Legal Satire Buff Prints

'We're making you a partner since you'd be easier to indict.'

Must you be so judgmental?

Trial by Media

'It's another corporate lawyer...do we want to buy a soul?'

Yawning barristers in court

"Permission To Treat Prosecutor as Hostile, Your Honor?"

"The ignorance of the lawyer is no excuse."

'You're the watchdog. Do you honestly expect us to believe you didn't see anything?'

'Your employee is either guilty of 'gross misconduct' or 'gross negligence'... you can't start disciplinary procedures on the basis that he is just 'plain gross'.'

'He started it!'

Antonin Scalia

"Honestly, I have no idea what a 'habeas corpus' is."

'It's all just an unfortunate misunderstanding, Your Honor, it was 'Talk Like a Pirate' day, and,,,,'

'That's the lawyer in me trying to get out.'

Judge about dancing lawyer: 'When you get to the second stanza of this song and dance, please approach the bench.'

The annual running of the lawyers.

"In mitigation, Sunny Chemicals would like to point out that prior to contracting his skin allergy, Mr Crumb was already ugly."

Cop Shop/Fake evidence/Plant now for spring.

'Cut out the hearsay and get back to work, Ms. Sims.'

'I bet this is going to be another round of criminal bashing, isn't it?'

"We calculated your age by how many hours you billed your clients, and you are at least 96."

"And here's good news for the defense. I am disqualifying myself on the grounds of blatant prejudice."

"Legally, I have the right to talk as slowly and boringly about all your options as I want."

"The legal people are terrified of litigation but I insisted that we write an apology to the client of the lack of service. . . as long as we don't sent it!"

'Littering, Your Honor.'

'I hope you don't mind. To save time and money, we've sworn in the firing squad as the jury.'

"I sentence you 500 hours of community service - You can start by mopping this floor."

'I seem to have brought the wrong brief case, your honor.'

'I'd say you have a water-tight case there, boys.'

'That's the last frivolous law suit I want to see any lawyer wearing in this court!'

"I get that quite a bit. Actually, I'm a lawyer."

Snowman about snowman fallen on ice: 'Obviously they would have had time to clear the ice.'

'I'm afraid that driving the getaway car is more than just a driving offence, Mr. Jones.'

'I wasn't expecting this when they said they wanted to settle out of court!!'

'... and in a startling development, 5 Supreme Court decisions were overturned by Judge Judy...'