Celebrity Lawyers

Celebrity Lawyers
Celebrity and famous lawyers: riding silk down other paths.

last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Crazy Laws - American Style!

Oh! Yes, Dorothy, anything's possible in the US of A; especially deliciously crazy laws!

last updated Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Dumb, Crazy or Stupid Laws Around the World

There has simply never been a more aptly entitled work of art than this one: Dumb, Crazy or Stupid Laws Around the World.

last updated Friday, October 07, 2011

Famous and Celebrity Bankruptcies

Famous and Celebrity Bankruptcies
The falls of the rich and famous are spectacular but as with any bankruptcy, there always a bright red light of financial mismanagement.

last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Famous Wills

Famous Wills
Famous and outrageous last wills and testaments over the ages of human history.

last updated Wednesday, January 04, 2012

LAWmazing

LAWmazing
This stuff is for real, man! Law - justice - legal .... all the weird but totally true stuff is all here, man! You ain't gonna believe it, man!

last updated Saturday, January 07, 2012

Law's Hall of Shame

These are the bad guys of the law; men or women who have perverted justice while, for the most part, trained and gowned in the black sanctity of the sacred profession of law.

last updated Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Legal International Evaluation Society Law School

Stay away unless endowed with a very substantial IQ.

last updated Sunday, October 02, 2011

Outrageous Lawsuits

Outrageous Lawsuits
Keenan Kester Cofield is an American icon. Among his many legal actions, his greatest was suing MacDonald for $1-billion for denying him extra sauce pack for his Chicken McNuggets™, claiming racial bias. The world is full of Cofieldisms. Read on!

last updated Sunday, January 08, 2012

Poetic Justice: Law Poems

Poetic Justice: Law Poems
So few poems on law and justice ... Poetic justice?

last updated Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Dumbest Things Ever Said In Court

The Dumbest Things Ever Said In Court
"Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people." Eventually, while in Court, lawyers multitask and trying too hard to think ahead, utter a stupid question without really being aware of it until it's too late (myself excluded, of course). Here's what you get: The Dumbest Things Ever Said In Court!

last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012

Unusual, Strange & Funny Judicial Decisions and Opinions (USFJDO): Judging With Attitude

Unusual, Strange & Funny Judicial Decisions and Opinions (USFJDO): Judging With Attitude
Judges can be creative and downright funny … upon rare occasion. These examples of weird judicial decisions are so offbeat that we have to give it a unique legal citation: USFJDO!, pronounced U-S-Faa-Jaa-Dio. The gods and goddesses of our bench write it; we print it.

last updated Monday, November 28, 2011

1574: The Possession of Robert Brigges

The story of the Satanic possession of barrister Robert Brigges. The Devil made this lawyer do it. Satan, at once, tried to infect the officer of justice but Brigges beat him off and won us all a reprieve.

last updated Friday, November 06, 2009

Aetna Insurance v Sachs, [1960] USFJDO 1 - The Pissing Poodle

Aetna Insurance v Sachs, [1960] USFJDO 1 - The Pissing Poodle
Multiple dog urine wounds sinks insurance case; Missouri judge sides with insurer against André the poodle.

last updated Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Stauffer, [1849] USFJDO 1

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Stauffer, [1849] USFJDO 1
A Last Will & Testament posed a threat to the whole animal and vegetable kingdom so Justice Lewis snuffed it out.

last updated Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Contempt Of Court: Greatest Hits

Contempt Of Court: Greatest Hits

Contempt of court is a deadly serious matter. Why anybody would risk a fine, jail time or, err, their right hand messing with a judge surrounded by armed sheriffs is beyond us. But if there are people crazy enough to play with fire, we'll be there pen a 'ready!

last updated Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Crazy English Laws – The Sequel

Crazy English Laws – The Sequel
Crazy English Laws II: There were more! How were we to know?!

last updated Saturday, October 15, 2011

Crazy Justice Videos

Finally ... law and justice come to TV or, err, uhh, a computer screen?! Anyway, I digress for here is none other than the ultimate, unedited (some coarse language!) best law or justice videos in the entire world! Note that we're just geting started with these as video's in deposition or Courtrooms is still in its infancy but for now, as of 2007, these are Justice's Craziest Videos!

last updated Monday, February 21, 2011

Crazy Laws - American Style - The Sequel!

