Attorney: Do you have an extra pen I can have?
Receptionist: Sure.
Attorney (writing with pen): Actually, I'm kind of suspicious of this pen. I'll just go get one of my own.
Hall of Justice Building
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Liz
Attorney: Do you have an extra pen I can have?
Receptionist: Sure.
Attorney (writing with pen): Actually, I'm kind of suspicious of this pen. I'll just go get one of my own.
Hall of Justice Building
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Liz
Attorney: An Interested Party is any board member who receives, or whose spouse or descendants receives, financial gain from the corporation.
Board member: So if my son works here, then I’m not an Interested Party.
Attorney: Your son is your descendant.
Board member: Are you sure?
1524 North Santa Fe Avenue
Vista, California
Lawyer on phone: Well, he doesn't need his dick to go to work, does he?
Huntington, New York
Overheard by: Lady Lawyer
Lawyer on phone: Well yes, he has a lot of problems… Most pressing of which is that his penis is malfunctioning.
Huntington, New York
Overheard by: Lady Lawyer
Male attorney to another: We're not going to circulate this externally, not yet. If we want to do that internally, that's fine–that can be just between us girls.
Bethesda, Maryland
Corporate suit: Hi, is my attorney here?
Young receptionist: No, sir, she's on maternity leave.
Corporate suit: Maternity leave? Did she have a baby?
Young receptionist: Yes, sir, she did.
Young receptionist to paralegal: Doesn't “maternity leave” mean you have a baby?
Law Office
Kansas City, Missouri
Attorney on cell: Okay, okay, you ran into her… Not with the car? Okay, okay…
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Paralegal to secretary: He just gave me the finger!
Secretary: What?
Lawyer: I did it creatively.
Secretary: I'm pretty sure that makes you the worst boss ever.
Lawyer: But she was annoying me!
Tall Building
Small City, Indiana
Overheard by: Does someone need a time out?
Lawyer #1: I have a buddy who wears a surgical mask when he flies.
Lawyer #2: That’s crazy.
Lawyer #1: No it’s not.
Lawyer #3: Wait. That’s not crazy, but I’m crazy for not shaking your hand after you put it down your pants?
Lawyer #1: My hand was outside my underwear!
Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC
Lawyer: We received the claimant’s demand for $300,000 for sexual
harassment. Whether it’s a reasonable demand or not…I wish someone would touch me inappropriately so I could sue.
8 Hanover Square
New York, NY
Overheard by: Pinsy
