Each Saturday we reach into the fridge and pull out the best leftovers to eat. That is, the most-read posts of the past week, which for the week ending March 23, 2012, include:
Looking for more? Start here or dig into the Bitter Lawyer archives, featuring more than 1,600 articles, comics, videos, and podcasts.
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While not the most exciting civilian—being a frequent fixture on the eDiscovery vendor circuit and giving out Tootsie Rolls at legal tech shows in New York—Redactor is indispensable in keeping sensitive metadata from spilling out and ruining a partner’s lunch. His black matter gazerbeam will annihilate basic text and even eviscerate microbial signs of useless information. In addition, he’s a top Adobe Acrobat reseller and knows when and how to use “batch” mode in Adobe Acrobat X.
Metadatrix, otherwise known as the evil purveyor of revelation, is Redactor’s nemesis and continues to dog his pursuit of eliminating embarrassing data. But with Redactor’s recent signing of Kid Xacto to a three-year vendor contract, Metadatrix’s days may be numbered. Stay tuned.
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Put your lawyerly wisdom to the test and post a comment below or on Facebook with a witty, hilarious, or brilliant caption to this retro clip art, courtesy of Shutterstock.com. And keep it clean(ish) and, y’know, respectful.
The editors’ pick will be announced next week, and then we’ll post the clip art with the text on Facebook.
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Greetings and congratulations to those of you about to graduate from law school, especially those of you in Florida. We are writing to all law students in Florida in the hope we reach those of you who are graduating from law school with Sam E. Goldberg, aka “Mr. Law School.” Why take this extraordinary step and contact all Florida law students? Well, we want him to be your next student commencement speaker, for five solid reasons:
1Mr. Law School is not a gunner. Thus, he won’t use this opportunity once again to include a wholly misplaced but apparently hilarious (to others) comment about Footnote 3 of the Carolene Products case. In fact, we have it on solid knowledge that one gunner-nominee is planning to hand out an “advance copy” of his speech (subtitled a “fascinating romp through the history of the Corpus Juris Civilis”) so you and your parents can follow along as he peppers the speech with dozens of “ibids,” “supras,” and “infras.” You don’t deserve that. Don’t vote for that guy. You know who we are talking about.
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We continue our interviews with the Comedians at Law, six former or current lawyers who are schlepping across the country in a national Lawmageddon Tour. You can find them this week in Boston and Los Angeles, and at both places you can find J-L Cauvin, Georgetown Law grad, former Bronx prosecutor, and current stand-up comic. And a mix of other things, as he’s quick to tell you.
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Each Saturday we reach into the fridge and pull out the best leftovers to eat. That is, the most-read posts of the past week, which for the work week ending March 16, 2012, include:
Looking for more? Start here or dig into the Bitter Lawyer archives, featuring more than 1,600 articles, comics, videos, and podcasts.
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Put your lawyerly wisdom to the test and post a comment below or on Facebook with a witty, hilarious, or brilliant caption to this retro clip art, courtesy of Shutterstock.com. And keep it clean(ish) and, y’know, respectful.
The editors’ pick will be announced next week, and then we’ll post the clip art with the text on Facebook.
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At work in the law school underworld, Doctor Juris is a powerful ally to, well, no one really knows for sure. With mind bending and numerological mesmerization, Doctor Juris has built up a large cadre of underlawyers whom he says are “working for justice and opportunity.”
But the recent actions of Lex Lucid—a disgruntled law school grad believed to have “gone to the light side”—has led to growing doubts about Doctor Juris’s continued hold on legal reality. In response, Doctor Juris has recruited Grey Gunner (aka “T14″) to help him fend off the hordes of Lucid minions who now openly challenge Juris’s claim of legal superhero status. An expected battle between Lucid and Juris should be epic.
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At Bitter Lawyer, we are not immune to the troubles of lawyers. Business is hurting, LegalZoom continues to devastate the market, and over-leveraged law firm partners just won’t retire. On top of that, law schools are annually cranking out new grads by the millions, only some of whom will find full-time employment. Which got the bigwigs at Bitter Lawyer thinking: Why not start a relief fund for lawyers? And that’s just what we’ve done.
We sat down with Bitter Lawyer’s editor recently to talk about the issue and to learn more about what a legal humor and entertainment site is trying to do to address malaise in the profession. Here’s what he had to say.
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