Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Al Ellis of Dallas (Al is now at Howie & Sweeney, and he claims to be getting a regular paycheck), this two-fer he submitted first by phone, and later by this letter:

Dear Jerry:

If it weren't for the humor in this business, we would all be babbling (sic) idiots.

In the same trial in which the juror answered the question in my jury questionnaire as follows:

Q. Do you think jury awards are ___ too high, ___ about right, ___ too low?

A. Too low. $8 barely covers our parking and leaves very little on which to eat lunch.

We find the following medical report from one of our more prominent orthopedic surgeons in Dallas:

While asleep, Dr. _____ carefully explored the patient's prior graft donor site.

Obviously, this is either the greatest orthopedic surgeon in the world in that he can perform surgeries in his sleep or he may be one we all wish to avoid. Looking forward to seeing my name in print again, as I continue in my all-out efforts to provide fodder for the et cetera fire.

Full post as published by Say What! on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).