Funny Lawyer Names

Victor

So why did Denning stick with Windows XP?

He wasn't too enthusiastic about that appalling Vista

Long Onion

He was renowned for not following the established vista;)

Reloc8

Oh god...that's actually brilliant.

I am a saddo.

Tom Young

Clearly he didn't like their now shrink wrap contract clauses!

Spurling (J.) Ltd. v. Bradshaw [1956] 1 W.L.R. 461, [1956] All E.R. 121 (C.A.)

"I agree that the more unreasonable a clause is, the greater the notice which must be given of it. Some clauses which I have seen would need to be printed in red ink on the face of the document with a red hand pointing to it before the notice could be held to be sufficient."

Tom Young

"He may protest to the machine, even swear at it; but it will remain unmoved."

---Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd [1971] 1 All ER 686

Clearly, this quote is a very valid reason why Denning MR or any other sane person would not move from XP. Course I sit here on a mac, PCs are so '90's.

Tom

Victor

https://www.google.ie/search?q=funny+law+firm+names&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Argue and Phibbs http://www.flickr.com/photos/magnumlady/2604252478/

Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

Robin Teevin & Co. (ficitious)

chops018

"That was such an appalling vista that every sensible person would say, "It cannot be right that these actions should go any further." -McIlkenny -v- Chief Constable of the West Midlands [1980] QB

jblack

This, more than any other case, made me cry with laughter when I was a law student.

I think the judge's ratio about jurisdictional issues due to Satan being the undisputed ruler of his realm is utter genius.

United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff, 54 F.R.D. 282 (1971)

Gerald Mayo filed a claim before the United States district court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in which he alleged that "Satan has on numerous occasions caused plaintiff misery and unwarranted threats, against the will of plaintiff, that Satan has placed deliberate obstacles in his path and has caused plaintiff's downfall " and had therefore "deprived him of his constitutional rights". Mayo filed this case as in forma pauperis - that is, he claimed that he would not be able to afford the costs associated with his lawsuit and that he should be exempted from paying them.

In its decision the Court referred to an earlier case against Satan where he was mentioned as a "foreign prince" The court noted that the jurisdictional situation was unclear. No previous cases had been brought by or against Satan and so no official precedent existed. The Court refused the request to proceed in forma pauperis on the ground that the plaintiff had not included instructions as to how the U.S. Marshal could serve process on Satan.

234

Classic extract from the judgment of Justice Scalia in PGA Tour v Martin:

If one assumes, however, that the PGA TOUR has some legal obligation to play classic, Platonic golf–and if one assumes the correctness of all the other wrong turns the Court has made to get to this point–then we Justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility. It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States, laid upon it by Congress in pursuance of the Federal Government’s power “[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,” U.S. Const., Art. I, §8, cl. 3, to decide What Is Golf. I am sure that the Framers of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf because it interfered with the practice of archery, fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government, the law and the links, would once again cross, and that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with that age-old jurisprudential question, for which their years of study in the law have so well prepared them: Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a “fundamental” aspect of golf.

nuac

I read some Plato in English, and fadó fadó in Greek.

Golf was not played in ancient Greece, so what in Hades is Platonic Golf?

RandolphEsq

I thought this was to be an off-topic thread? You nerds need to get with it.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0912/breaking46.html

The Czech Republic has announced a state of emergency, saying that at least 15 people are dead and 24 have been hospitalised after drinking cheap vodka and rum laced with methanol.

The toxic substance is used to stretch alcohol on the black market and guarantees high profits for its manufacturers.

Some of the victims have been blinded. Others have been induced into comas in the hope that doctors can save them.

Police have detained a 36-year-old man suspected of being the source of the tainted alcohol.

Prime minister Petr Necas has called on all Czechs to refrain from drinking "any alcohol whose origin is uncertain".

Scary to think that cheap vodka bought at a local kiosk in order to have a good time with some friends has lead to that. Seems odd that only one man could be responsible though.

Victor

RandolphEsq wrote: »

I thought this was to be an off-topic thread? You nerds need to get with it.

My friend's fiancée made the same accusation. She shut up when I noted she is a tax solicitor. :pac:

Procrastastudy

Okay I know there is a thread on this somewhere but I couldn't find it.

I honestly though Hugh J. Ward was a joke - clearly not...

L1011

Argue & Phibbs, being actually a real firm, albeit long since gone:

http://www.sligotown.net/argueandphibbs.shtml

DundalkDuffman

Doowee, Cheetham and Howe.

And from a recent TV show, Young and Knott Legal raised a smile!

YellowFeather

Gore & Grimes always cheers up my day.

An actual Irish firm that sounds like it should belong in CSI.

deandean

Lynch Law is my favourite.

http://www.lynchlaw.ie/

Indo404

Payne & Fears... your worst nightmare



Low, Ball & Lynch... can't get your lower than this



Weiner & Cox... touch me baby



Smart & Biggar... and getting bettar

And more here: http://www.oddee.com/item_96480.aspx

ResearchWill

A&L Goodbody http://www.algoodbody.ie/

ResearchWill

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Okay I know there is a thread on this somewhere but I couldn't find it.

I honestly though Hugh J. Ward was a joke - clearly not...

A friend of mine got a letter from them and it took ages before he realized it was not a joke.

StupidLikeAFox

Godloves Solicitors!

Grolschevik

I hope that, somewhere, there's a firm called Coles Law.

234

Divorce firm- Ditcher, Quick & Hyde.

Peregrinus

An urban legend says that the well-known Limerick firm of Holmes, O'Malley and Sexton at one time hat the telegraphic address "HolmOSex".

im invisible

Saul Goodman

murrayp4

Bob Loblaw

Newaglish

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Okay I know there is a thread on this somewhere but I couldn't find it.

I honestly though Hugh J. Ward was a joke - clearly not...

I don't get it... /stupid

ResearchWill

Newaglish wrote: »

I don't get it... /stupid

Huge award.as in lots of money given to a plaintiff, as in I got loads of money from the judge.

Procrastastudy

Newaglish wrote: »

I don't get it... /stupid

Are you from the North of this fine Ireland? I've just gone through my repertoire of Irish accents to work out which ones, out loud, this doesn't work in.

With a Co. Down accent it doesn't make any sense.

Jev/N

Max Justice ... no joke

http://www.parkerpoe.com/attorneys/max-e-justice/

breakfast on pluto

I thought lawyers didn't have a sense of humour?

Indo404

http://www.milflawfirm.com/cvsenglish.html

Indo404

http://www.bumstead.ca/ Nice logo

Victor

Newton and gravity - was it an Apple Tort?

nuac

L1011 wrote: »

Argue & Phibbs, being actually a real firm, albeit long since gone:

http://www.sligotown.net/argueandphibbs.shtml

Not that long. I think the name was in use up to about 40 years ago, and that the original A and Ph practise lives on under another name

Graces7

Dolittle and Dally in Kidderminster in the UK..Used to pass their office frequently and it always made me smile