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Legal Research and Writing

A crucial lawyering skill best taught at high altitudes, in the foggy mountains of East Asia, by an unremittingly cruel and forbidding sensei. The pupil should be forced to subsist only on a diet of insects and tree bark, must punch out memos until his or her fingers bleed, and must learn to live without sleep -- permanently. Whenever the pupil makes a mistake, he or she must be severely beaten with a Bluebook to the point of unconsciousness.

The training will culminate in a series of near-impossible tests, which may or may not involve the following: fighting rabid panda bears; swimming across a mighty river while carrying a boulder; interviewing pretend clients; retrieving a precious jewel from each of the 94 Federal judicial districts; dueling a demon to the death; and solving ancient riddles.
"Do NOT mess with that guy. He learned Legal Research and Writing from the legendary Chu-Han. I am so not even joking."
by Are Jonnson December 9, 2008
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Orphan lead

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Boston Legal marriage

A non-sexual marital arrangement between two heterosexual ("straight") men
Alan Shore and Denny Crane, characters on the ABC television series "Boston Legal," married each other in the series finale in what could only be called a "Boston Legal marriage."
by Qlark Qriffith December 18, 2008
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Legal Purgatory

This is when a project goes to legal for review and just sits there for an eternity.
My form letter has been in legal purgatory for a year now.
by Donna Marie Jendritza June 21, 2008
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Legal Shit

"Damn, this citys dry."
"Let's get some legal shit, then."
by JimmyBobWhogivesAShit January 24, 2012
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breaking lead

Expression referring to an instructor's frustration (literally: mechanical pencil lead breaking under excessive comment writing pressure) while marking a student paper which violates both instruction and Standard American English.
After having marked 42 essays that compared and contrasted two poems, nearly every one of them ignoring the pointed lesson of the previous class, by the 43rd I was breaking lead when the student wrote that the poets had "concocted imagery" and employed "religious illusions".
by Gemini Professor March 8, 2011
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legal alien

A person born into this world, but who truly is not of this world and walks the earth doing his time until the mother ship calls him home.
Mark is a legal alien as he, being a captain in the battle of the sexes, walks the world not believing the atrocities that men bring upon themselves and one another and wishing nothing more than to be brought back to the mother ship.
by Captain69 January 1, 2008
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