October 28th, 2003



The Top 9 Ways Lawyering
Will Be Different In the Year 3000


9> Supreme Courts in other solar systems are even scarier than our own.

8> “The Best Of Lawyer Jokes” now has more volumes than the California Penal Code.

7> Law school lasts only as long as it takes to implant the chip with the Black Letter Law and the obligatory feelings of helplessness and inadequacy law school inevitably engenders.

6> An angry spouse who claims her husband “is on Mars” may be speaking literally.

5> Due to advances in organ replacement, Scalia is celebrating year 1015 on the Supreme Court Bench.

4> The Top5 Law contributor list now consists of two androids, fiv

Klingons and a jar with Geoff’s brain in it.

3> The technology will be incredible, the support systems beyond belief, and yet, oddly enough, the side that can spend the most on attorneys will still win most of the time.

2> Holographic technology will enable you to actually work fo

three clients at a time, rather than just billing them.

and the Number 1 Way Lawyering Will Be Different In the Year
3000…

1> “Justice for all” finally amended to “Justice for all those with really huge Death Stars.”




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Credits:

Selected from 28 submissions from 5 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

BT Cesul, Troy, OH — 1 (12th #1!)
Nick Ortiz, Somerville, MA — 2
Mark Weiss, Austin, TX — 3
SH Armstrong, Surf City, CA — 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Topic
(Hat trick!)
Geoff Brown, Ann Arbor, MI — Top5 Law Chief Justice