{"id":478,"date":"2006-08-10T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/10\/more-lawyer-jokes\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T11:56:02","slug":"more-lawyer-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/10\/more-lawyer-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"More Lawyer Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, OK, it&#8217;s really another of those stories about a <a href=\"http:\/\/allanjenkins.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2006\/08\/judge_pendleton.html\">cut-up judge<\/a>, who, in this case, issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtminutes.maricopa.gov\/docs\/Civil\/072006\/m2304854.pdf\">an order<\/a> compelling Defendant&#8217;s counsel to accept the Plaintiff&#8217;s counsel&#8217;s lunch invitation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are a number of fine restaurants within easy driving distance of both counsel&#8217;s<br \/>\noffices, e.g., Christopher&#8217;s, Vincent&#8217;s, Morton&#8217;s, Donovan&#8217;s, Bistro 24 at the Ritz-Carlton, The<br \/>\nArizona Biltmore Grill, Sam&#8217;s Caf\u00c3\u00a9 (Biltmore location), Alexi&#8217;s, Sophie&#8217;s and, if either counsel<br \/>\nhas a membership, the Phoenix Country Club and the University Club. Counsel may select their<br \/>\nown venue or, if unable to agree, shall select from this list in order. The time will be noon<br \/>\nduring a normal business day. The lunch must be conducted and concluded not later than August<br \/>\n18, 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(There&#8217;s a footnote to the last sentence adding &#8220;The Court is aware of the penchant of Plaintiff&#8217;s counsel to take extended cruises during the summer months.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I never quite know what to think about these stories. On the one hand, it must be kind of fun, as a judge, to write this sort of decision. On the other hand, you have to listen to highly educated lawyers behaving like idiots long enough to <strong>want<\/strong> to write this sort of decision. It&#8217;s a tough call.<\/p>\n<p>(Via a mailing list.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, OK, it&#8217;s really another of those stories about a cut-up judge, who, in this case, issued an order compelling Defendant&#8217;s counsel to accept the Plaintiff&#8217;s counsel&#8217;s lunch invitation: There are a number of fine restaurants within easy driving distance of both counsel&#8217;s offices, e.g., Christopher&#8217;s, Vincent&#8217;s, Morton&#8217;s, Donovan&#8217;s, Bistro 24 at the Ritz-Carlton, The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/10\/more-lawyer-jokes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Lawyer Jokes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}