by D'Erra Jackson | Posted in Family Law | Reading Time: 2 minutes
A divorce lawyer has been indefinitely suspended from practicing law after having an affair with his client. But that isn’t the worst part. He was also billing her for the time they were together conducting their affair! Wow. That is a new low! According to news accounts, the lawyer was representing a woman in a…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Laughing @ Lawyers | Reading Time: < 1 minute
This Stupid Criminal story comes to us from down under in Australia. It seems there were four young people living together in an apartment. One of them was not exactly in good graces with his roommates, so the other three decided to kill him. They plotted his death together, arguing over whether they should strangle…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Laughing @ Lawyers | Reading Time: < 1 minute
Ok. So I was geeky enough to watch Back To The Future 2 on “Back To The Future Day” with the rest of the nerds. In case you missed the avalanche of news stories and social media posts, yesterday was October 21, 2015 – the day that Marty and Doc go forward to the future…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Laughing @ Lawyers | Reading Time: 4 minutes
If you think replacing lawyers with robots is a good idea (there are about a million lawyer jokes that come to mind when I write that), you may be in luck. A new report by a tech consulting firm says that within 15 years, robots will replace most lawyers. This is due to advances in…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Laughing @ Lawyers | Reading Time: 2 minutes
Workers’ compensation fraud is not funny. Luckily, it is also pretty rare. I have had very few clients caught on video doing something they claimed they couldn’t do, but I could count them on one hand. That is pretty good for an 18 year career so far. But sometimes, a workers’ comp fraud case is…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Laughing @ Lawyers | Reading Time: 2 minutes
Here are some weird and whacky food laws from around the world: France banned the use of tomato ketchup in elementary schools in 2011. Children tend to use ketchup to hide the taste of food, and the French authorities thought this was nothing less than an assault on their culture. In Singapore, it is illegal…
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