12 legal-themed cartoons from 2014
This was the first full year that the ABA Journal’s Caption Contest ran, since we began this project in September of 2013. We’ve been blown away by our reader’s inventiveness, creativity and affinity for puns. Thank you to the thousands of readers who have either submitted captions of their own, or voted for their favorite submissions in the monthly polls. Congratulations to all the winners! We look forward to seeing what our readers can come up with in 2015–and if you’d like to be featured in a round up like this next year, submit your best caption here for the January 2015 contest!
Appearing below are the voter-selected winning captions for each month’s contest. The cartoons for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September were drawn by Rina Piccolo. The cartoons for October, November and December were drawn by Jeff Dionise. For complete rules, follow this link. To view past cartoons, check out this gallery or follow the Cartoon Caption Contest RSS feed.
January 2014
“The man that attacked you, this Mr. Waldo, is he in the courtroom today? Can you please point to him?” —Alfredo W. Amoedo, San Francisco, California.
February 2014
“I knew I should have saved that last peremptory.” —submitted by Francis P. Gainer of Miami, Florida.
March 2014
“Whatever made you think ‘being married to the Law’ was just a figure of speech?” –submitted by Leslie J. Wilsher of New York City.
April 2014
“Wait! I told the judge that you weren’t a flight risk!” –submitted by Natalie C. Rougeux of New Braunfels, Texas.
May 2014
“I hear his winning appellate brief was 140 characters or less.” –submitted by Jeffrey P. Miller of Huntington, New York.
June 2014
“Mr. Spoon, let’s clarify for the Court, it is your testimony under oath, that before the accident, you did not see this fork in the road?” –submitted by Timothy C. Foley of Marina Bay in Quincy, Massachusetts.
July 2014
“What do you mean ‘professional courtesy’? He was just an associate.” –submitted by Harold Rubenstein of Highland Park, New Jersey.
August 2014
“OK, you wanted to do it the hard way, so here’s the warrant. Now, for the last time, where’s the ball?” –submitted by Eric Singer of Lisle, Illinois.
September 2014
And Steve realized his trusty list of “What Not to Wear to Court” was incomplete after all. –submitted by Alex Winston of Knoxville, Tennessee.
October 2014
“Objection overruled. I want to hear whether he gets his truck and dog back.” –submitted by Mickey Schmitt of Nashville, Tennessee.
November 2014
“You’d think our own daughter would call to tell us she’s trying her first case. But no-o-o, we get a text.” –submitted by Thomas G. Boyer of Waukesha, Wisconsin.
December 2014
“Now which one of you is the attorney?” –submitted by Robert C. Goodman Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia.
