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HOME    WELCOME TO  LAWHAHA    CLASSIC 3-PAK  (from the Harmless Error Vault)    THE LAW SCHOOL TRIP    WEIRD LEGAL NEWS    STRANGE JUDICIAL  OPINIONS    FUNNIEST LAW  SCHOOL MOMENTS    WHO IS SUZY SPIKES?    WORLD'S GREATEST  LAW REVIEW ARTICLE    UNIVERSE'S BEST  PRODUCT WARNING    LINKS    MCCLURG BIO   MONTHLY READER POLL New poll! We've all seen them: those supposedly “real” excerpts from trial and deposition transcripts like: “Q. Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods? A. No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.” Some of them have been circulating for 20 years. A visitor recently wrote to ask whether they are genuine and, if so, why they never include citation documentation. Good questions. What’s your opinion? I think they’re authentic. I think they’re mostly bogus. If they were real, they’d include documentation. I don’t care whether they’re real or fake because they’re still funny. I just wish people would quit clogging up my email inbox forwarding them to me.	The World's Greatest Law Review Article People sometimes ask how I got started writing legal humor. One afternoon in the summer of 1995, frustrated by the strictures of academic writing, I exited a footnote and dashed off The World's Greatest Law Review Article, a heavily-footnoted and somewhat bizarre parody of real law review articles. The American Bar Association Journal surprised me by agreeing to publish it. The World's Greatest Law Review Article apparently touched a nerve. Letters poured in from overwrought lawyers and law students expressing sentiments like, "Thank you for The World's Greatest Law Review Article. It is helping me through life." Even U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer — known for his disdain for footnotes — wrote to say he enjoyed it (after I sent it to him). The article has been spotted posted in law schools as far away as Hong Kong. One thing led to another and in September 1997, the American Bar Association Journal began publishing my monthly humor column — Harmless Error: A Truly Minority View on the Law — 550 words of ... unusual insight into law and society. So here's how it all started ...

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