Funniest Law Firm Names
posted by Daniel Solove
I recently heard the name of a law firm that struck me as incredibly funny, and so I immediately thought “blog post fodder.” I went searching for a few others. Here is a list of some of the funniest law firm names I found. All of these are real:
January 11, 2007 at 12:39 am
Posted in: Humor, Law Practice
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John Steele - January 11, 2007 at 1:58 am
The way I always heard it, the beauty of Low Ball & Lynch was that they did some insurance defense work. Another perfectly named firm, since renamed, was the slip-and-fall firm, Walkup & Downing.
Michael Risch - January 11, 2007 at 9:39 am
I have always liked the You Me law firm
aperiodeperiod - January 11, 2007 at 7:09 pm
The prominent New Jersey law firm currently known as Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione (or just Gibbons) was formerly known as: Crummy Del Deo Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione (or the Crummy firm).
Yikes.
anon - January 11, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Fitzpatrick, Lenz & Bubba. Near Allentown, PA. We always thought Bubba was the collections guy.
Carter - January 12, 2007 at 1:40 am
Ball & Weed
http://www.ballandweed.com/
Anon - January 12, 2007 at 9:15 am
Lowe, Price, Leblanc & Becker
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1781030_1
David Grogan - January 12, 2007 at 9:48 am
See Green v. Reed Constr., 91 So. 2d 634 (Fla. 1957) for the Miami law firm of Ruff & Ready.
Rick Goheen - January 12, 2007 at 12:32 pm
My favorite has always been the firm of Craig, Kelley and Faultless. (Personal injury, of course. They have a billboard on I-74 near their Batesville, Indiana office.)
Paul - January 12, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Argue & Phibbs, in Sligo, Ireland. Sadly they changed the name about 15 years ago.
HDP - January 12, 2007 at 5:06 pm
“Harness Dickey & Pierce” is cool because it’s a complete sentence… for some poor fellow named Dickey
Sean O'Hara - January 14, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Stammer, McKnight, Barnum & Bailey.
http://www.smbblaw.com
Ed - January 14, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Payne & Fears LLP (www.paynefears.com), headquartered in Irvine, CA with branch offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas.
Loya - January 14, 2007 at 10:36 pm
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, a/k/a “Old Beef, Mutton, Salad, and a side of fries.”
Eric Ruff - February 5, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I see someone post the lawfirm name “Ruff & Ready.” The “Ruff” was my grandfather, Wallace Ruff and the “Ready” was Thomas Ready. The law firm name was in the Sunday newspaper edition of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not twice in the Miami Herald. At the time my grandfather practiced, it was illegal for attorneys to advertise. As a result, fresh law school grads hanging out their shingles actively sought partners based upon their law names as a form of legal advertising. My grandfather named some other firmsl, but the only other name I remember was “Hunter & Lyon.”
Cheers.
Oliver - August 9, 2007 at 6:59 am
Saw your blog in The Lawyer (a UK legal profession paper) and thought I’d share with you that there’s a firm over here called “Wright Hassall”. Doesn’t suggest they are keen to embrace the Law Society’s drive to improve client service standards and approachability, does it?
J - December 27, 2007 at 9:32 am
My vote goes for Altheimer & Gray in Chicago.
Rosie - May 6, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I always thought Dickstein Shapiro was funny. Not as good as these, but I giggle like a 10 yr old boy when I hear ‘Dickstein.’
DB - October 22, 2008 at 7:14 am
Mine & Young, India
Gusty - December 8, 2009 at 9:36 am
Argue and Phibbs definitely does still exist. The firm’s on Teeling Street, Sligo.
susi kovach - May 20, 2011 at 11:59 am
lieghback & wackett
Lola - November 11, 2011 at 8:13 am
Sills Cummis & Gross, lol. They had fake money one year for a casino christmas party and when you fold the bill a certain way it said, Sills Cum is Gross. So crude yet so hysterical.
Barb Callahan - February 22, 2013 at 10:02 pm
I’m a paralegal and always chuckle when I drive past “Young & White LLP” on Frederick Street in Omaha, Nebraska 68124. It’d be nice to see it here!
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