33rd / 424th District Courts

You may recall my diatribe against the deprecating humor about lawyers. Just say 'no' to that but here is some genuine legal humor. It's billed as 'Notes from the (Legal) Underground -- A weblog that asks the question--Why are lawyers so stuffy?'

The author has some genuine humor starting as simply as his How to Read This Weblog in Eleven Simple Steps including such pity entries as

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2. Close your eyes for a moment and clear your mind. Forget that while you are spending time on this weblog, your favorite weblog authors might be posting on others. Rid yourself of any desire to look at other weblogs. Forget that other weblogs even exist.

3. Become resolved to the fact that this weblog contains virtually no pornography.

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6. If you want to forget about the whole category idea, you can read this weblog like a book of short essays organized into chapters. Some of the essays are comical, some aren’t. Here are some of the book-chapters-in-progress:

Types of Lawyers (my take on the question, “If I’m going to be a lawyer, what type of lawyer should I be?”--examples are The Lawyer Who Advertises on TV and The Lawyer Who Brings Her Breast Pump to the Office);

Advice (I answer letters from lawyers, judges, and others; though readers sometime think these letters are real, they aren’t);

War Stories (my personal stories from the trenches of the practice of law, only slightly exaggerated--examples are The Horror of One Lawyer's First Deposition and One Lawyer's Gambling Confession);

Have fun.

"JJ"