Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
You then voted on the finalists. Now it’s time to announce the winner of our caption contest….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: Baby, Baby, Baby, Law”
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Man, it’s been so long since I actually had to read every comment in search of T-shirt worthy wit and humor that I almost forgot how much I hate some of you guys. I can’t wait till my vacation when I get a week away from you guys and I can just sit in bed and roll around in my “too Harvard degreez.”
Earlier this week, we asked you for possible captions for this photo:
One commenter already figured out my nefarious plan: “This is an April Fool’s trick to see how many of us know Justin Bieber songs…” But most of you fell for it….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Finalists: Baby, Baby, Baby, Law”
I bet he gets tons of clients.
Do you know anybody who has called a lawyer based on a subway ad?
Like, I know these clients must exist. There are too many lawyers who advertise on subways for the effort to be useless. So there must be people who read these signs and think, “I should take that number down.”
It’s a good thing for Above the Law. Subway lawyer ads make for great caption contests. Remember this one for something called the Beasley School of Law?
This next ad makes for a good caption contest and a good concert promotion….
Ed. note: Lawyer and journalist Michelle Olsen, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, attended today’s oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the constitutional challenge to the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California.
Her write-up of the proceedings will appear shortly. In the meantime, check out the photographs she took while at the Court, after the jump.
Continue reading “The Proposition 8 Supreme Court Arguments: A Photo Essay”
Earlier this week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
On Wednesday, you voted on the finalists, and now it’s time to announce the winner of our caption contest….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: Futures Made, Bank Accounts Crippled”
Earlier this week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
Let’s have a look at what our readers came up with, and then vote on the finalists….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Finalists: Futures Made, Bank Accounts Crippled”
Previously, we brought you an important flowchart about when you are allowed to leave work from Rob Complains About Things. Rob’s a former Biglaw associate who now artfully describes his prior experiences.
Today, Rob is back with the accurate billable hour breakdown that clients aren’t allowed to see….
Continue reading “The Biglaw Pie Chart That Tells You Where All The Hours Went”
These days, all anyone cares about are employment statistics. Law schools are getting sued over them. Law school rankings are dropping because of them. Law school administrators are losing their jobs over them. It’s at the point where even average joes are aware of the problems law school graduates are having when it comes to getting a job. Dear Lord, when is the madness going to end?!?
Probably as soon as ads like this stop showing up in the most curious of places….
Continue reading “Caption Contest: Futures Made, Bank Accounts Crippled”
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
On Monday, you voted on the finalists, and now it’s time to announce the winner of our caption contest….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Law Dean”
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
Let’s have a look at what our readers came up with, and then vote on the finalists….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Finalists: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Law Dean”
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