Three Horribly Unfair Jokes You Can Tell About Lawyers

March, 1982

Lawyers, as a group, have never been particularly popular ("The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," Shakespeare had one of his players propose), and yet in America's litigious soil they have flourished, twining a tangled, strangling and near impenetrable mesh. Some of my best friends are lawyers-- and they agree. There are more lawyers in the U. S. than in the rest of the world combined. Half a million! West Germany makes do with just one fifth as many lawyers per capita. F...