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In this economy, lawyers are being forced to roll up their sleeves and learn new tricks of the trade. Some have even taken up the practice of Door Law — they’ll take any case that walks through the door. Other lawyers have expanded their horizons to offer services that are wholly unrelated to the law. Desperate times call for truly desperate measures.
Check out this advertisement — if you can even call it that — for a lawyer who really seems willing to do just about anything for a buck…
Here’s the picture for our caption contest. This lawyer’s “practice” doesn’t sound shady at all, not one bit:
Same rules as always: submit possible captions in the comments. Please try to be funny. We’ll choose our favorites — with preference given to those with a legal bent — and then let you vote for the best one.
Please submit your entries by SUNDAY, APRIL 20 at 11:59 P.M. (Eastern time). Thanks!
Some law professors are cool, some are complete weirdos, and some do creepy things like this:
Paging Dr. Law to the dean’s office…
Last night, someone sent us this picture (originally posted on Reddit), with the explanation that it was taken at a “competitive law school.” This well-dressed man seems to be eavesdropping on the study group inside a room at the law school’s library by pressing a stethoscope against the glass.
At first, we thought it was a student gunning incredibly hard at a T14 law school, but then we found out that this was no gunner at all. In fact, it’s not even that “competitive” of a law school, unless you count the recent graduates who are competing for scarce jobs with their retroactively inflated transcripts.
This is a picture of Professor Hiro Aragaki, who teaches Negotiation at Loyola Law School – Los Angeles. He’s apparently listening in on some group exercises, but we’ve got to wonder what possible academic reason would inspire a professor to observe his students in this unorthodox kind of way.
He didn’t want to distract his students, you say? The only thing more distracting than a creepy law professor pressed up against the window (with a stethoscope, no less) would be coming to the sudden realization that this man is likely being paid six figures to do it.
Assuming there is no better way to accomplish this goal, props to Professor Aragaki for coming up with a unique if unconventional method to observe his class. We reached out to him for an explanation of his academic stylings, and we’ll update this post as soon as we hear back from him.
Otherwise, we’ll be left to believe he’s still clinging to broken dreams of going to med school, and the stethoscope is all he’s got left. Damn you, MCAT. Damn you to hell. I go to a competitive law school. [WTF / Reddit] Earlier: Loyola Law School (L.A.) Retroactively Inflates Grades
As is customary with our caption contests, we will now reveal the backstory behind the picture. The picture was taken in New Haven, Connecticut, and it features the Irving J. Pinsky Van, which has its very own Facebook page. Its slogan? “Bringing the law to the streets, and bringing the law to the people!!”
Hey, Mr. Pinsky, if you really want to bring the law to the streets, you should consider adding our winning caption to the side of your van. It would certainly bring additional flair to your litigation mobile:
Pinsky Law: With offices in Midtown… now Downtown… now Midtown again.
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, another judge goes and pulls a Weiner. In case you haven’t heard, Wade McCree, a state judge from Michigan, has been accused of sending nearly-nude photos to a bailiff via sext message. That’s right, we’ve got judicial divos posing for male pin-up shots right here in America (sorry to steal your Canadian thunder, Madam Justice Lori Douglas).
As they say on the internet, TTIWWOP — “This Thread Is Worthless Without Pictures.” Well, we’ve got one (safe for work, of course)….
Now, you’d think that a man wearing a bow tie would be conservative, but not Judge McCree. He’s sexy, and he knows it — no, seriously, he really is. Fox Detroit has the story:
A husband is upset after finding a photo of a nearly nude man on his wife’s cell phone. She says the photo came from her boss? What does she do for a living? She’s a court bailiff. Who’s her boss? Detroit 3rd Circuit Judge Wade McCree.
Needless to say, the bailiff’s husband was pissed — he filed a complaint with Michigan’s Judicial Tenure Commission. But he also did what any spouse would do if he were afraid of putting a beating on a man: he brought Judge McCree’s textual interpretation of his hot bod to the media’s attention.
Judge McCree, however, doesn’t really seem to give a damn. In an interview with Fox Detroit, the good judge had this to say of his “tastefully cropped,” semi-nude picture:
“Hot dog, yep that’s me. I’ve got no shame in my game. I ain’t talking to nobody else’s wife. You can almost get that here and now. I’ve sent that out to other women. There’s nothing nude about it. I’m in no more clothes than I’ll be at the Y this afternoon when I swim my mile.”
We’ve posted a photograph and a video clip of Judge McCree on the next page. Since many of you access this site at work, the picture has been redacted to remove any nudity — as redacted, it doesn’t show any body parts that you couldn’t see in a day at the beach, or in the pages of a Hollywood gossip magazine.
And now, for those of you who are willing, let’s move on to the photo of Judge McCree in nearly all his glory
In this economy, lawyers are being forced to roll up their sleeves and learn new tricks of the trade. Some have even taken up the practice of Door Law — they’ll take any case that walks through the door. Other lawyers have expanded their horizons to offer services that are wholly unrelated to the law. Desperate times call for truly desperate measures.
