Amal Clooney Crashes Her Law Firm's Website with Name Change

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While Amal was advising the country of Greece on how to get its Parthenon Marbles back from the United Kingdom, her law firm's website crashed due to an unprecedented amount of traffic. The reason for the clicks? Amal Alamuddin changed her name on the site to Amal Clooney. Big win for the person whose job it was to refresh the law firm's site every hour on the hour for the past few weeks. You can rest your eyes now.