Bizspeak 101

 
Thanks to the Under the Radar blog, here is a very useful guide (which includes some off-color language) to corporate-speak, including such classics as: “Open the Kimono”, “Agree to Disagree”, “It Is What It Is” and “Ping”.
It’s not only lawyers who endanger the English language!
 

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Friday humor for lawyers

 

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, 
 
“Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” 
 
The man consulted his portable GPS [...]

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Testing the limits of FMLA leave

A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled last week that the Family and Medical Leave Act does not provide protection to an employee who took a seven-week trip to the Philippines to participate in a faith healing event with her husband. 
Maria Tayag worked as clerk at Lahey Hospital.  Her husband had a number of serious chronic [...]

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Creative Motion Practice

Reading this motion – To compel defense counsel to wear shoes without holes at trial – has got me thinking about all sorts of other motions that I’ve overlooked in the past.  To wit:

Motion to require counsel to use mouthwash;
Motion to prohibit counsel from wearing that hideous tie (you know which one I mean);
Motion to [...]

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