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Doug Moe: Did you hear the one about the lawyer? Capital Times (blog) One little-noticed bit of fallout from the ongoing financial crisis is the decline of lawyer jokes. "I don't think people are as worried about lawyers as they are bankers and financial people," Marc Galanter was saying this week. |
Forgotten Virtues: Integrity Patch.com Back then, as it is today, lawyers tended to be the butt of many jokes concerning dishonesty and lack of integrity. From Lincoln's own lips, he admitted that in his day there was a "popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. |
Lawyer fights race-related death sentences Fort Wayne Journal Gazette “Welcome to death row,” Swarns jokes outside her New York City office. Behind her desk, a Halloween picture of her 3-year-old daughter, Amina, whom Swarns adopted as an infant from Ethiopia, shares space with a 1970s picture of a Ku Klux Klansman in ... |
Italy's lawyers on war-footing against reform Reuters Italy's lawyers are treated with more respect than in the United States, where they are often seen as unprincipled money grabbers and are the butt of mocking jokes. But there is some impatience in Italy over their objections to reforms by Monti, ... |
 Philadelphia Inquirer (blog) | Witness: Murder, lover viewed as jokes Philadelphia Inquirer (blog) “She told me her lawyer could convince a jury that they were a joke,” Young testified. Defense attorney Jack McMahon dismissed Young's testimony, calling her a thief and a liar. The trial will continue tomorrow. For more details on Wednesday's ... |
In Anthrax Case Spinoff, It's the DOJ vs. Itself, With No Winners Main Justice It could also give rise to more lawyer jokes. As Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) once told a gathering of attorneys, “The trouble with lawyer jokes is that lawyers don't think they're funny, and non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.” |
Colbert Super PAC lawyer explains how campaign finance disclosure is and isn't ... Public Radio International PRI Instead, it's a source of jokes and, perhaps, a way to educate American voters on what Colbert and many others consider to be the downright ludicrous elements of America's campaign finance laws. None of that, though, would be possible without the help ... |
How financial planners can learn to live with lawyers Money Management Samantha Hills gives tips on how to find lawyers and work with them to achieve the best results. Sooner or later, in your financial advice or credit business, you will need the help of lawyers. Despite the litany of jokes about lawyers (not many of ... |
 USA TODAY | UK: Hacked phone call with FBI poses no risk USA TODAY LONDON (AP) – Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks ... Hackers intercept FBI, UK police call |
Andrew Wattscourting all stand up fans this weekend Malta Independent Online Oddly, lawyers are often funnier when they're not working than comics −- we tend to take ourselves a bit too seriously − although the most painfully un-funny thing in the world is a judge trying to make jokes. Because, of course, you have to pretend ... |
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