Bad Ideas
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Bad Ideas, Drinking, Parties
Pulling 'The Hangover' In Real Life Will Get You Arrested, Sued
In real life, the tiger in the Vegas hotel room eats you and you die. -
Bad Ideas, In-House Counsel, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Inside Straight: No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
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Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Facebook, Food, Reality TV, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Television
Social Media Darlings at Amy's Baking Company Fear Lawsuit
From the social media meltdown of the century to the best threatened lawsuit yet.
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Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Free Speech, Legal Ethics, Partner Issues, Summer Associates, Women's Issues
Lawyer Claims His 'Slut-Shaming' Is Protected By the First Amendment -- Just Like the Founders Intended
Hell hath no fury like a patent practitioner romantically scorned. -
Bad Ideas, Job Searches, Law Schools
If You Don't Want to Be a Lawyer, Don't Go to Law School
Half of pre-law students don't even want to be real lawyers. Why are they going to law school?! -
Bad Ideas, Guns / Firearms, Technology, Texas, Violence
3D Printers Don't Kill People, Guns Made With 3D Printers Kill People.
A law student tries to ruin 3D printing for everyone by turning it into a loophole to evade gun laws. Because... freedom! -
Bad Ideas, Drinking, Law Schools, Parties
Later, When Students Have Sex On Or With A Duck Boat, The Law School Will Regret Rationing Water
Shouldn't water always be free if we care about student intoxication? -
General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Legal Ethics, Screw-Ups
Inside Straight: On Blabbing
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann shares a few examples of how NOT to protect client confidences. - Sponsored
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Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
Florida Space Coast School of Law: Not An Onion Headline
Space Coast School of Law is as silly as it sounds... -
Bad Ideas, Football, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Sports
Quote of the Day: Dreaming of a Third-String Law School?
Perhaps this football player's spot in the line-up is indicative of his future law school's ranking. -
Bad Ideas, Christopher Christie, FCC, Guns / Firearms, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Police, Television, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Non-Sequiturs: 12.28.12
* U.S. Attorneys are rising up, taking office, and conducting their business like hard-ass prosecutors. [Wall Street Journal] * If only they had more guns at the police station, this might never have happened. [Fox News] * Of course, out in Arizona, the state attorney general is pushing for an “armed posse” to patrol schools. Arizona: where bad ideas go to be fruitful and multiply. [NBC News] * Would you give your kidney to your favorite law professor? I wouldn’t, but I would consider taking the kidney of my least favorite law professor and giving it to, well, pretty much anybody else. [Wake Forest School of Law] * “Aereokiller” has been ordered to stop killing TV networks. [Film On] * Wait, we still have “longshoremen”? For real, not just as the backdrop for a season of the Wire? [Miami Herald] * Should law deans be “disbarred”? I like how people have to spend all this time just trying to figure out how to get law deans to tell the truth. [Tax Prof Blog] -
Bad Ideas, Lawyer of the Day, Lunacy, Small Law Firms
Lawyer of the Day: Sorry Judge, But I'm Unavailable Due to the Mayan Apocalypse
It's the end of the world as we know it, so I'm not coming to court, judge! -
Bad Ideas, Federal Circuit, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, Trademarks
Quote of the Day: Well, This Gives a Whole New Meaning to the Phrase 'Oral Argument'
You wanted to call your lollipop what? That sounds so dirty!
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Advice for the Lawlame, Bad Ideas, Law Professors, Law Schools, Libraries / Librarians, Parties
Law Profs Have Holiday Party In The Reading Room During Exam Period
Hmm... what's the worst place at a law school to hold a holiday party? -
Abortion, Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas, Divorce Train Wrecks, Judge of the Day, Pregnancy / Paternity, Rank Stupidity, Sex, Sex Scandals, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge of the Day: A State Judge's Alleged Affair and Baby Mama Drama Exposed -- Via Incriminating Texts
The Michigan judge who sent half-naked pictures of himself to a bailiff via text is now back in the news with some more scandalous (and sexy) allegations. -
Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas, Judge of the Day, Legal Ethics, Pornography, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
A Former Judge of the Day Admits He's Been 'Addicted to Porn' Since Childhood
A state judge in Illinois admits that he's addicted to porn, but will that save his career? -
Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Contracts, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Money, Morning Docket, Music, Patents, Pornography, Real Estate, Shakira, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Technology
Morning Docket: 12.03.12
* When it comes to the art of law firm valuation, you may be surprised when you find out which Biglaw firm is worth the most. Here are a few hints: it’s not Baker & McKenzie, and it’s not DLA Piper or Skadden, either. [American Lawyer]
* Remember back in July when this Judge of the Day was busying clicking on hardcore porn sites while in chambers? As it turns out, now he’s busy crying in court while battling to keep his judicial career intact. [Chicago Sun-Times]
* Evening students are capable of doing more than ruining your class rank. Jacob Lew, once a night student at Georgetown Law, is now the White House chief of staff assisting with fiscal cliff negotiations. [New York Times]
* For now, the only thing that’s keeping Florida from gaining another law school is a lack of square footage in the real estate rodeo. But that’s probably a good thing, because adding a twelfth law school would be more than a little ridiculous. [Daytona Beach News-Journal]
* Samsung’s trying to get out of paying $1.05B to Apple, and their lawyers are trying to pin knowledge of the jury foreman’s misrepresentations on their technological nemesis to get the verdict thrown out. [Bloomberg]
* Shakira’s hips don’t lie, but her contracts allegedly do. The sexy singer’s ex-business partner (who’s also her ex-boyfriend) is suing her for $100M to “recover his share of past and future partnership profits.” [Billboard]
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Bad Ideas, Blog Wars, Blogging, Defamation, Federal Government, Free Speech, New Orleans, Rank Stupidity, Technology, U.S. Attorneys Offices
When Anonymous Commenting Goes Wronger
Can you believe what's going on in the U.S. Attorney's Office down in New Orleans? -
Bad Ideas, Holy Crap, Pornography, Sex, Sex Scandals, Videos
A New York Prosecutor Admits to a Very Porny Past -- And May Be Forced to Resign Over It
A New York prosecutor was forced to admit he once starred in hardcore porn films in the 70s. Will he resign? -
Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
We've Already Mocked Michigan Law's Secret Society, Now It's Time to Mock Their Law Fraternity
What kind of insane initiation stunts can you look forward to if you join Phi Delta Phi at Michigan Law?