A sleepless Prince

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By Alex Wade on

Google’s algorithms throw up an interesting comment on (some) lawyers’ lives

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Ever keen to sift the net for legal news, here at Legal Cheek only a few minutes can go by without one of us entering the words “law news” into a search engine (OK, Google).

We did this just a minute ago and found this story. Yes, that Prince apparently worked 154 hours without sleep before his untimely death is ranked second by Google in today’s entries for “law news.”

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Where’s the law in this news? And before anyone says we’re being foolish, that there are plenty of mentions of Prince’s brother-in-law in the story and that’s why it’s there, just hang on a minute.

Is it possible that Google’s algorithms have decided that some lawyers — associate and trainees at magic circle firms, for example — habitually work six days without sleep?

Previously:

Prince hated contract law so much he once changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol [Legal Cheek]