Friday Fun: Thanksgiving and Law Fun
*NOTE: Fridays are for fun! Every Friday, we'll post something that is not as serious as other posts. Enjoy!
Duhaime's Law Fun Do lawyers and law students have a sense of humor? You bet! This site will give you the standard lawyer jokes, dumb things said in court, "outrageous" lawsuits du jour, and other fun stuff.
Weekend Reading: "The help of Harry Potter and other fiction in client representation, plus how Hollywood shapes client expectations and attorney behavior" This link points you to the idealawg blog with links to three interesting and humorous articles:
Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers and Merlin: Telling the Client's Story using the Characters and Paradigm of the Archetypal Hero's Journey by Ruth Anne Robbins at Rutgers School of Law - Camden. Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 4, p. 767, Fall 2006;
Fiction 101: A Primer for Lawyers on How to Use Fiction Writing Techniques to Write Persuasive Facts Sections by Robbins and Brian J. Foley. Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2, p. 459, Winter 2001; and
Dressed for Excess: How Hollywood Affects the Professional Behavior of Lawyers by Nancy B. Rapoport at University of Houston Law Center. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 14, p. 49, 2000