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The Undisputed Illest Makes A Guest Appearance In Court. Hilarity Ensues.

Finally, a legal excuse to talk about someone Notorious besides RBG.

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The only other person who caught the reference.

Attention! The new “Lawyer Dog” just dropped. Using rap lyrics as evidence is a weird thing. It usually walks in that limbo space of “how do you do, fellow kids” and “begging to be fodder for an amazing intro to a track,” but sometimes it just slips and falls on a banana peel. This is one of those times.

There are times where, due to the need to maintain an environment of professionalism and class, one needs to find the nuanced ordering of words that informs a colleague that they are a proper idiot. Would you rather belittle John down the hall’s reading comprehension such that he has a chance of immediately understanding that he types affidavits like he exclusively uses his thumbs? Yes, but for fear of the free trip you’d earn to HR, you break out the old faithful “per my last email.” These moments require a sense of comedic flair, timing, and understatement that would inspire immediate respect were a British gentleman to catch wind of the sentence. “The Court is independently aware of that” is one of those great moments of workplace Ethering that I highly recommend you add to your petty Rolodex. While you’re doing that, you might as well familiarize yourself with the “incriminating” evidence:

And just in case you didn’t get the context: they in fact will not be looking for those firearms.

I Don’t Think People Understand How Silly It Is To Use Song Lyrics As Evidence [Earlier]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

 

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