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Illustrated Guide to Lawyer Words

by Albert Wang on May 14, 2012

Superheroes of the Legal Profession: COBRA

by Bitter Staff on May 10, 2012

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COBRA is known informally among her peers as the superhero of legal paperwork–whose name is short for “cobra de capello” or “serpent of the hood.” Though secretive and shy by nature, COBRA possesses the power to shapeshift reams of paper forms into ever-elusive “qualifying events.” With help from sidekick Boy 102, COBRA can prevent disastrous health care coverage termination, provided a person has available capital or credit.

Alto Premo stands in the way of COBRA’s ultimate quest to make the federal health care code understandable and enforceable. With the ability to spew paper forms and federal requirements from his specialized Congressional formulator ray, Premo is a master of legal confusion and chaos. Beware.
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Animal Lawyer

by Albert Wang on May 7, 2012

Law School Exam Prep

by Albert Wang on April 30, 2012

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Anatomy of a Lawyer

by Albert Wang on April 23, 2012

View more comics by Albert Wang or by Bitter Lawyer staff, including Devolution of the Lawyer, Courtroom Yoga Moves, Illustrated, or the Alcohol Guide for Law Students.

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Superheroes of the Legal Profession: Executrix

by Bitter Staff on April 19, 2012

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Sheila Stackford is a somewhat dowdy and mild-mannered estate planning lawyer by day. But, with the menace of “Death Tax”—formally known as Dr. 706—she leaps into action and becomes Executrix, an uberdefender of the freedom to inherit without a hitch. Relying on her sidekick Ultrateen to track down every conceivable heir, devisee, and remote beneficiary assign, Executrix can dispense justice—and an heirloom set of silver butter knives—within 16 days of a decedent’s death. Tax free. How does she do it? We don’t know.

Dr. 706 is her enemy, looking for any reason to dash the hopes and dreams of adult children, at times fomenting dissent among siblings and exacting damage with typos and miscalculated beneficiary shares. If Dr. 706 is around, suffice it to say that Executrix and Ultrateen are not far behind to correct what he hath wrought.
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