Ok! Ok! Leave me alone. I'm sick of all those e-mails whining for more Crazy American laws. Here! Take it! Now leave me alone!

last updated Friday, September 19, 2008

Crazy Laws - English Style (1482-1541)

Crazy Laws - English Style (1482-1541)

What with the benefit of centuries of hoity-toity royalty and barons, earls and the like, the Mother country of the common law just cannot be undone when it comes to crazy laws. My lords, my ladies, other ladies and gentlemen, we give you England!

last updated Friday, November 04, 2011

David Letterman Show Top Ten List Targets Law & Justice

The David letterman Show Top ten Lists have no respect for the law. Thanks for that!

last updated Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Dumbest or Funniest Things Ever Said In Court - III

Dumb and funny things said in court: the best ever, part 3.

last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012

Dumbest or Funniest Things Ever Said In Court IV

Dumb and funny things said in Court IV! The sequel to the sequel's sequel?

last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012

Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson

Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson
Lord Alfred Tennyson's epic poem Enoch Arden inspired the law.

last updated Sunday, December 11, 2011

Even More Crazy English Laws - Part III

More crazy and funny British, English, United Kingdom laws and statutes.

last updated Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Famous Attorney Errors or Lawyer Bloopers

Famous Attorney Errors & Lawyer Bloopers
Lawyurs do make misteaks or erros, although rarly. But when it hapens, the consekwences can be gravity.

last updated Wednesday, November 30, 2011

FAQs re duhaime.org

All you ever wanted to know about this website but were afraid to ask ... and you'll soon discover the merit in the expression "trust your first impressions".

last updated Saturday, July 09, 2011

Funny (and Dumb) Things Ever Said In Court - The Wild West Version

Funny (and Dumb) Things Ever Said In Court - The Wild West Version
Dumb and funny things said in court - the American Wild West version.

last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012

Funny Lawyer Ads

Oh yeah! Oh baby! Oh yeah! Here we go! Funny Lawyer ads! Bring it on! Uh-huh! It's my party! Uh-huh!

last updated Thursday, October 01, 2009

Law and Justice Quotations

The best of the best of law and justice quotations, each with context and background on the quote and the author.

last updated Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Law and Justice World Records

World records for lawyers, the justice system and regarding the law generally. More "legal" than Guinness!

last updated Thursday, October 06, 2011

Law Hodgepodge

All these great legal stories, from antiquity to the OJ trial, and no place to put them. So what do we do? Fill up landfill sites? No siree; not us. We're your favorite legal information web site!

last updated Sunday, September 05, 2010

LAWKids' Only!

Don't even think of ever using the word LawFun including mental inaudible or thought reproduction(s) and any such use shall be brought to a big, scary court where you'll be the DEFENDANT!) in actually preventing all persons of unfun disposition. If you have made it this far, our studies show that YOU ARE A KID!

last updated Sunday, September 05, 2010

Outrageous, Funny or Sad Family Law Cases: It's All a Matter of Perspective

Outrageous, Funny or Sad Family Law Cases: It's All a Matter of Perspective
A pot-pourri of outrageous, funny or sad family law cases; it's all a matter of perspective. These are real live law report cases, all duly documented. We couldn't make this stuff up: it's too good!

last updated Monday, November 07, 2011

Son Of A Bitch Defamation Cases

There are few cases with more Jerry Springer appeal than the cases which must decide whether the insult de jour is defamatory or not. So find out how you can call anyone a cheap bastard, an old maid or an illiterate half-baked crank and maybe get away with it!

last updated Saturday, July 09, 2011

Stupid Criminals, Dumb Crooks

Stupid Criminals, Dumb Crooks
Dumb crimes and stupid crooks: sometimes, there is a God.

last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Funniest Darn Lawyer Jokes In The WDWW ("Whole Darn Wide World")

Why does the law society prohibit sex between lawyers and their clients? A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service. Let's hope I don't get disbarred for this page. Gulp! Well, here goes: The Funniest Darn Lawyer Jokes In The WDWW!

last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Funniest Darn Lawyer Jokes In The WDWW ("Whole Darn Wide World") II

Page 2 of funny lawyer jokes.

last updated Sunday, October 02, 2011

The Night Before Christmas, Legally Speaking

The Night Before Christmas, Legally Speaking
The official police statement re a certain N. Claus.

last updated Friday, December 16, 2011

The Trial of the Hartlepool Monkey

Observing a full-body-furred creature, walking on all fours, speaking a foreign tongue, one can never be too sure, especially so close to the coast of France. But granting due process of law to a monkey is more than what would normally be expected of British justice.

last updated Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Unbelievable Sentences

Unbelievable Sentences
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He wears a black robe and may handle a gavel. Sometimes, the sentences our judges render seem right out of La-la Land.

last updated Sunday, January 08, 2012