It’s not unknown for bloggers to take opportunity of April 1 to do something humorous, and this year is no exception. Mashable provides their list of the best April’s Fools day pranks. You might need some web translation tools to decipher this post on Slaw, and Shaunna Mireau gives her roundup of funny posts. But in my opinion, the best April Fools blawg posts come courtesy of the Legal Post. I actually fell for the first one I read:

• Seven Sister firms merge to create Canadian giant
• Law Society announces new equity surcharge
• Ontario court rules law firms must pay overtime to associates retroactively

Update

I take that back. The all-time best April Fool’s Day prank for 2010 goes to Erik Turkewitz, who claimed that the White House had picked him up as a blogger,

Since word is already dribbling out among my friends, I thought I should let you know here: I’m closing down this blog in the next few weeks to start up a new one at the White House as their official law blogger. I’ll have the opportunity to both expand the scope of my writing and serve my country at the same time. As blogging gigs go, it doesn’t get any better than that.

What’s great about this one is that several credible media and legal sources picked it up and presented it as authentic, including Above the Law, Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy, and even the New York Times.

Some people without a sense of humour are complaining about ethical violations.  Admit it, you got punked.