Suggesting that the judge was shorted on her Happy Meal may not have been a good career move.

From David Lat at Above the Law comes this little snippet about William P. Smith -- a partner at McDermott Will & Emery (Chicago), and the head of its bankruptcy department -- actually told Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Isacoff that she was "a few French Fries short of a Happy Meal."

Judge Isacoff's response was a show cause order.