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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 10, 2014
- 2 min
Imagine Being the Judge on this Motion from the SAC Capital Hedge Funder Now on Trial for Insider Tr
Imagine being the judge in this case. Background: The case is the Martoma criminal trial for insider trading at SAC Capital. The allegations are that Mr. Martoma was paying off a doctor for inside information on inside news of the results on a major drug trial. On obtaining inside word of bad results (which would hurt the stock), he tipped his direct boss and uber boss, the ever-charming Steve Cohen. As the defense story goes, Mr. Cohen did not get a direct tipping email, and
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 12, 2013
- 1 min
Who Wants to Defend this Case Involving a Drunk Drive Rear Ending a State Trooper?
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin runs a service that reports on new complaints filed in Cook County in state court. The service describes the case as follows – it sure sounds like an awful case to defend on the merits. Maybe there is more to the story, but … "Complaint alleges that Defendant Clark collided with the rear of the state trooper vehicle being operated by Plaintiff, which was legally stopped at the time of the accident. Defendant was allegedly negligent in operating
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 6, 2013
- 1 min
“The Merry Old Land of Lawz” – Some Lawyers Are Creative, and Sing and Dance Too !
For Chicagoans looking for wickedly smart humor this weekend, consider singing and dancing lawyers presenting the Chicago Bar Association’s annual year end show of musical skits lampooning everybody. We saw it Wednesday night and it was great, with its theme built around the Wizard of Oz. Our favorite skit of the evening played off the recent Illinois law change to allow gay marriage. The skit was to the tune of "ding, dong, the witch is dead." But in the skit, the lyric inst
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 16, 2013
- 1 min
Deer Hunting with a Statistician, a Plaintiff’s Lawyer and a Defense Lawyer
I forgot to post the following legal humor from the Garlock trial. The humor is from the trial judge, the summary below is from T. K. Kim of Legal NewsLine. "August 6, 2013 7:16 AM By T.K. KIM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Legal Newsline) – As Garlock Sealing Technololgies ongoing bankruptcy trial prepared to break for lunch after more than three hours of cross examination of an economist Monday, Judge George Hodges relayed a bit of dead pan levity. A plaintiff’s attorney, a defense attor
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 7, 2013
- 1 min
Bruce Carton Nails TSA for the Silliness About Items Now Allowed on Planes
Perhaps legal writing instructors should provided students with examples of Bruce Carton’s legal writing. The man knows how to make a point with just a few words, such as a new post that nails the TSA for ongoing silliness in new rules for items allowed on planes. #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 15, 2012
- 1 min
The Scorecard for Laughter at SCOTUS
Courtesy of Bruce Carton at Law.com, links to and a summary of the annual Supreme Court laughs count from Boston University law professor Jay Wexler. Should we be worried or happy that Justice Scalia generated 14 laughs during the oral argument on "Obamcare"? #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 24, 2012
- 1 min
Lawyer Humor
Lawyer humor from 1945 and by James Thurber. #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 14, 2012
- 1 min
Lawyer Advertising Humor
Courtesy of the WSG Law Blog and Martindale, you can see humorous legal advertising. #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 20, 2012
- 1 min
Pre-litigation Letters – in the 1920s, with Will Rogers
Courtesy of yet another wonderful post from Bruce Carton at Law.com, consider these pre-litigation letters to and from Will Rogers. The web site holding the letters is unusual in its own right – it’s called Letters of Note. #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 5, 2012
- 1 min
Compilation of Lawyers on the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, Including a Peabody Award for a Se
Brian Baxter at American Lawyer has provided an article aggregating information on lawyers appearing on the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. The other night, Thomas Goldstein of Scotusblog was quite good on the Daily Show as he spoke about the healthcare cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, and the recent U.S. Supreme Court case he lost – the rapidly infamous and much ridiculed 5-4 decision opinion deferring to police decisions to strip search anyone who is arrested for anyth
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 10, 2012
- 1 min
Things You Cannot Do on a Plane
Here’s the link to Volume 14 of "Things You Cannot Do on a Plane." It’s from Bruce Carton’s wonderful blog/articles on Law.com. All the rules are reminders of the saying "be careful out there," a phrase used to good effect on Hill Street Blues, one of the first "real life" shows about law and order. As third year law students, we used to RUN out of a night class to see the show. Apparently some airplane passengers never received the message. #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
10 Greatest Legal Movie Lines
Courtesy of this post on the Legal Blog Watch, which reposted work by Bloomberg Law … "Selecting the ’10 Greatest Legal Movie Lines’ Last week, Bloomberg Law put together an interesting series of video clips in an effort to collect the "10 funniest, most moving, or most inspiring legal movie lines." The full video ("The 10 Greatest Legal Movie Lines") … is a lot of fun to watch." #Humor
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 10, 2009
- 1 min
Legal Humor – Judicial Fiat
http://www.courtoons.net/2009/06/10/fiat/ #Humor
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