Celebrity Lawyers

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

last updated Sunday, May 06, 2012

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 Sunday, April 29, 2012

Law 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 Sunday, May 20, 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

Legal International Evaluation Society Law School

Legal International Evaluation Society Law School
Stay away unless endowed with a very substantial IQ.

last updated Monday, April 09, 2012

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 Monday, February 27, 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, March 10, 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 Thursday, May 17, 2012

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

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 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

Dumb and Funny Things Said In Court: The Scotland Chronicles

Dumb and Funny Things Said In Court: The Scotland Chronicles
Funny moments in Scotland legal history.

last updated Sunday, March 25, 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

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 Sunday, May 20, 2012

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, March 31, 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

George Smith's Seven-Word Will

George T. Smith, railroad conductor with the Southern Railway Company, lived in Virginia, and died there in December of 1908. He was survived by ...

last updated Sunday, April 29, 2012

Horace Lawson Hunley, 1823-1863, Submarine Innovator

Horace Lawson Huntley, lawyer, and submarine innovator and American Civil War hero.

last updated Sunday, May 06, 2012

Larry, Sam and Catherine: Paging Dr. Freud, [2010] USFJDO 1

Larry, Sam and Catherine: Paging Dr. Freud, [2010] USFJDO 1
Larry, Sam and Catherine; the Larry, Moe and Curly of family law - called out in Justice J. W. Quinn's delicious decision.

last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012

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

Louisa F. Strittmater's Feminist Will | All Males Put to Death at Birth

Louisa F. Strittmater's Feminist Will | All Males Put to Death at Birth
Louisa Strittmater's 1944 Will showed she was a men-hater ... and a Mom-hater. It was enough to have it set aside.

last updated Sunday, April 29, 2012

McKinney v Clarke | The Drunken Degraded Loathsome Husband

McKinney v Clarke | The Drunken Degraded Loathsome Husband
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...

last updated Sunday, May 06, 2012

Outrageous Attorney Ads: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Outrageous Attorney Ads: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Attorney ads, often delicious but not always kosher.

last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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

Pirbhai v. Singh, 2010 USFJDO 2 | Friend of Friend Not Necessarily Friend.

Pirbhai v. Singh, 2010 USFJDO 2 | Friend of Friend Not Necessarily Friend.
Gurnek Singh's horrible day in Court.

last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012

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 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
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.

last updated Monday, February 27, 2012