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ParallelUniverseParking [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:00:51 PM
ET v. Wade?
 
Shostie [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:03:03 PM
Good. Now my class-action lawsuit against the Xgyyrgians of Rigel XI can proceed.
 
genner
2010-03-16 04:07:52 PM
i32.photobucket.com
 
StoPPeRmobile
2010-03-16 04:09:53 PM
Agrees.
pushpull.files.wordpress.com
 
Fabric_Man
2010-03-16 04:10:54 PM
Wait a minute! Do you mean to say my lawyer can't fire laser beams from his eyes?! He was charging extra for that!

/Dr. Manhattan pads his timesheet
 
tuffsnake
2010-03-16 04:13:13 PM
Fabric_Man: Wait a minute! Do you mean to say my lawyer can't fire laser beams from his eyes?! He was charging extra for that!

/Dr. Manhattan pads his timesheet

I'm chargin mah customers!
 
LeafyGreens
2010-03-16 04:14:57 PM
Plaintiff's firm? Check.

Personal injury? Oh yes.

Practice areas? Auto accidents, premise liability, worksite injuries, motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, and dog bites.

Classy!
 
kronicfeld [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:19:01 PM
LeafyGreens: premise liability

Is this the area of law that centers on the plausibility and factual basis of jokes, works of fiction, and arguments?
 
Aeonite [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:22:29 PM
Then again, consider that I still get email from people who think Ninja Burger is real.

http://mylifeisaverage.com/s/522880
 
PunkTiger
2010-03-16 04:22:51 PM
kronicfeld: LeafyGreens: premise liability

Is this the area of law that centers on the plausibility and factual basis of jokes, works of fiction, and arguments?

www.cardinalfang.net
Not amused.

/hot like pepperpots are hot
 
Dirtybird971
2010-03-16 04:26:24 PM
Why the Fark are Judges deciding what their succubus bretheren are allowed to use as advertisements? Wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? It would be like letting Burger King decide the fast food rules. But worse because you know going in BK would only worry about themselves....WAIT! Nope..no difference.
 
Nabb1 [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:31:12 PM
kronicfeld: LeafyGreens: premise liability

Is this the area of law that centers on the plausibility and factual basis of jokes, works of fiction, and arguments?

{snort} Well done.
 
BolshevikMuppet
2010-03-16 04:44:38 PM
Dirtybird971: Why the Fark are Judges deciding what their succubus bretheren are allowed to use as advertisements? Wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? It would be like letting Burger King decide the fast food rules. But worse because you know going in BK would only worry about themselves....WAIT! Nope..no difference.

Incubus brethren. Brethren would be Incubi. Succubi are female.

And, no. It'd be a conflict if the judge were affiliated with the firm but otherwise the judge is unbiased.

Besides, most of the rules attorneys follow are rules from the ABA or state bar associations. We police ourselves.
 
risc averse
2010-03-16 04:48:22 PM
BolshevikMuppet: Dirtybird971: Why the Fark are Judges deciding what their succubus bretheren are allowed to use as advertisements? Wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? It would be like letting Burger King decide the fast food rules. But worse because you know going in BK would only worry about themselves....WAIT! Nope..no difference.

Incubus brethren. Brethren would be Incubi. Succubi are female.

And, no. It'd be a conflict if the judge were affiliated with the firm but otherwise the judge is unbiased.

Besides, most of the rules attorneys follow are rules from the ABA or state bar associations. We police ourselves.

And you're doing a fine job....
 
exparrot
2010-03-16 04:48:25 PM
Who ARE the venusian 7? We have a right to know what kind of lawyers would represent aliens instead of their own human brethren!
The Geneva convention doesn't even apply to proto-cephalopods. If we can't get the information we need to by sprinkling salt on their tails, none of us, NONE OF US, are safe.
 
kronicfeld [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:50:08 PM
risc averse: And you're doing a fine job....

I'm sure what you know about regulation of the practice of law could fill the Grand Canyon.
 
Nabb1 [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 04:53:43 PM
risc averse: And you're doing a fine job....

If you can show me any profession that is nearly as self-regulated as the legal profession, please feel free to do so.
 
kronicfeld [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 05:02:02 PM
Nabb1: If you can show me any profession that is nearly as self-regulated as the legal profession, please feel free to do so.

