Trick or treat?! Halloween is TODAY, but let’s face it, most people in the legal community — especially the law students — may have already donned their favorite witty (or incredibly naughty) costumes. Good thing there’s still plenty of time to have fun tonight! (UPDATE 10/31/19: This post has been updated for Halloween.)
For the tenth year in a row, we here at Above the Law are soliciting legally themed costumes for our annual Halloween contest. We’re continually impressed with how creative lawyers and law students can be when they take their noses out of their books.
Have you got what it takes to top the winners of years past? We hope so!
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Here are the winning looks from the past few years of the contest: Nefarious RBG (2015), the Donald J. Trump College of Law (2016), The Bluebook (2017), and Brett Kavanaugh’s calendar and his beer (2018).
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Please email us your pictures and then we’ll vote on the winner of our annual competition. We’re all looking forward to judging you!
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.