December 2011

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What in the Bitter Lawyer is going on in this picture?

Put your lawyerly wisdom to the test and post a comment below or on Facebook with a witty, hilarious, or brilliant caption. And keep it clean(ish) and, y’know, respectful.

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I don’t get to write real posts. Bitter Lawyer editors instead forward letters and emails to me, typically with the notation “here ya go”—at which point I’m expected to answer them. I don’t answer them all. In fact, I answer a few. Those that get tossed or go unanswered have one of three general attributes, sometimes all three attributes simultaneously:
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View the rest of the Clients Gone Wild! series on Bitter Lawyer. And for New York, California, and Minnesota attorneys, receive ethics credit for watching the full version of the series on ShowCourse.com. Use coupon code BITTERLAWYER for 10% off the registration cost.

At a friend’s encouragement, I met with a man named Joe to discuss “a once-in-a-lifetime entrepreneurial opportunity.” To be exact, my astute, older, wiser friend said, “This guy’s the next Walt Disney, and he’s looking for a partner.”

Who can say no to Walt Disney? Especially when you’re a miserable, self-hating corporate lawyer working for a joyless and sadistic law firm with a prestigious name and oversized reputation.
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See more of the Bottom Rung on Bitter Lawyer, including a growing library of the characters that make up the dark and hilarious underworld of document review.

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Post image for Best of Bitter Lawyer, 2011 Edition

Whether you come to Bitter Lawyer to get bad career advice or to see if a lawyer is doing worse than you, we likely have what you are looking for. Since we started things back up in April we’ve added more than 126,000 posts, 65,724 videos, and more new comics than we can count. Here are the topsellers from all 356,603* posts, videos, podcasts, or comics that we threw at you in 2011.
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The iBaby Generation

by Law Firm 10 on December 27, 2011 in Columns

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Maybe this is yet another example of me being an out of touch childless single person—but lack of direct personal experience has never stopped me from issuing judgment before, so why stop now? After spending all of Christmas day with my cousins’ babies and toddlers, my dissatisfaction with an ostensibly new cultural phenomenon reached its climax:

What is the deal with babies playing on iPads? What is with these iBabies?
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Guide to Law School Finals

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Post image for Caption This! December 23, 2011

What in the stock photo is going on in this picture?

Put your lawyerly wisdom to the test and post a comment below or on Facebook with a witty, hilarious, or brilliant caption. Provide your own creative caption or try to guess the description provided by Shutterstock (sure you can cheat by going to Shutterstock, but that’s a Rule 4.1 violation.)

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