Celebrity and famous lawyers: riding silk down other paths.
Oh! Yes, Dorothy, anything's possible in the US of A; especially deliciously crazy laws!
There has simply never been a more aptly entitled work of art than this one: Dumb, Crazy or Stupid Laws Around the World.
The falls of the rich and famous are spectacular but as with any bankruptcy, there always a bright red light of financial mismanagement.
Famous and outrageous last wills and testaments over the ages of human history.
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.
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!
Stay away unless endowed with a very substantial IQ.
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!
So few poems on law and justice ... Poetic justice?
"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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
The David letterman Show Top ten Lists have no respect for the law. Thanks for that!
Funny moments in Scotland legal history.
Lord Alfred Tennyson's epic poem Enoch Arden inspired the law.
Lawyurs do make misteaks or erros, although rarly. But when it hapens, the consekwences can be gravity.
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".
Oh yeah! Oh baby! Oh yeah! Here we go! Funny Lawyer ads! Bring it on! Uh-huh! It's my party! Uh-huh!
George T. Smith, railroad conductor with the Southern Railway Company, lived in Virginia, and died there in December of 1908.
He was survived by ...
Horace Lawson Huntley, lawyer, and submarine innovator and American Civil War hero.
Larry, Sam and Catherine; the Larry, Moe and Curly of family law - called out in Justice J. W. Quinn's delicious decision.
The best of the best of law and justice quotations, each with context and background on the quote and the author.
World records for lawyers, the justice system and regarding the law generally. More "legal" than Guinness!
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!
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!
Louisa Strittmater's 1944 Will showed she was a men-hater ... and a Mom-hater. It was enough to have it set aside.
It was December, 1852 when the case of McKinney v Clarke came before a Nashville, Tennessee judge who just happen to have the very same surname as the...
Attorney ads, often delicious but not always kosher.
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!
Gurnek Singh's horrible day in Court.
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!
Dumb crimes and stupid crooks: sometimes, there is a God.
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!
The official police statement re a certain N. Claus.
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.
Every once in a while, a decision is handed down that shocks. Sometimes, it is merely a reflection of the media coverage. Other times, even fellow judges might be found scratching their heads.