Here is the first work on the three briefs from Jeremy's Oct 9 email. Everything below is a first draft, made so you can react to a real look and feel before we commit to the full run.
The weekly roundup, hosted by a Judge and a Counsel. Same Bones style stick figures, a banner, and a short dramatization for each story. This draft has the opener and the Kirkland story. The template is built to be re-run each Friday.
Kirkland passes $10 billion...then draws the curtain on the rankingsThe junior associate and the $10M questionQuality over quantity, says the firm with the most quantity
Done: opener, Kirkland segment (story 1 of 4).
Next: Pirro watchdog, cartel attorney sentence, Dave Grohl. Jeremy, the cartel attorney link was listed twice. We assumed the Grohl story was the fourth.
Brief 2 · Six-episode melodrama
The Top 5
The law school rankings told as a romantic melodrama. Each top school is a mascot character, and each episode covers one year of rank changes. This teaser covers the latest move, from Above the Law's own 2026 Top 50: Chicago rises to No. 1, Duke slips to No. 2, and Yale climbs.
No. 1 Chicago PhoenixNo. 2 Duke Blue DevilNo. 3 Virginia CavalierNo. 4 Penn QuakerNo. 5 Yale, Handsome Dan
The mascots are our own illustrations, not official school art. Before anything publishes, your legal reviewer should check them. Harvard is not in the 2026 Top 5, so it appears only if a past year puts it there.
Done: five mascot characters, teaser for the 2025 to 2026 change.
Next: series outline for all six episodes (2020-21 through 2025-26), each ending on a cliffhanger.
Brief 3 · Animated storyboard
How Not to Get Hired
A guide for summer associates, drawn as composite characters so no real associate is depicted. These four frames come straight from the stories in the brief.
The toddler impressionThe horse carriageThe firm that wasn't full of attorneysThe summer outing
