Mourning the Passing of Geeklawyer

He was outrageous.  He was as offensive as anyone on the internet.  He was geeklawyer, a pseudonymous British barrister whose vulgar satirical view of the world reflected the incorrigible days of the blawgosphere, and later twitter. 

Via my dear pal  CharonQC comes the sad news of Geeklawyer’s passing. No, he didn’t die.  You see, he wasn’t real.  Geeklawyer was a fun persona that existed only to screw around with the prisses in the profession and online, the ones who would “harrumph” and “tsk” at the “undignified” behavior of the internet barbarians.  No one was more barbaric than GL, and no one enjoyed it more.

And now, the Grand Poobah of the British High Court of Royal Dignity has imposed the death penalty. 


Court News reports: “A barrister who called opposing lawyers ‘slimebags’ in a series of insulting tweets from court was today (Thurs) thrown out of the profession.  David Harris was wrongly acting for an internet piracy company he owned.


He bragged that ‘whoring and drinking’ would begin after he finished the trial and described an opposing lawyer as a ‘p***k.’….”


While someone may have outed him, and his real name is now readily available, I prefer to remain with Geeklawyer, the name by which I’ve known him for years, and the name that reflects the days before the blawgosphere was brought under control of the grocery clerks, who couldn’t bear the thought of people being outrageous and dismissing their laundry list of rules.

Charon’s post amply covers the stupidity of this, as does  GL’s explanation of why the collateral issue of the internet “piracy” claim is nonsense.  Please read them.

As for me, I mourn the internet that Geeklawyer represents, one where a lawyer could have some fun, write outrageous truths and lampoon the foibles of a profession, and not have to fear the prigs’ attack. 

We’re now deluged by the flawgers, the prissy, the insipid blowing kisses at one another in the hope that some crumb will fall on their plate, making lawyers appear as puny and pathetic as people believe them to be.  But there was a time when the internet, the blawgosphere, twitter, was bold enough to have someone like Geeklawyer ripping the balls off sacred cows at every chance.

Now they’ve killed him because they couldn’t bear the thought that he was right. 

The man behind Geeklawyer is very much alive, though very much disbarred.  My guess is that David Harris will find a way to make them regret this travesty, as he’s never lacked for guts or spirit.  At the same time, the vitality of the blawgosphere will never be the same.

So go out there today and write a post about how you’re a really special lawyer and clients should retain you right away.  There’s no Geeklawyer to scream that your baby is ugly.  Happy now?

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