Willie Gary (a high-profile Florida attorney who is fighting a sexual battery civil suit).

Is getting incredibly creative with his legal defence;
a strategy aptly described by Legal Blog Watch :

The 56-year-old man from Wisconsin was arrested after shooting his lawn mower in his garden because it would not start.

The Midwesterner, named as Keith Walendowski was charged by police in Milwaukee with disorderly conduct and possession of a sawn-off shotgun.

Amazingly enough…

The Northern Echo reported: “A month after losing his leg in a road smash 18-year-old Dennis O’Brien evaded police in Cleveland and County Durham for three days in a stolen £35,000 BMW.” It was declared that “A one-legged car thief out-ran police in a 130 miles an hour chase”

“When cornered on a motorway slip road, he reversed at speed along an embankment and footpath. He was caught sitting in the passenger seat of the car with the engine running …

Good old USA; if George W Bush wasn’t enough to keep us entertained with his public gaffes here’s something else. They say life imitates art (if you can call Anchorman art).

Larry Mendte a former CBS3 Philadelphia news anchor, allegedly hacked into his former co-anchor Alycia Lane’s (both pictured) personal email accounts 537 times since January 2008 and leaked the contents of some of those emails to the press. He is now being charged with one felony count of …

Clive Wismayer, of Wismayers Solicitors, Great Bookham filed a High Court order to force a county court to list a hearing on a landlord-tenant case in protest at what he claims is the ‘appalling’ level of administrative failures at courts.

HM Courts Service (HMCS) has declined to comment on individual cases although it did confirm that there has been a decline in complaints in recent years. In 2007-08, 8,556 complaints were made about county courts, 18% down on the previous …

Giuliani appears to be alleging that his golf scholarship at Duke is a contract, in which the University has to provide four years’ tuition, room and board, not terminable at the will of Duke. As a consequence, Andrew will probably have to forego the lucrative PGA career that may have awaited him, and maybe go to law school instead. This is the full version of the complaint.

Andrew Giuliani is suing based on promises allegedly made by his former (deceased) …

Microsoft, the software giant, has told law firms across the globe that they must trim fees and scrap hourly-rate billing if they want to continue working for the company.

Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel, outlined the launch of a plan designed to slash Microsoft’s legal spend over the next 12 months.

A cable repairman from Bakersfield in the US had his cherry picker stolen from under him whilst fixing overhead lines.

Police said the Brighthouse Networks truck was pinched on Saturday while 50-year-old Curtis Bartell was elevated 25 feet in the air.

Whilst making his escape, the thief tore down several phone lines before crashing into a utility pole. Police confirmed that the lucky Mr Bartell did not suffer any major injuries.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has been hit by a $12m negligence claim after anti-virus software maker McAfee accused the US firm of overbilling, writes The Recorder. 

The claim relates to the trial of former McAfee chief financial officer Prabhat Goyal. McAfee is accusing WilmerHale of fraud, theft, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. 

The Bar Vocational Course is set to be renamed as the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) as stakes rise on access to the Bar.

On a darker note….. Our friends across the pond are preparing their partners for sinking revenues as they take stock of their financial progress at the half-year stage.

With US firms having their best year ever in 2007, the top 50 firms generating a collective revenue of $46.8bn (£23.4bn).

However now, With the sky falling in on over zealous mortgage folk, and the ever present end of the economic world predictions, 2008 seems a lot tougher. 

Oh dear, the top 40 City firm per equity partner profits dropped to £755,000 from last year’s figure of £817,000, but the firm did manage a small increase in turnover, with revenue lifting through the £80m mark.

Less for more; looks like the credit crunch is really biting.

A donkey is locked in a southern Mexico jail for committing assault and battery.

The jail normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances. The donkey was in for biting and kicking two men near a ranch in Chiapas state.

Officer Sinar Gomez said the donkey would remain behind bars until its owner agreed to pay the men’s medical bills.

Oil prices are going through the roof, so much so that even the wheels of justice have ground to a stop. A hearing that had been scheduled for Monday in a lawsuit over Texas’ presidential primary and caucus system was canceled by a federal judge who referred to high gasoline prices as one reason for his order.

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery noted in Friday’s order that the state of Texas and the state Democratic …

A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.

Sally Ann Gombocz, 51, pleaded guilty to theft by deception and corruption of a minor.

Gombocz had her son dress as a scout in 2003 and tell people he was raising money for a camping trip.

Charles Ray Fuller from Fort Worth, Texas was thinking big. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week having attempted to cash a $360 billion check. His aim was, he stated, to start a record business; watch out Richard Branson.

A Russian man was stabbed in the back after playing a variation of Russian roulette. The alleged attacker reported himself to the police.

The game involved drinking vodka, a fair bit one would assume, and dancing round a blindfolded man carrying a knife.

25. It is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.

24. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

23. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

22. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

21. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t …