A Mexican judge has been fired after attempting to dish out a highly unusual punishment to a juvenile graffiti artist: spray-painting the teenager's bare bottom with the same paint he used to tag public property, reports the Daily Telegraph.

A Canadian divorce lawyer, James Mahon, has truly captured the concept of divorce with a "his and hers" business card design.

A retired American judge has been admonished for ordering a lawyer, who settled a class action lawsuit, to accept payment of his $US125,000 ($141,000) fee in $US10 women's apparel coupons, reports The Washington Post.

Lawyers in the US have been outed for paying off writers to scribe their legal blog entries in a prcess that has been termed "ghostblogging".

A Princeton attorney who launched a website attacking his former Middlesex County law firm has had it shut down by a federal judge, but that may not be a wholly satisfactory result for the man's former firm.

There's more to a secretary than dictation and photocopying and as one lawyer now knows, it's worthwhile treating your secretary well - especially if they know your dirty little secrets.

The slow workflows in London's Magic Circle firms are seemingly getting too much for some associates, who are obviously having trouble making productive use of all their newfound free time.