Congratulations to Counselor Steve Pirates for his winning entry:

“Counselor, duck and cover is not an appropriate jury instruction in a premise liability case.”

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LawSchoolBlogger.com reached the 50,000-hit mark today.

Just wanted to thank all of you for reading and for making LSB the most popular law school blog on the Web.

-Ricky

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The winner of the first-ever LSB Cartoon Caption Contest will be announced tomorrow.

To distract you from the suspense, may I suggest you hold yourself over with this LSB promotional video:

Or this brand new music video from the band I used to play cowbell in, Tally Hall:

(Watch for my father’s office around @ 2:08.)
 

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You’re all familiar with the New Yorker Caption Cartoon Contest, right? Well as of today, I’m shamelessly ripping it off and welcoming you to the first-ever LawSchoolBlogger.com Caption Cartoon Contest!

Here’s how it works: I provide you with a drawing of some law school scene or courtroom scene, and you think up a funny caption for it. Leave your caption as a comment. I will pick a winner with 48 hours and announce his/her name in an upcoming post.

What does the winner win?

Uh…resume fodder?

Our first drawing comes from Natalie O., and here it is:

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Last week in Negotiations we learned about “Power Tactics.” Power Tactics, according to my professor, are credible threats used to leverage power in the negotiations. The most obvious example is threatening to walk away from the negotiations table. The thing is, if you’re going to make the threat, you have to be willing to carry it out, because if you don’t, the other side will know you’re weak and take advantage of you.

Today I successfully used a power tactic. See, my digital camera has been broken for a while. (You might have noticed the lack of original pictures on LSB this past month.) The thing is, it’s been broken before, and I fixed it myself by banging it against the table…so I’m not sure just how broken it is.

I finally got around to taking it to the repair shop today. And the guy said I’d have to pay $80 up front and that if the repair would cost more, he’d let me know. I told him that I wouldn’t pay that much up front. He told me that it was standard. That it would take his technician two hours to examine the camera. So I said no thanks and walked away. Slowly. See…I was the only person in the store and I could tell this guy needed business. And sure enough, after I took a few steps, he called out “wait!”

And then he told me he’d take the camera and give me a free diagnosis.

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Every Sunday I get a chicken sandwich and dinner salad, to go, from Bennigan’s.

I’ve been doing it for about two years now. I always get fat-free honey mustard salad dressing on the salad…or so I thought.

See, there was somebody new behind the bar tonight. Well, she wasn’t new—I had seen her working as a server throughout the past few years—but she wasn’t the person I usually order from.

I gave her my order and told her that I wanted the fat-free honey mustard dressing and she said: “We don’t have fat-free honey mustard dressing. Well, we haven’t had that for like a year-and-a-half.”

“That can’t be right. I’ve been ordering it every week for two years now.”

“You might have been ordering it, but you weren’t eating it. The closest thing we have to fat-free honey mustard is low-fat Italian. You want that?”

Argh.

100 salads x 2 tbsp dressing/salad x 10 grams of fat/tbsp = 2,000 grams of fat I didn’t know I was eating and wouldn’t have eaten had I of known.

So you be the lawyer; what can I charge Bennigan’s with? And what defenses do you think Bennigan’s will have?

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Kicked butt in Negotiations yesterday. I feel guilty, almost. I partnered up with the guy I negotiated against last time, and before we began our negotiations with the other side, we agreed that I’d be the “good cop.”

Within 20 seconds of our negotiations, the girl on the other side said, “So you’re the good cop, eh?”

Here’s the situation: we owed the other side money. Somewhere between $1,900 and $3,400. So if we went to trial, we’d lose $1,900 at the least and $3,400 at the most.

We ended up settling for $1,902.

It was the lowest number in the class by far. During the wrap-up discussion with the professor, the girl on the other side called us “sleazebags,” but the professor told her that we were just doing our jobs.

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I’ve been studying at the Barnes & Noble next to DePaul for three years now. Most of the time, they play classical music and jazz…only now, they’re starting to play more and more techno, and they’re starting to play it really, really loud, and it’s starting to really piss me off.

Is the bookstore hoping to “make reading cool again?” Does techno music actually increase sales? Or does Barnes & Noble just want me study somewhere else?

IN OTHER NEWS,

Two posts ago, I wrote about a case that contained the line, “The plaintiff’s Jew is quite unlike the defendant’s.” That case, I will reveal to you now, was a copyright case. Somebody wrote a play called Abie’s Irish Rose about a Jewish and Irish family’s quarrels and then somebody else, the playwright claimed, turned it into a movie without his permission. The court ruled in favor of the defendant, citing significant differences between the works…specifically between the Jewish characters.

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Went to the Peninsula Hotel this afternoon to get some work done…drinking tea….trying to study Wills, Trusts, and Estates…and not getting any work done because 30 minutes after I sat down Chris Rock sat down with his manager at the table next to mine