Category Archives: zoo

billable whores

September 5, 2006 – 5:57 pm

We all know what its like being on the billable hours treadmill. Davy Tang a solicitor from Surrey had a slightly different tack on this problem. What he provided, at an hourly rate, was the services of 35 women to provide ‘marital relations advice’. One of these associates earnt him £1550 in one week […]

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Ongoing professional education

July 19, 2006 – 7:36 pm

Geeklawyer is currently having to engage in the Bars ongoing tiresome and never-ending requirement to keep up to date with his legal education and skills.

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It’s for you My Lord

July 10, 2006 – 10:43 pm

Everyone can have a bad day, including judges it seems. U.S. District Court Judge William Shubb threw a bit of a fit when a mobile phone went off during a case. Demanding the phone from the owner he flung it out of the court door whereupon it demised with good grace from the embarrassment […]

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Court of Appeal to Sony: PS2 is just a games machine & BTW your lawyers suck ass

June 20, 2006 – 12:05 pm

In what must be one of the most stinging rebukes to a ‘proper’ claimant, the Court of Appeal went bezerk and ripped into Sony.
Jesus, there was blood everywhere. It was liked a scene from Kill Bill with Lord Justice Chadwick swinging his samurai sword with gay abandon: the ancient walls of the court sprayed with […]

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Cherie squash

June 19, 2006 – 5:32 pm

Thanks to Liadnan for giving Geeklawyer the opportunity to point at Cherie Blair and giggle. He told the tale on the chat forum that the Malaysian Bar had told her, in nearly so many words: “We have enough senior barristers of our own thank you, please piss off”.

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Judge caught slacking at work

June 9, 2006 – 6:31 pm

Employers have complained for 15 years about employees playing computer games when they should be working and have occasionally sacked them. But what do you do when you’re in the middle of a murder trial and you catch sight of the judge playing Solitaire?

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Fundamentalist law schools?! WTF

February 18, 2006 – 5:45 pm

Craggie.net writes to Geeklawyer with news of the creation of a fundamentalist law school by a dodgy sounding ‘Liberty University’ and that has now got the approval of the American Bar Association. Presumably they will now churn out row upon row of presentable young men with identical suits, nice short haircuts all clutching bibles and […]

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android lawyers

January 10, 2006 – 3:04 pm

We are all to be replaced, apparently, by robots lawyers. This is an intriguing idea about automating arbitration but Geeklawyer doesn’t see how pre-digesting dispute information can occur in any useful way that would allow an automated system to make resolution suggestions. More detail would be useful.

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Bush nominee Alito’s a boost to technologists?

November 2, 2005 – 7:17 pm

News.com reports that Alito may be tech industry friendly. The US Supreme Court has heard many pivotal tech cases in recent times: Sony Grokster etc. While it could have been better, the Grokster decision was not the disaster it could have been to the tech industry (even if the entertainment is painting it as such […]

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Second most stupid IP lawyer?

October 21, 2005 – 5:18 pm

Perhaps not so intermittent…
Out-law reports on a UK ex-IP lawyer nailed for a domain name grab. The domain name grab itself is an Internet variant of an old old game played by chancers since, well, not sure how long but it’s a long time. It goes like this: grab a company name ransom it off […]

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