah? well day and night, night and day jus keep callin' em'
[Keysha Coles:]
O.K
[Polow Da Don:]
Yo what up my nigga you straight? any thing i can get you?
[R Kelly:]
Dis toilet paper be cuttin' my ass i need some roles of tissue... Charmin
Man what happened to those squares yo ass pro..misSed me..?
[Keysha Coles:]
Baby Charles lost his job, He's been struggle...in'

"Peanut Butter Jelly Time"

Accused of Love -- Tom Petty

Legal Matter by The Who

Great song for divorce lawyers.

Another vote for Bobby Fuller 4's "I Fought the Law," though the Clash's version is great, too.
And "I am the Law" by Anthrax.

Honorable mentions: "A Legal Matter" by the Who,
"One Cup of Coffee" by Bob Marley: "I brought the money, like the lawyers said to do. But that won't erase the heartbreak I caused you." That would be a great paragraph in a settlement agreement.

By the way, posting the entire lyrics to a song on a blogs comment is always pointless.

I'm surprised there that no one has yet cited Willie Nelson's "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys":

Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors or lawyers and such

This one is awesome too:

Waylon Jennings: "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit Has Done Got Out of Hand?"

I'm for law and order, the way that it should be.
This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me.
Someone called this outlaw, in some ol' magazine.
New York sent a posse down like I ain't never seen.

Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?
What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.
Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?
Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

We were wrapped up in our music, that's why we never saw,
The cars pull up, the boys get out and the room fill up with law.
They came pounding through the back door in the middle of the song.
They got me for possession of something that was gone, long gone.

Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?
What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.
Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?
Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand, out of hand?

Waylon/Willie fan here again, sorry for the double post.

But along those lines, I always thought "Luckenbach, Texas" was a good antidote to life in Biglaw:

So baby let's sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high socitey you cry all day
We've been so busy keepin' up with the Jones
Four car garage and we're still building on
Maby it's time we got back to the basics of love

Chorus:
Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain

Posted by guest
Friday, June 13, 2008 11:25 AM

"Devil Went Down to Georgia"

It's a contract case. Fiddle of gold for your soul. Granted, there's no breach, but you see the offer and acceptance, consideration, performance, etc. Transactional attorneys should really go for this one. "

if you're going to nerd out, you should at least get it right. the bargain wasn't a fiddle of gold for johnny's soul.

a transactional atty can probably correct this litigator, but it involved reciprocal conditional offers, each of which serves as consideration for the other. If Johnny wins, the devil owes him a fiddle of gold. If the devil wins, Johnny owes him his soul.

"California Sex Lawyer" by Fountains of Wayne

"California Sex Lawyer" by Fountains of Wayne

I'm currently a paralegal at a Vault 5 firm in NYC. The majority of lawyers are fine, but, there are a lot of DB's here also. I'm from a hardworking family, I did well in college, and pretty well on the LSAT. Here is my question: Given the fact that this is the "top of the heap" in the legal world-- should I still go to law school? All of my interests, besides the law itself, I have to express outside of work. I genuinely couldn't care less if half the people I work with, and who will eventually be my peers, never crossed my path again in life.
An ATL poster hit it on the head yesterday, for me at least. He said that most of the EgoManiacs pitch tents and harold the fact that they do extremely MENIAL work for big name clients, as though that validates their creds as an Atty. Aside from the cost of Law School, the prospect of spending between 5 and 25 years of my life behind a desk, churning fees for a behemoth that couldn't care less about me, aside from my billables, has me a little un-enthused. Also the employment/ partnership oppurtunities for minorities (Ha!), arrogance of you wanna be important IVY Leaguers, racism, classism, sexism, materialism, and generally empty existence endured by BigLaw (ers) add to my moroseness/ anguish. I feel like working in the industry has completely killed my dream... Good job ATL.
I love this site because most of us can speak freely, protected by the guise of anonymity. I'm applying for Fall '09 entrance, and I'd appreciate the feedback. Is there any way to be a successful Attorney without turning into the limpwristed turds that "practice" in this one time noble profession?

Note: Save the grammatical/ spelling jokes, loser. Just answer the questions I posed, and if I sound like an idiot, that's fine, you can call me on that. I just really hate how people feel like they accomplished something by pointing out a grammar error. Thanks.

2:00, thanks asshat. Actually I noted that myself--see 12:03.

-11:25 & 12:03.

Snoop Dogg, "Murder Was The Case".

"I'm wanted (wanted!!)/ dead or alive"
- Bon Jovi

Regulator
- Warren G -- more vigilante justice.

I Hung My Head - Johnny Cash

lol... asshat... classic

Murder on the Dancefloor

Less that Jake, Dukes of Hazzard

Just good ol' boys
Never meaning no harm
Yeah, well all they ever saw was the trouble with the law
Since the day they were born
Flat in the curves
Straight on the hills
Someday the mountain might get'em
But the law never will
Making their way,any way they now how
That's just a little bit more than the law will all

"Rotting on Remand" by Billy Bragg:

I stood before the judge that day
As he refused me bail
And I knew that I would spend my time
Awaiting trial in jail
I said there is no justice
As they led me out the door
And the judge said, "This isn't a court of justice son
This is a court of law."

