The Big Apple: “What do you call a competition between lawyers?"/"A tourney at law.”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from June 03, 2022

“What do you call a competition between lawyers?"/"A tourney at law.”

"Attorney at law” shouldn’t be confused with “a tourney at law,” but there are puns.

“Who called it a single elimination legal competition and not a tourney at law?” was posted on Twitter by Lachesis’s Alt Account on May 13, 2015. “If lawyers battle in an arena rather than a courtroom, would it be ‘a tourney at law’?” was posted on Twitter by Andrew Arends on June 14, 2017. “What do you call a competition between lawyers? A tourney at law” was posted on Reddit—Dadjokes on January 5, 2022.

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Lachesis’s Alt Account
@HavocMantis
Who called it a single elimination legal competition and not a tourney at law?
9:56 AM · May 13, 2015·Twitter Web Client

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joogasama.eth
@joogasama
The Bar exam is a tourney at law
6:36 AM · Jun 4, 2016·Twitter Web Client

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Elle Sullivan 🐕🐘🐖🦕🦤🐠🦭🐑🦨🦎🐀🦫🦥🦜🐊🐍
@THISISDINOSAUR
Lawyer battle royal competition. I call it “A tourney at law”
9:33 AM · Feb 2, 2017·Twitter for iPhone

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Andrew Arends
@The_2nd_AA
If lawyers battle in an arena rather than a courtroom, would it be “a tourney at law”?
2:27 PM · Jun 14, 2017·Twitter Web Client

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Damienfox
@fluffyshadowfox
How did knights settle legal disputes?
With a tourney at law.
6:35 PM · May 20, 2019·Twitter for Android

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Jeff Brenneman
@brennemania
A competition where lawyers fight each other 1v1 in a single-elimination bracket until a champion is crowned
We will call it A Tourney at Law
1:48 PM · Apr 15, 2021·Twitter Web App

Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/BigBrotherBagels January 5, 2022
What do you call a competition between lawyers?
A tourney at law

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🍄🫒 olive (like the fruit)🫒🍄
@OliAnarchy
lawyers should joust for law school so there can be a tourney at law
9:25 PM · May 18, 2022·Twitter for Android

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Bob Francis
June 4, 2022 at 12:25 PM ·
What do you call a competition between lawyers? A tourney at law.

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