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The First Thing We Do Kill All The Lawyer Blogs

210px-King_Henry_VI_from_NPG_(2)When Dick the Butcher declared in Shakespeare’s Henry VI “The first thing we do let’s kill all the lawyers,” he may have been prophetic. Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann has written on his blog that his unscientific survey shows that legal blogs tend to have a lifespan of less than a year.

We may have typos and trolls, but we are still here after roughly two years. That should count for something.

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121 thoughts on “The First Thing We Do Kill All The Lawyer Blogs”

  3. “Thank you all, but the credit for this blog’s popularity rests with the regular bloggers.”

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    Make no mistake, we are here through the largess of Professor Turley and his ability to conjure light from the heat in many of our discussions. It is worth remembering that while many may maintain the the structure’s magnificence, there is only one architect.

    No compliment – mere statement of fact.

  5. Maybe it’s the regulars outstanding taste in music that keeps ’em coming back. I hazard to say this may be the funkiest law blog out there.

  7. Thank you all, but the credit for this blog’s popularity rests with the regular bloggers. I never imagined that the blog would attract such interesting and articulate people. I suggest that we continue to offer mutual compliments to each other until the FCC pulls the plug.

  9. Humph! That was just a poll involving mere, commonplace legal blogs. Turley’s site is a Grade A Blog spelled with an A…Blawg.

  10. Congrats Prof. Turley, we are all indebted to you for your hard work and outspoken voice.

  11. Prof. Turley, congratulations on beating the statistics. And thanks for posting on such a broad range of issues.

  14. You need an amulet to counteract the evil-eye at the very top of the blog page. That ought to do the trick.

    (And likewise with others, thanks for your fun work!)

  15. NPO
    1, September 1, 2009 at 10:34 am
    I have learned so much from your blogs, and I just wanted to say thanks.

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    Ditto … and a sincere thank you

  16. Who would have ever thought someone who lives in Oklahoma knew how to read or write much less go to Law School. However, I found this link for the okbar.

    Link: http://www.okbar.org/public/judges/spspeech.pdf

    FYI: Ok, has some real rough bars. Where I am still afraid to go. Never play in Cartwright, OK. It is the OK version of the Badlands.

    Inasmuch here is the quote:

    “As we review Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 2, we find at this juncture in the story Jack Cade’s rebellion was picking up steam. Dick, the butcher, was a member of this rebellion. As Dick utters the famous words “first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” he was referring to ways that the rebellion might be successful. They recognized that to succeed, they must get rid of those who knew and enforced a system of laws. They did not want any learned and informed opposition to the rebellion they had planned against the government.

    This makes sense. If you are tempted to create anarchy through rebellion, the first objectives will be to get rid of legal process, individual rights, and the truth. The members of the rebellion realized it would be the lawyers that would stand up and identify how individual rights were being abused and due process was not being afforded. It was the lawyers who would recognize that rebellion sought to take away freedoms rather than grant them. This concept that the lawyers would recognize was later put in context by Daniel Webster who stated, “liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”

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    Damn, are we imploding?

  18. Dear dchipp:

    To paraphrase Shylock:

    I am a blogger. Hath not a blogger eyes? hath not a blogger hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same software, hurt with the same typos, subject to the same computer viruses, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a non-blogger is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a blogger wrong a quote, what is his humility? Correction. . . The mistake you teach me, I will correct, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

  20. Henry IV didn’t make the comment about killing the lawyers. Those were the words of Dick the Butcher, who wanted rid of
    the afflictions caused by the law.

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