BitterLawyer.com’s original series: Nick interviews for his dream job at a prestigious law firm. But that turns into a nightmare. [JH]
Archive for the ‘Friday Fun’ Category
Friday Fun: TV Station Uses Hand Puppets to Recreate Courtroom Scenes in Corruption Trial
27
Jan
Why? Because the TV station was not allowed to take cameras into the federal courtroom to cover a former Ohio county commissioner. Lowering the Bar’s Kevin Underhill, comments “I think that all court proceedings should be reported in this way,…
Friday Fun: Time for Contract Law Karaoke
20
Jan
Starting with Chicken in a Contract (Frigaliment Importing Co v BNS International Sales). For more songs from classic cases of first-year contract law, visit R.B. Craswell’s Contract Songs. [JH]
Friday Fun: Verbal Brain Jammers
13
Jan
HBR blogger Dan Pallotta reviews five strains of the jargonism epidemic at I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore. You can also listen to Dan explain why we still use jargon even though we hate it, and vote for…
Friday Fun: The Unemployment Crisis
06
Jan
… for people with facial tattoos! I’m not sure Title VII is intended to protect this class but I’m thinking some lawyer might try to make the case. [JH]
Friday Fun: Santa Visits the Library During Finals Week
23
Dec
Santa visits LSU Middleton Library during finals week. Student: I’ve been a good boy, Santa Santa: What would you like for Christmas? Student: A’s on my finals. Santa: I don’t know if I can quite pull that off but I’ll…
Friday Fun: The Bottom Rung Job
16
Dec
Bitter Lawyer’s Matt Ritter writes “Bottom Rung out of my own experience doing document review in Los Angeles. Until I moved out to LA in 2010, I worked as a big firm corporate associate in New York and had never…
Friday Fun: Repurposing Law Reporter Volume Bindings as Carpeting
09
Dec
Talk about law libraries going green! How about law reporter bindings as floor covering? The below picture demonstrates how to recycle West reporters from an Artspace (New Haven, CT) exhibit called Library Science. OK, I doubt the intent of the…
Friday Fun: Going Green by Repurposing Legal Reporter Volumes into Book Flasks
02
Dec
The Bender Books folks have “come up with a new twist on the book flask. Rather than mass-produce fake books, or concentrate on the classics, we want to take professional and reference books like legal reporters, medical books, cook books,…
