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A common theme in lawyer jokes is to present a lawyer or law firm, particularly in parody settings, with a gag name such as the commonly used "Dewey, Cheatem & Howe" [12] (a pun on the phrase "Do we cheat 'em? And how!" [13]). The gag name pokes fun at the perceived propensity of legal professionals to take advantage of their clients.
In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson's law. In others, the work or publications of the individual have led to the law being so named – as is the case with Moore's law. There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person ...
Law firms are a common element of fictional depictions of legal practice. [1] In legal drama, generally, they create opportunities to depict lawyers engaged in dramatic interactions that are reflective of the real-world drama of the profession. [2] The portrayal of law firms varies by the media in which they are presented, with law firms in ...
White-shoe firm. In the United States, white-shoe firm is a term used to describe prestigious professional services firms that have been traditionally associated with the upper-class elite who graduated from Ivy League colleges. (The term comes from white buckskin derby shoes (bucks), once the style among the men from the upper-class.)
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
A title card from the film Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937) showing an all persons fictitious disclaimer. An " all persons fictitious " disclaimer in a work of media states that the persons portrayed in it are not based on real people. This is done mostly on realistic films and television programs to reduce the possibility of legal action for ...
List of largest law firms by profits per partner; List of largest United States-based law firms; List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Europe-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Japan-based law firms by head count; List of largest China-based law ...
Fictional law firms (6 P) R. Fictional radio stations (26 P) Fictional restaurants (1 C, 26 P) S. Fictional shops (12 P) T. Fictional television stations ...