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4 Reasons for Law Students to be Thankful This Thanksgiving

November 26, 2019 by Bitter Staff 3 Comments

Drinking, free food, and evil uncles. What more could you ask for over Thanksgiving?

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, law students, thankful, thanksgiving

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What If My Dog Attacks a Drone?

June 16, 2019 by Gregory D. Luce Leave a Comment

Answers to some of the more common practical legal questions about drones.

Filed Under: Ask a Futurist, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, futurists

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10 Funny Judicial Quotes

April 9, 2019 by Grey Bitter 15 Comments

Judges can be funny too. Here’s the proof.

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Features Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, Featured, judicial quotes

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Five Absurd Mugshots, Just In Time For Halloween

October 30, 2018 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

Ahhh, the sweet smell of schadenfreude. Let’s face it, we’ve probably all worn a stupid costume or two in our time, but yours probably wasn’t immortalized in a mugshot. (Yes, yes, fine, we did originally write this for Halloween, but c’mon – it’s funny all year around.) 1.This fairy may have wished those wings were real.…

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, halloween, mugshots, stupid is as stupid does

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Why Can’t I Wear My Halloween Costume to School?

October 30, 2018 by Gregory D. Luce 2 Comments

What’s an activist kindergartener to do if he can’t wear his Halloween costume to school?

Filed Under: Lawyer, Legal Crap My Kids Ask Me Tagged With: Featured, Student Rights

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10 Things Never To Say To Your Law School Prof

September 4, 2018 by Bitter Prof 3 Comments

1. Sorry, I got high/drunk/laid last night is not a valid excuse for missing class 2. “Because I got high/drunk/laid last night, I missed class. I can’t make it to any of your office hours, so could you come in on the weekend and tell me everything I missed in class?” 3. “My other grandmother…

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Bitter Rants, Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, nope, professors, profs

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9 Ways Law Review Will Ruin Your Life

October 27, 2017 by Robin Hitchcock 2 Comments

If you’re headed toward your 2L year, you’re probably freaking out right now about your journal invitations (or lack thereof). But before you accept a position on law review (or smack your head repeatedly into the wall because you didn’t make law review), heed my warning: law review will ruin your life.

Filed Under: Columns, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, law review

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Five Types of Law Partners

September 20, 2017 by Bitter Staff 17 Comments

The five kinds of terrible and awful law partners you meet in BigLaw firms.

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Lawyer Tagged With: biglaw, Bitter by Numbers, Featured, partners

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I’m a Lawyer, But Not Yours — So Don’t Ask

June 10, 2017 by Bitter Contributor 111 Comments

I will not do any of these things because you are not my client. And I am not your lawyer.

Filed Under: Featured Lawyer, Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: bitter rant, Featured, free legal advice, not your lawyer

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Someone Actually Did Take This Case: Pre-textual Firing Edition

January 29, 2015 by Bitter Lawyer Leave a Comment

We get it, we get it. Times are tough out there. Not so tough that you’d take the case of the parents who wanted to sue the parents of a kid that didn’t attend their son’s birthday party, but let’s face it: that’s a pretty low bar. So, regrettably, you might have to just suck…

Filed Under: Lawyer Tagged With: ada, Featured, nightmare, pre-textual

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