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Stuff Lawyers Like

Inspired by “Stuff White People Like” I thought I’d start a new thread. Mainly because for whatever ungodly reason in the last 24 hours I’ve heard 3 different lawyers say “the proof is in the pudding.” Why do lawyers love to say this? Why pudding? What’s worse is that a 2 second Westlaw search revealed at least 400 separate cases that actually use a variation of the phrase. Thank god SCOTUS hasn’t reverted to joining this crowd yet.

Anyone else have certain phrases/idiosyncracies of lawyers that you’d like to voice irritation over?

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "ATL Foreign Bureau: News from Israel and some gratuitous nudity" Friday, April 25, 2008 12:08 PM

Its like abby road... but naked and jewish.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "ATL Foreign Bureau: News from Israel and some gratuitous nudity" Friday, April 25, 2008 4:04 PM

Sorry everyone... I don't keep up with pop music :-(

Chuck fails!

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Judge of the Day: Jesse Harris" Monday, April 28, 2008 11:57 AM

Better yet, what about something like "nine inch long arm of the law"

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Featured Job Survey: Putting The Phat Back In Big Law (but with different spelling)" Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:38 AM

I don't know who that is on the scale, but it depresses me. I'd love to see 155 on the scale again :-(

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Wanna Be A Public Intellectual? Date Cass Sunstein!" Friday, May 2, 2008 3:28 PM

Unless there is truth to the Sunstein/Posner love affair mentioned by 2:20, I think that 2% is a misleading score for Sunstein. I think it is safe to assume he isn't batting both ways, so I ran through the list a counted the number of females on the list.

I don't know which is more disturbing -- that there was only 8 females out of 100, or that Sunstein has slept with 25% of them (that we know of...).

Great post, Lat.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Wanna Be A Public Intellectual? Date Cass Sunstein!" Friday, May 2, 2008 3:41 PM

3:34 - you have to ask because I'm the only person on the planet with the capability to do so.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Happy Shabbos! Schoenfeld v. Allen & Oy-vey-ry Is Settling" Friday, May 9, 2008 1:23 PM

2008 award for worst incorporation of yiddish in a pun

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Happy Shabbos! Schoenfeld v. Allen & Oy-vey-ry Is Settling" Friday, May 9, 2008 1:36 PM

1:32: you settle to get out of having to go through the (inevitable) appeal

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Happy Shabbos! Schoenfeld v. Allen & Oy-vey-ry Is Settling" Friday, May 9, 2008 1:43 PM

Yeah, I didn't read the linked articles before my comment -- just seemed like the most obvious reason to settle after trial to me.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Happy Shabbos! Schoenfeld v. Allen & Oy-vey-ry Is Settling" Friday, May 9, 2008 1:45 PM

Hey, does anyone out there know where my pants are?

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Happy Shabbos! Schoenfeld v. Allen & Oy-vey-ry Is Settling" Friday, May 9, 2008 7:28 PM

agree with 5pm -- you can take the time off, but that stack of doc reviews will still be there when you get back, so who gives a crap?

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Associate Life Survey: Kids and Careers" Monday, May 12, 2008 11:32 AM

11:26 - if you're NOT worried about how having a family might impact your ability to provide for that family, then don't have children because you're clearly not responsible enough to make adult decisions and plan out life decisions in advance.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "A Tale of Two Judges: Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge Elizabeth Halverson" Monday, May 12, 2008 5:43 PM

Halverson to 600 lbs!

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Breaking: California Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage" Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:15 PM

Yeah... what is with the news organizations' slow output. How hard is it to have pre-written stories for 2 possible outcomes and post immediately?

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Breaking: California Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage" Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:22 PM

1:09 - my thoughts exactly.

Deja vu election from 4 years ago. Assholes.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Adventures in Lawyer Advertising: Tom Goldstein Wants To Be Your Lawyer" Friday, May 16, 2008 3:15 PM

First to say WTF?

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Adventures in Lawyer Advertising: Tom Goldstein Wants To Be Your Lawyer" Friday, May 16, 2008 3:19 PM

First to say that this guy is special, just like his writs of certiorari.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Getting To Know You, Getting To Know All About You" Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:00 PM

I'm much happier seeing airline and car ads than the ridiculous amount of John McCain ads that were up a while ago. It made me feel like my patronage to the site was a betrayal of my beloved Barack :-(

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "A Random Friday Poll: 'Lawyer' or 'Attorney'?" Friday, May 30, 2008 1:25 PM

Esquire is for douchebags.

Someone told me once that you are a "lawyer" when you graduate from law school and an "attorney" when you pass the bar. That person was not the most reliable authority, though, so it is probably BS. I use both, but prefer attorney.

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Posted by ChuckNorris in "Morning Docket: 06.04.08" Wednesday, June 4, 2008 10:57 AM

The comments aren't working (or aren't allowed) for the announcement of the ATL writer position, so here's my suggestion:

I think that ATL should hire Loyola 2L. Unless my chronology is warped, I believe he just graduated. He might still need a job and has already proven his ability to generate controversy. I also think it would add a more diverse perspective for hiring/benefits/etc related discussions.

Loyola 2L where are you?