"I'm at a law school trying to crawl through all of the work that we have to do, where has the time gone, this chapter's so long, feels like I'm up every night til two," begins Law School, the latest law-related viral video sensation. It's no F*** You, but the parody of Maroon 5 song Payphone by students from West Virginia University College of Law is still pretty good. Surely it's time some British law students had a crack at one of these?
Thanks to Matt Seys-Llewellyn for the tip.
"I have decided to start a new phase of my life. I do not plan to practice law," explains Garrett Waltzer, a California-based partner at international law firm Skadden, in a departure email leaked yesterday to US blog Above the Law. At which point the prose takes an unlikely turn.
"Instead, I have been blessed with the incredible good fortune of being married to TaQuita Thorns...Going forward, I plan to be a supportive husband and do all I can to help TaQuita achieve her mission to improve the world through music," continues Waltzer, who is in his early 50s and got together with Thorns after his ex-wife "fell in love with her personal trainer". The lovestruck corporate lawyer then proceeds to add a host of links to Thorns' website and YouTube performances. The full email is below...
This afternoon Guardian Law editor Ros Taylor marked the end of an era when she announced via Twitter that her job is to be "abolished" and Guardian Law to be run instead by a "semi-automated" feed...
News came through overnight on Twitter that rapper Busta Rhymes closed yesterday's American Association For Justice (AAJ) conference. And sure enough this morning on YouTube was a freshly-posted video of Rhymes – whose nickname 'Busted' is a tribute to his extensive experience of the judicial process – serenading lawyers at said event...
Donald Trump has launched a $5 million lawsuit against Bill Maher after the US comedian failed to honour his "offer" to pay Trump if the business mogul could prove that he wasn’t the "spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan"...
As Anne Hathaway was sending viewers to sleep with her acceptance speech at last night's Baftas, the actor's lawyer father, Gerald Hathaway, had other things on his mind...
One area of study that the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) is not believed to have considered is the learning of law through doctored clips of the 2004 film Downfall. A host of new legal education-themed spin-offs of the movie – which chronicles the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's reign of Nazi Germany in 1945 – have recently sprung up on YouTube, suggesting that Downfall-based law learning could be an area to watch in 2013...
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