They first sent me to Windsor
And then to Stoke on Trent
In a holding cell in Liverpool
Three days and nights I spent
My solicitor can't find me
And my family doesn't know
I keep telling them that I'm innocent
They just say, "Come on son, in you go."

I was picked up on suspicion of something I haven't done
Here I sit in 'F' wing waiting for my trial to come
It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
Innocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand

Mark Chesnutt - Bubba Shot the Jukebox

Well, the sheriff arrived with his bathrobe on
The confrontation was a tense one
Shook his head said, "Bubba Boy,"
"You was always a dense one."
Reckless discharge of a gun
That's what the officers are claiming
Bubba hollered, "Reckless! Hell!"
"I shot just where I was aiming."

Willie Nelson's Poncho and Lefty

"All the federales say they could have had him any day ..."

A parody but, still, the funniest song about BigLaw: "I'm Billing Time," sung to Cyndi Lauper's "Time after Time."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkuZ5oI9uY

2:48: excellent

springsteen, friend of the devil

got 2 reasons why i cry away each lonely night
first one's named sweet ann marie
she's my heart's delight
second one is prison, baby
sheriff's on my trail
and if he catches up to me
i'll spend my life in jail

"Cotton Eye Joe"

I had no idea there were so many other rednecks on here....y'all got most of the ones I was thinking about...except one that I can't remember the name of, but had the lyrics "I could never be a lawyer, because I can't pass a bar...."

It's the theme song from "Jail" on UPN - "Get Me Out" by Jon Lee

New rule -- no citing a song except if you know the original artist.

Friend of the Devil was not Springsteen

The Night the Lights went out in Georgia was not Reba McIntyre.

Pancho and Lefty was not Willie and Waylon

etc.

Thanks for playing.

'The Library Stacks' and 'Rejection Letter' by Mikey Mel & The JDs. The Nation's Premier Law Rock Band.

www.myspace.com/mikeymelandthejds

Fall Out Boy - I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT434G38OBg

Fall Out Boy - I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT434G38OBg

To whoever mentioned the Law & Order "da dum" theme - it's by Mike Post, veteran TV music composer who also did the music of LA Law and NYPD Blue.

Dance Move Burglar - Euromotion

"Report you to the dance police
They're going to make you pay
Hard labor, on the dance floor
It's the least that you deserve
Everybody work it, hard labor style"

G-Code by the Getto Boys (that's how they spell it). They practice a kind of law that cares not about your LSAT score, school rank, or billables.

"We don't talk to police, we don't make a peace bond
We don't trust in the judicial system, we shoot guns
We rely on the streets we do battle in the hood
I was born in the G Code, embedded in my blood"

the good life - lovers need lawyers

I like songs that recount judicial proceedings.
For example
The Trial, from The Wall - Pink Floyd.
the spoken-word intro to Don't Lay No Boogie-Woogie On the King Of Rock and Roll - Long John Baldry, wherein he relates his court proceedings for playing his guitar on the street.
and as already noted, Fuck Tha Police, NWA.

Not a song but recommend reading the transcript from Zappa's obscenity trial in England, it can be found in his autobiography, The Real Frank Zappa Book.

Enough with the tired songs played on the classic rock stations or twee rock stations:

"Sequestered in Memphis" -- The Hold Steady.

"Subpoenaed in Texas,
Sequestered in Memphis."

Not only are we lawyers boring, but we have terrible taste in music. Sad.

isn't "i fought the law" originally by buddy holly, not the clash?

i could be wrong, just sayin...

Lights of Loving County--- shooting the sheriff's wife and ending up on TX death row

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.... let them be doctors and lawyers and such

Lights of Loving County--- shooting the sheriff's wife and ending up on TX death row

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.... let them be doctors and lawyers and such

Stevie Wonder - Contract On Love

Second on FallOut Boy.

"Goodbye Your Honor" - New Riders of the Purple Sage

ATL is not accepting any more suggestions for Best Songs About the Law. Look out for a round-up post, and your chance to vote for the best, soon.

Tch, I can't believe nobody mentioned Renegade (oh momma, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law... law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home...), or at least Bohemian Rhapsody (momma, just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead...)

The correct answer is Johnny 99 by Bruce Springsteen.

Honorable Mention to: "Long Black Veil"

Original Lyrics and Music by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin

Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night
Someone was killed beneath the town hall light
There were few at the scene
But they all agreed
That the slayer who ran
Looked a lot like me

She walks these hills in a Long Black Veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me

The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else,
Then you won't have to die."
Well, I said not a word
Though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms
Of my best friend's wife

Oh, she walks these hills in a Long Black Veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me

Oh now, the scaffold was high
Eternity is near
She stood in the crowd
And shed not a tear

Oh, sometimes at night
When the cold winds blow

****in a long black veil
she cries over my bones******

End of the Innocence - Don Henley

"the lawyers clean up all details"