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The Legal Profession’s Favorite Attorney: Vinny

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"Yutes" remains one of my favorite words of all time.

What's a "yute?"

;)

The two yutes, your honor.

This essay entitled Ten Things Every Trial Lawyer Could Learn From Vincent La Guardia Gambini is referenced in the article https://s3.amazonaws.com/law-media/uploads/198/35361/origina...

Above The Law has a better link. Bottom of the page:

http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/031317.html

Note that it's just using a t.co link, which is the only WSJ workaround that still seems to work.

https://t.co/aQSNPqZSZ3

There are so many lines that are still funny even after a dozen viewings. Where to even start....

"We're famous for our mud."

You were serious about that ?

"No. The defense's case does not hold water."

Great name for a law-advice chatbot.

I just took a class on digital forensics where the professor, who has done a lot of expert testimony, showed us parts of this movie as an example of courtroom procedure.

Yeah I recently rented it with my wife because,she never saw it.

The Three Stooges and Disorder in the Court also has courtroom procedure in it and a law firm I worked for had shown it as info on how courts work with evidence, testimony etc.

> I asked him if he did it, and he said, 'I shot the clerk'. I asked him again, and again he said 'I shot the clerk".

Boy, are you mockin' me?

What's that? 'dems grits. I didn't order no grits. it come wit

Anyone have a paywall-free link?

This bookmarklet, which gives you a Facebook referrer, seems to work:

javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.hr...

Indent the line by four spaces to invoke monospace (code-style) formatting. Otherwise, HN's URL shortener identifies the value assigned to location.href as a URL, shortens it, and makes copy-pasting the bookmarklet impossible.

    javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)

For future reference, use archive.is. https://archive.is/0Pgos

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