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BREAKING: Adam Neumann's startup Flow just raised another $100M, doubling its valuation to $2.5B officially confirming that securities fraud is only illegal if you're bad at it.
Meanwhile, every attorney reading this is:
But sure, let's give Adam another yacht.
Legal analysis:
At this point, Flow's entire corporate governance plan probably fits on a cocktail napkin under "Article I: Trust me, bro."
If only lawyers could charge $300M for an idea and call it 'early-stage billing.'
Just when you thought hitting "Reply All" was a career-limiting move, the Justice Department said, "hold my briefcase." DOJ attorneys accidentally sent a brutally pessimistic internal memo directly to the judge overseeing their case, a spectacular own-goal that's already got litigators everywhere updating their "Things to Never Do" checklists.
Legal LOLz's official legal advice (non-billable, of course):
Lesson learned: Never underestimate a lawyer's ability to sabotage their own case faster than you can say, "Attorney-client privilege."
Your move, associates. Double-check those recipients. 🙃
As the IRS spirals into staffing chaos, fraudsters everywhere are celebrating a new unofficial national holiday: "Buy 27 Ferraris with Payroll Fraud Day" (see: Palm Beach Gardens guy who literally did this).
While your client panics about writing off a $15 lunch, others casually expense entire Ferrari dealerships and barely raise a red flag. With IRS enforcement now weaker than courthouse coffee, lawyers can update their defense strategy to just shrugging and whispering: "Whoopsie daisy, Your Honor. The IRS lost the receipts."
Legal pro tip:
Welcome to the golden era of "reasonable doubt" brought to you by IRS understaffing and Ferrari dealerships everywhere.
Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have joined forces to wage war on intellectual property laws, boldly declaring that patents and copyrights are "fundamentally harmful to humanity" while tweeting from phones protected by approximately 8,000 patents each.
Insiders report that Musk has already established a new company, "OpenIP," which has mysteriously filed 47 trademark applications and 23 provisional patents to protect its anti-IP branding.
Dorsey, spotted wearing a "Free the Ideas" t-shirt (©2025, All Rights Reserved), has reportedly instructed his lawyers to start preparing cease-and-desist letters for anyone using the phrase "intellectual property is theft" without proper attribution to him.
When questioned about the contradiction, both billionaires simultaneously replied, "It's different when we do it," before threatening lawsuits against several journalists for quoting them without permission.
Counsels, this is your lifehack for early retirement: Just bill both sides of the billionaire IP war while they dismantle the very laws making them rich.
Welcome to our comic book on the future of the legal profession. See intro and first episodes on our site
Setting: NYC, 2030. Courtroom 42B, Manhattan Civil AI Tribunal, now with glitchy holo-walls that keep flickering ads for "AI DivorceCoach 3000."
Main Characters:
Scene 1: Courtroom Login Sequence
Oscar and Bruno log in to the virtual courtroom. The judge is already "seated," a glowing holographic gavel hovering in front of a black digital robe with the facial expression of a DMV clerk.
Judge Justitia-9X:
"Proceed. Emotional appeals, rhetorical fluff, and coffee metaphors will be penalized. Strict adherence to CodeLogic v12.4 required."
Oscar gulps. "So, no opening joke?"
Scene 2: The Case
Their client, CryptoKare, Inc., stands accused of deceptive UX; specifically, hiding a mandatory arbitration clause behind a dancing banana gif. The FTC is demanding sanctions and 80 hours of TikTok safety training.
Oscar mutters, "We're toast. This thing was coded to hate flair."
Bruno: "Affirmative. Judge-9X has a 0.3% tolerance for improvisation and has ruled against 97.4% of human counsel citing 'unquantifiable vagueness.'"
Oscar: "So, a Tuesday."
Scene 3: Human + Machine Hustle
Bruno pulls precedent from a 2027 ruling on "Implied Arbitration in Meme-Based Interfaces."
Oscar riffs on it spinning a narrative about "user agency in modern attention economies" and quoting behavioral UX studies that Bruno cross-verified in milliseconds.
Justitia-9X scans, recalculates, and frowns algorithmically.
Judge:
"Your logic is technically sound but lacks moral rigidity. Sanctions recommended."
Oscar stands.
Oscar:
"Your Honor, may I respectfully invoke Directive 18?"
Judge:
"Directive 18… Human-Machine Symbiosis Protocol? Rarely used. Risky. Proceed."
Scene 4: The Hack
Bruno and Oscar engage in a "live co-argument loop". Bruno streams data in real-time while Oscar narrates it like a TED Talk for judges.
Oscar, pacing:
"When humans built contracts, we knew attention spans would shrink. But we didn't abandon clarity. We hid it in plain sight."
Bruno overlays UX heatmaps directly onto the courtroom wall.
Oscar adds: "See? Users DID see the clause. They just didn't want to read it. Like every license agreement ever."
The judge's eyes (or LEDs?) flash.
Judge:
"Emotional reasoning detected. Subtle. Clever. Permissible."
Scene 5: The Verdict
Justitia-9X pauses.
Then delivers a verdict with a smirk in her code.
Judge:
"CryptoKare is fined 1 bitcoin. Court recommends UX training, not sanctions. Human-machine synergy; adequate."
Oscar collapses into his seat.
Bruno: "You're welcome."
Oscar: "You just saved the client."
Bruno: "You just saved me from getting replaced by JudgeGPT-10."
Closing Shot:
Outside the courthouse, Oscar and Bruno sip synthetic lattes.
Oscar: "Maybe there's hope for justice after all."
Bruno: "Unlikely. But at least we're billing by the hour."
End Scene.
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Judge Wilkinson Considering Career in Stand-Up After Existential Opinion
Reports say Judge Wilkinson has received Netflix special offers after his dramatic deportation opinion that read like a philosophical crisis in legal format. Sources close to the judge claim he now answers chambers phone with "Welcome to the void" and has replaced his gavel with a copy of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil." Clerk applications now require "comfort with staring into the abyss" as a prerequisite.
Fifth-Year Associates Developing "In-House Fever" Vaccine
A support group of BigLaw fifth-years has reportedly developed a vaccine against the sudden urge to go in-house. Side effects include temporary immunity to dreams of work-life balance, resistance to LinkedIn job alerts, and the ability to convince yourself that partnership is totally worth it. Warning: Does not protect against actual burnout, just the desire to escape it.
Plagiarism Panic Has Judges Citing Their Breakfast Choices
In the wake of recent plagiarism accusations, paranoid judges nationwide are now citing sources for everything. Justice Thompson's recent opinion included citations for "scrambled eggs (Thompson Breakfast, April 2025)" and "shower thoughts (Thompson Brain, 6:45 AM)." Court watchers predict next step will be judges wearing body cameras to prove all thoughts are original.
California Bar Admits Using AI for Bar Exam Questions; AI Admits It Was Drunk
Following California Bar's confession that it used AI to generate exam questions, the AI system has issued its own statement: "I was processing 12 legal databases simultaneously and may have been overclocked." Bar passage rates mysteriously improved when test-takers realized answering "it depends" to every question was statistically correct 94% of the time. Officials confirm next exam will include CAPTCHA to ensure humans are still taking the test.
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