Lowering the Bar – Legal Humor. Seriously. By Kevin Underhill.

According to Courthouse News Service, the budget bill signed Thursday by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker contained a provision exonerating Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., who was convicted of witchcraft 329 years ago. Johnson was convicted during the notorious...

If, like me and the judge presiding over this case, you didn’t know the phrase “See you next Tuesday” may be considered very insulting when directed at a woman, now you do. (It involves the acronym for that phrase, kind of. You’ll figure it out.) And...

I haven’t done one of these in a while—almost three years, in fact. See “Good Reason to Kill #76a: Mystery Clown (or, Clown Mystery)” (Aug. 1, 2019). Instead of speculating about why, I’ll just say that until now, I had seen no cases in which a defendant...

It may violate the Rules of Professional Conduct to run a law practice from your jail cell, or so the Oklahoma Supreme Court has concluded.
Jay Silvernail’s license was probably already in jeopardy following his 2019 conviction for shooting a guy in a parking lot. He wasn’t practicing law at the time, but the court decided his “choice to deliberately bring a loaded firearm” to “what had...