October 28th, 2003
The Top 9 Ways Lawyering
Will Be Different In the Year 3000
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…
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