# any good songs about lawyers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846 "2007-03-14T03:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/41 "2007-03-16T09:47:43Z")
[QUOTE=Campion] In many law schools, one gets on law review in one of two ways: by grading on or by writing on. They’ll take the top X students in the class, or everyone with a grade point average above a certain level. Those are the people who “grade on” to law review. The other way is through a writing competition; hence, “to write on to law review.” It can be a “closed” problem – no research permitted – or an open problem, which would be annoying. [/quote] Huh. I got on law review in my school by putting up my hand and saying, “I’d like to work on law review.” Bit more casual, I guess… > [@Campion](#): > > To bluebook (verb): to conform the citations in the brief to the standards set by the Bluebook. Used to be a time when I could abbreviate any case title, accurately arrange a string cite that included state, federal, and unpublished cases; pending statutes; treatises; internet articles; and interviews; and select the appropriate signal (“no, I think this one calls for a _cf_. signal”) without breaking a sweat (or cracking open the bluebook). You have to go into that sort of detail in cites in your briefs? wow. I usually just cite to the reporter series with the widest circulation that has the case, usually include the neutral cite, toss in a page number, and that’s it. > [@Campion](#): > > But then I became a lawyer, and over time, I stopped having to bluebook my own briefs. I had minions to do my bluebooking. And so my mad bluebooking skillz got way rusty. Ah - post law-school minions. Okay, I’m not so envious. Do articling students count as minions? we get them from time to time. Other than that, I’m still a bit short on minions. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/42 "2007-03-16T12:20:45Z")
Not a song about lawyers, but still it might fit: [“Know Your Rights”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/clash/know+your+rights_20031891.html) by **The Clash**. This post confuses me: > [@Grossbottom](#): > > Pro-tip: don’t leave anything you need lying around in the library where other competitors can get to it. What do you mean? I trust you are not advocating hiding volumes to win a legal writing competition? ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/43 "2007-03-16T12:29:50Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] What do you mean? I trust you are not advocating hiding volumes to win a legal writing competition? [/quote] No. I was advocating not leaving one’s computer/notes lying around where someone could hide or destroy them. I was an editor, and for every write-on there’s a sob story. If it’s a closed problem the sources are either probably all pre-printed in a packet, or easily available online anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/44 "2007-03-16T18:23:19Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] I learned it was written by Bruce Hornsby when Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs were on CMT Crossroads a few weeks back, and they sang End of the Innocence. I think Hornsby is a seriously underregarded songwriter, and was interested to learn that “End of the Innocence” was his. [/QUOTE] It is he playing piano on it, right? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/45 "2007-03-16T20:19:22Z")
I wonder if Colette, who performed at, and was banned from, the Moulin Rouge, had any lawyer songs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846.md?page=2)