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Gregory Luce
Our recent post about a Memphis tax attorney mischaracterized the lawyer as a “pedophile with a solid cellar to show for it.” It should have read “oenophile,” a person who is a lover or collector of wine. Bitter Lawyer regrets the error.
Our story about an ABA and law school tuition refund plan indicated that the program would pay up to twenty-three months of a “life adjustment stipend” to qualifying law students. The program, however, only allows up to fourteen months.
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Despite appearances to the contrary, there is only one Megablawg. And he works obscurely during the day as a quarter-time lawyer and three-quarter-time life coach. Every waking hour, however, he and his sidekick Microblawg use the latest social media teambuilding technology to keep a keen eye on the uniweb for legal content they can scrape and repost for justice—and the greater good.
Neo-Scrivener is their nemesis. A malodorous failed blawger who has forsworn the internet and has loudly and publicly deleted his Facebook account, Neo-Scrivener nevertheless continues to increase his following through an anonymously written blawg and “postcard” Tweets delivered by US mail. While his postcards have taken on a cult following and fetch high prices on eBay, Neo-Scrivener’s tactics pose a real and imminent threat to the future of successful elawyering. The blawgging world’s hopes now rest with Megablawg.
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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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Paralex, a nondescript and overworked paralegal during the day, packs a powerful legal punch when called on to clean up after prominent superheroes who have typically failed to defeat injustice (her taskmastering after Megablawg fouled up a death penalty appeal is legendary). As superhero scholars have noted on numerous occasions, “Paralex takes no shit.”
“Ultratasking” allows Paralex to combine superhuman abilities into a powerful “epiforce” that can be used for concentrated power on select threats to justice. While Paralex has the power of invisibility, it is not a physical power but one that actually depends on telepathy—i.e., she is physically present but is not actually seen by those around her.
Paralex generally rolls alone for justice, but she occasionally works with Freelance, a mysterious sidekick who—to date—has not yet been positively identified and catalogued.
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