Good lawyers leave their mark on legal communities. Dragon Lawyers get asked to stop leaving their mark on each damned page of the complaint. In what has to be the best case for law schools to begin teaching a summer module on how to add watermarks to briefs, a Michigan based law firm decided to zhuzh up their legal writing with a picture.
See for yourself:
I always wondered what Spyro was up to once the games ran their course!
Everyone and their Dragon really has been getting a law degree. The judge didn’t just let Dragon Lawyers PC off with a tail wagging — the departure from complaint norms was addressed professionally in a court order. Which is great because it just makes everything funnier:
Not to be a stickler for minutiae, but the above does not appear to be a cartoon dragon. Cartoon dragons look more like this:
Whether the Dragon Lawyer’s image was a cartoon or not is less interesting than the brainstorming about how pleadings should look that followed:
Why stop there? Give the judges some! Why not require Harlan Crow’s family emblem next to any Clarence Thomas opinion? Far from deserving ridicule, Dragon Lawyers should be praised for being on the cutting edge of legal transparency. It only takes one look at their complaint to know whose side they’re on! And to make matters better, the firm has been consistent:
After the 7 year mark, you just gotta let some things fly. Not everything, though. The recent surge in interest has unearthed some unexpected interest in the firm’s site that may cause some legal trouble down the line.
I wonder if the suspension paperwork will have a dragon on it.
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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Good lawyers leave their mark on legal communities. Dragon Lawyers get asked to stop leaving their mark on each damned page of the complaint. In what has to be the best case for law schools to begin teaching a summer module on how to add watermarks to briefs, a Michigan based law firm decided to zhuzh up their legal writing with a picture.
See for yourself:
I always wondered what Spyro was up to once the games ran their course!
Everyone and their Dragon really has been getting a law degree. The judge didn’t just let Dragon Lawyers PC off with a tail wagging — the departure from complaint norms was addressed professionally in a court order. Which is great because it just makes everything funnier:
Not to be a stickler for minutiae, but the above does not appear to be a cartoon dragon. Cartoon dragons look more like this:
Whether the Dragon Lawyer’s image was a cartoon or not is less interesting than the brainstorming about how pleadings should look that followed:
Why stop there? Give the judges some! Why not require Harlan Crow’s family emblem next to any Clarence Thomas opinion? Far from deserving ridicule, Dragon Lawyers should be praised for being on the cutting edge of legal transparency. It only takes one look at their complaint to know whose side they’re on! And to make matters better, the firm has been consistent:
After the 7 year mark, you just gotta let some things fly. Not everything, though. The recent surge in interest has unearthed some unexpected interest in the firm’s site that may cause some legal trouble down the line.
I wonder if the suspension paperwork will have a dragon on it.
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
