London Underground Told To Cut Back Legal Expenses… So It's Suing A Restaurant Called The Underground
from the well-that-makes-sense dept
Via Annie Mole (actually via IanVisits), we find this fun juxtaposition of two recent stories about the London Underground. Apparently, the organization that runs the famed London subway system has massively increased its legal spending — tripling it in the last five years. This from an organization that is way over budget and being told to cut its spending. It seems like the legal fees could be a pretty good place to spot — especially when (on the same day, in the same newspaper) there’s a story about how lawyers for the London Underground are threatening a woman who opened “The Underground Restaurant,” which has nothing to do with the train system, but is a reference to the fact that it’s a home-based restaurant (something that’s become quite popular over the last decade).
Filed Under: legal expenses, london underground, trademark
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Comments on “London Underground Told To Cut Back Legal Expenses… So It's Suing A Restaurant Called The Underground”
Lawyers: cant live without them… actually we can. I say send them all to an island and let them sue each other to death
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Let’s get rid of all the lawyers, personnel officers, tired TV producers and phone sanitators!
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Sorry, that’s “phone sanitisers”.
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cant get rid of the phone sanitizers, we will all die from a nasty infection picked up from an unclean phone!
Maybe..
Maybe NYC should sue Subway.
Cut legal fees?
But… think of the children!
I just don't get it...
What are they doing suing them in the first place. Even if the Restaurant called itself “The London Underground”, used a subway train in the logo, and decorated the restaurant like a subway station, there is still no reason for them to sue.
How many people are going to go to the restaurant and ask when they can catch the next “A” train.
Seriously! Things like this is why people think lawyers are stupid a***oles!
The Law/Lawyers/Companies...
First of all, often times the law is a ‘funny’ place. It’s not about whats right or just. Its just the law.
Lawyers are a funny group. They often don’t think like we do. Often they don’t think at all. They just follow the law, endlessly trying to connect things together.
Companies/Governments employ lawyers….enough said.
Not a train...
— How many people are going to go to the restaurant and ask when they can catch the next “A” train. —
I think the next “B” Ark ship is what they are looking for.