All that and more this week. Times are tough – imagine the legal implications for the guy hit with the numberplate pictured (Popehat). And on the subject of chasing money – charging for fees is no good if you can’t recover them; Baker & McKenzie is pushing that thankless task downhill…

US and City firm Baker & McKenzie is to instruct external law firms to recover any unpaid legal fees owed to it by clients. Fee-recovery work will be sent to Baker & McKenzie Global Services Manila (GSM), its offshore facility in the Philippines . Gazette

Some criminal law news. UK criminals are delighted – there’s a recruitment freeze at the CPS.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) may be forced to keep the door shut on its graduate training programme for the second year running after an organisation-wide recruitment freeze. The Lawyer

Hey, we’ve run out of jail space anyway, who needs prosecutors. And with ever more innovative ways of escaping jail it’s a wonder we bother in the first place.

Two Argentinean convicts who escaped from jail reportedly evaded capture by disguising themselves as sheep. Maximiliano Pereyra and Ariel Diaz dressed in full sheepskin fleeces with realistic looking heads as they tried to evade capture. Pereyra, 25, and Diaz, 28, who were jailed for robbery, escaped from a maximum security jail in Argentina, reports The Sun. Ananova

It does has more merit than just being let out. The next crime tale might sound like innuendo but it isn’t.

Tony Smith, a South Carolina man was arrested last night for striking another man in the face–with a four-foot python.  The Smoking Gun

This one, however, goes way beyond innuendo. Fans of Tiger Woods have come one step closer to being able to indulge in some Tiger fantasy but they had better be quick because the lawyers have been called in.

Lawyers for Tiger Woods are reportedly trying to halt the sale of a series of sex toys which exploit the golfer’s personal problems.

The toys include a ‘Take Home, Blow-up Tiger Love Doll’ and are for sale on the website of Pipedream Products. [P.S. We don't recommend visiting their site at work]

Pipedream is advertising its Tiger products as being “available for a very limited time only”.

The US gossip website TMZ.com has managed to obtain a copy of a lawyer’s letter to Pipedream. Ananova

And if that is not the sort of thing to cheer you up then maybe this will help.

Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project. Rubin started her career as a lawyer. She graduated from Yale Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court. She has offered US legal blog Above the Law some happiness advice aimed at a lawyerly audience. We’ve extracted some top tips:

Get enough sleep. We adjust to chronic sleep deprivation and don’t realize how much it weighs on us. According to one study, a bad night’s sleep was one of the top two factors that upset people’s daily moods at work

Get some exercise—preferably outside.

Manage pain and discomfort. Don’t let yourself get too hungry, too hot, or too cold.

Control the cubicle in your pocket. – Your mobile phone.

Take control of your physical environment. A messy office seems like a minor hurdle to happiness, but people are surprisingly affected by their physical environments.

More> for the full therapy

And if all that doesn’t help, then it’s probably time to start asking yourslf some fundamental questions.

To decide whatever makes you happy…