A lawyer and a duck walk into a bar.
The bartender says "What are you doing with that skunk?"
The lawyer says: "It's not a skunk, it's a duck"
The bartender replies: "I wasn't talking to you."

Hahahahaha. Get it? The lawyer is the skunk!!! One...

Bernie Madoff's sentencing was a splendid event, with all parties acting out their pre-ordained roles. The victims were appropriately bathed in pathos and bathos, the federal prosecutor's index finger was stiff for days from the pointing and jabbing, defense counsel listlessly begged for mercy, Madoff himself profusely apologized (too...

Bernie Madoff will be sentenced on June 29, 2009 by the Hon. Denny Chin, a judge notable for his legal probity as well as his general distaste for white collar crooks. In these difficult times, Madoff has become our ideal villain -- we hiss with hatred when he appears on...

In a rational world, one would have thought that today's top story on Drudge and AOL would have been the anti-semitic attack at the Holocaust Museum, and a mention of the fact that a black man, the security guard, died while defending Jews against a vicious bigot. It would...

Jerome Samuel Rosenberg spent 46 years in New York State prison. He had the dubious distinction of being the state's longest serving inmate, but more importantly, he was the greatest "jailhouse lawyer" who ever lived. He died Monday at age 72.

Many of those who knew him, or...

As the right wing nuts prepare their battle plan against Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court, one trenchant fact should be deployed in her defense: She has never, ever released any of my clients. That should mollify the right (and a good chunk of the center,...

When Dick Cheney was asked on "Face the Nation" whether he supported Colin Powell or Rush Limbaugh, after Powell opined that Rush is bad for the GOP and the country, Cheney made it clear whose side he was on: "If I had to choose in terms of being a...