Now now, I'm sure his pig-slop-shoveler's Local 404 polices itself with great diligence.
 
nm
2010-03-16 05:16:39 PM
Dirtybird971: Why the Fark are Judges deciding what their succubus bretheren are allowed to use as advertisements? Wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? It would be like letting Burger King decide the fast food rules. But worse because you know going in BK would only worry about themselves....WAIT! Nope..no difference.
Judges hate lawyer more than you do.
Go ahead, go to court and call the Judge a lawyer and see what happens.
 
risc averse
2010-03-16 05:22:55 PM
kronicfeld: Nabb1: If you can show me any profession that is nearly as self-regulated as the legal profession, please feel free to do so.

Now now, I'm sure his pig-slop-shoveler's Local 404 polices itself with great diligence.

Still a step up from being a lawyer.

/Practicing physician, BTW.
 
PunkRockLawyer
2010-03-16 05:24:46 PM
I'm a giant lawyer with superhuman speed who regularly defends space aliens, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.
 
Nabb1 [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 05:26:09 PM
risc averse: kronicfeld: Nabb1: If you can show me any profession that is nearly as self-regulated as the legal profession, please feel free to do so.

Now now, I'm sure his pig-slop-shoveler's Local 404 polices itself with great diligence.

Still a step up from being a lawyer.

/Practicing physician, BTW.

HA! I knew it. I wonder what the comparisons are between the rates of lawyer disbarments to physician license revocation from state to state are.
 
ProtoMeTheUs
2010-03-16 05:38:25 PM
HA! I knew it. I wonder what the comparisons are between the rates of lawyer disbarments to physician license revocation from state to state are.

Can't find concrete data, but a GIS of each term brings up;

1,160,000 results for physician license revoked
1,270,000 results for Lawyer disbarred
 
This text is now purple
2010-03-16 05:41:56 PM
BolshevikMuppet: Dirtybird971:
Besides, most of the rules attorneys follow are rules from the ABA or state bar associations. We police ourselves.

And about as successfully as the police are at that.

\1% of lawyers give the other 99% a good name.
 
MBooda
2010-03-16 06:08:24 PM
approves
rgcred.files.wordpress.com
 
kronicfeld [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 06:33:12 PM
Nabb1: HA! I knew it. I wonder what the comparisons are between the rates of lawyer disbarments to physician license revocation from state to state are.

Do physicians have to submit to and pass "character and fitness" evaluations before being licensed to practice medicine?
 
DrMcNinja
2010-03-16 06:53:08 PM
tuffsnake: Fabric_Man: Wait a minute! Do you mean to say my lawyer can't fire laser beams from his eyes?! He was charging extra for that!

/Dr. Manhattan pads his timesheet

I'm chargin mah customers!

Oh my god, this is farking hilarious. +10
 
LeafyGreens
2010-03-16 06:58:16 PM
kronicfeld: Nabb1: HA! I knew it. I wonder what the comparisons are between the rates of lawyer disbarments to physician license revocation from state to state are.

Do physicians have to submit to and pass "character and fitness" evaluations before being licensed to practice medicine?

No, it's pretty much a given that your character and fitness is fine if you entered a challenging profession.

/ducks and runs
 
volsung3
2010-03-16 07:15:44 PM
verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com
 
Redwing [TotalFark]
2010-03-16 10:15:28 PM
Nabb1: If you can show me any profession that is nearly as self-regulated as the legal profession, please feel free to do so.

a.abcnews.com
 
Gordon Bennett
2010-03-17 12:23:53 AM
Shostie: Good. Now my class-action lawsuit against the Xgyyrgians of Rigel XI can proceed.

I wish you the best with it. You do know that the Xgyyrgians usually grab the first attorneys to ooze out of the Rigellian lawyer pits before they've even sloughed off their first swamp skin.
 
Sylvia_Bandersnatch
2010-03-17 01:28:03 AM
Can't find the ad in question. Anyone?
 
lajimi [TotalFark]
2010-03-17 02:34:54 AM
Lawyers judging lawyers, nice. It's right up there with cops investigating cops.
 
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