What is wrong with Europe today? I’m not talking about the giant mess that is their economy or why some of their leaders sound like entries in the urban dictionary (read Merkel). Nor am I talking about why dead bodies are turning up on royal property. I’m not even talking about why Pippa Middleton hasn’t called me back yet. Seriously though, holla at me Pippa. No, what is really weird is why they are trying to become American with crazy lawsuits. Stupid lawsuits are as American as apple pie. Now they’ve gone international. I present to you Idiotic Legal News, European edition.
Keep Reading ⇒
I love the Holiday season. Sure, spending time with family and friends is nice, but what I truly love is how it brings out the crazy in everyone. Whether it is camping out at the mall for a deal on a toaster, panic buying your gifts for everyone, or drunk dialing someone on New Year’s Eve, everyone has a moment of stupidity. You could open a law practice specializing in Black Friday events alone.
Keep Reading ⇒
Interested in having your videos, writing, or comic illustrations featured on Bitter Lawyer? Want to drive traffic to your own blog or website? Bitter Lawyer is always interested in receiving high-quality guest submissions, as well as finding new, regular, and humorous contributors.
Whether you want to submit a video, a single guest post, or if you want to become a regular Bitter Lawyer contributor, please email us a proposal or complete and submit the form below.
Keep Reading ⇒
Leave it to two Midwestern states to fight over who gets to be called the “Mitten State.” Plus, Lowering the Bar’s expertise on lap-dancing, the hearsay exception to emoticons, and eating the cash that you steal. It’s the happy hour law review for Thursday, December 8, 2011.
Keep Reading ⇒
In case you didn’t know it, Bitter Lawyer head honchos are Minnesotans, which means we are supposed to be nice and all and we shuffle our shoes and look down at the ground when asked for our opinions on something controversial. Usually we mutter, “that’s interesting.” Yeah, it doesn’t often go that way.
And it’s far from that way for a Minnesota attorney and her client who have raised the ire of one of Minnesota’s bankruptcy judges by filing outrageous and slur-filled documents that have called U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Nancy Dreher a “Catholic Knight Witch Hunter” and “black-robed bigot.” But that’s not all. In rambling court filings, the attorney and her client have stated:
Keep Reading ⇒
For today—which is simultaneously Microwave Oven Day and National Gazpacho Day—we have an artistic challenge to the typical Nativity scene on government property. Plus, police pursue a bicyclist at high speed, bizarre Canadian case comes to an end, and an alleged robber’s commitment to public transit. It’s the happy hour law review for Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
Keep Reading ⇒
Happy Repeal Day, folks, otherwise known as the day we finally neutralized the phrase “beverage purposes” in the U.S. Constitution. In today’s legal humor, we have a Vermont man fighting for the trademark rights of kale. Plus, Justice Scalia recuses himself from a capital murder case, stealing toilet paper from a diner, and breaking into banks legally and then telling about it. It’s the happy hour law review for Monday, December 5, 2011.
Keep Reading ⇒
Today, on the eve of December, we’ve got the top ten items most at risk to be shoplifted during the holiday season. Plus, suing the Pope for failing to wear a seatbelt, Comedians-at-Law announces its Lawmageddon 2012 tour, and an insurer cries no fowl over a $1.2 million car that plunged into a lagoon. It’s the happy hour law review for Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
Keep Reading ⇒
I’m back after a nice Thanksgiving break and I’ve got another story about the misuse of the 911 system. Plus, Bruce Carton of Legal Blog Watch issues a ruling on the pile of shit tattoo case, suing your kidnap victims for breach of contract, and one of the worst forgeries submitted to a magistrate judge. It’s the happy hour law review for Tuesday, November 29, 2011.
Keep Reading ⇒
