Poems
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Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues
Qui Tam: Memo To Outside Counsel
An in-house lawyer offers advice to outside counsel -- in verse. -
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Biglaw, Holidays and Seasons, Kids, Partner Issues
Qui Tam: Not Mother's Day
"She was on the part-time plan (could have fooled me)...." -
Education / Schools, Videos
Lawyer Asks Teacher What He Makes And Had To Listen To Some Dumb Poem
Viral video making the rounds defends the honor of teachers by implying lawyers are worthless. Screw that. -
Biglaw, Drinking, Parties, Summer Associates
Qui Tam: Summer Associates
Are you ready for the arrival of the summer associates? -
Airplanes / Aviation, Depositions, Travel / Vacation
Qui Tam: Business Travel
Do you work while traveling, or do you luxuriate in the "free" travel billables? -
Jury Duty, Litigators, Trials
Qui Tam: Jury's Out
Is jury trial "the grand bulwark of our liberties" -- or just a big disaster? - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Job Searches, Lateral Moves
The Lateral Experience
The lateral experience in a nutshell: it's hard making small talk with your replacements. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel
Fridays, In And Out Of Biglaw
Because the phrase "TGIF" is essentially meaningless when working in Biglaw. -
Biglaw, Food, Summer Associates
Qui Tam: Dinner On The Firm
Dining out on the firm's dime: a time-honored law firm tradition -- where people act like d-bags. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues
Qui Tam: Partners
Some Biglaw partners inspire poetic overtures. Others do not. -
Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Law Schools
Qui Tam: On-Campus Interviewing
Which Biglaw firm sends the coolest interviewers to on-campus interviewing?
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Job Searches, Law Professors, Law Schools
Qui Tam: A Study Of The Legal Profession In Verse
Please welcome Above the Law's new poet in residence, who will be sharing poems about the legal profession in our pages. -
Baseball, ERISA, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Pro Se Litigants, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 12.24.13
Ed. note: Merry Christmas! We will resume our normal publication schedule on Boxing Day. We hope you have a wonderful holiday, and we thank you for your readership. * Adoption, probate, and Elf. You know what child welfare really needs to look into is leaving kids to be raised in a sweatshop; that seems like a much bigger problem than an intestate parent. [The Legal Geeks] * Were you looking for analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kansas v. Cheever, but don’t have time to commit to a full article? Here it is in Haiku. [Supreme Court Haiku] * Man declared a “quarrelsome litigant.” What’s the threshold for that moniker? Well, he filed a case against the Dominican Republic for “bad weather.” [Lowering the Bar] * The Top 5 arrests of guys dressed as Santa. [Legally Weird] * Professor Barry Sullivan of Loyola-Chicago explains how A Christmas Carol shaped his legal philosophy. And yet, if one were to pick one Dickens book to prepare a young lawyer for the profession, a better bet would be Bleak House (affiliate link). [TaxProf Blog] * Happy anniversary to the Curt Flood case! [Lawyers, Guns & Money] -
Contests, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Poetic Justice?
Interested in reading some law-related haikus? Talk about poetic justice... -
Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Holidays and Seasons, Legal Ethics
Lawyer Faces Possible Discipline Over Epic Christmas Poem About Neverending Divorce Case
While poetry may be the best way to make passive-aggressive complaints about your case, the next time you’re considering writing a four-page, 60-line email riffing on a classic holiday poem, you might want to consider your audience... -
Crime, Law Schools, Vanderbilt
Ode to the Guy Stealing Power
We’ve done a lot of stories about alleged thievery at law schools and law firms, and we’ve posted many funny messages from the victims of these crimes looking to get their stuff back. But we haven’t seen anything this elegant before. Law students tend to ask for their stuff back in an argumentative, logical way, […]