illegalities:

makemealawyer:

This made me laugh so I guess I understand law school.

ahjareyn:

So…I’m dating a law student.

Hey Law Students! Follow illegalities!

I feel like MLP had some interesting statutory interpretation issues about what, exactly, is meant by the term “friendship is magic”.

Prima facie, this is a statement that true friendship doesn’t exist in our world and all we have is a farcical imitation using slight of hand and misdirection.  Unless we are to assume…

…I’ll stop now.

(via mtljz)

justanotherlawstudent:

lawdog798:

A lawyer who opposes the Justice Department’s proposed antitrust settlement with three publishers of e-books has filed an amicus brief (PDF) in the form of a comic strip. Bob Kohn tells Bloomberg and the New York Times Media Decoder blog that he opted for the unusual format after U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of Manhattan limited his brief to five pages. “I thought of the idea of using pictures which, as we know, paint a thousand words,” Kohn told Media Decoder. He calls the cartoon a “graphic novelette” and says it complies with court rules requiring 12-point or larger type and one-inch margins, Bloomberg says. The illustrator attends school with Kohn’s daughter, Katie, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in film studies at Harvard. The U.S. Justice Department filed suit in April against Apple and five publishers claiming a conspiracy…

this

Informative and amusing. What more can you ask for from a brief?

illegalities:

Hey Law Students! Follow illegalities!

Not just the US Legal System, either.