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“Access to Justice” movement, – African-Americans: appreciation of “anti-
Accidentally on Purpose, Negro” jokes, n; as characters in
lawyer jokes, , , ; exclusion
accident faking. See injuries, feigned from legal profession, ; jokes about
accidents: alcohol offered after, ; omitted in republished book, ,
Copeland reference; race relations
ambulance chasing and, , , – revealed through jokes, –; stereo-
; as bait for lawyers, , –; bus typic presentations in jokes, , n;
accident, ; feigned injuries and, , switching and, , , n,
; intentional hit and run, ; n. See also race
materialism of lawyers after, ; plane
crashes, –; train wrecks, , , age, ; rivalry between junior and senior
– lawyers, , , –
accordions, law as abused instrument, aggression. See combativeness; hostility
alcohol: Baptist minister and, ; car
accountants, , , , n accidents and, , ; drunken
Adams, John Quincy, – lawyers, ; law as a commodity similar
adapted jokes, . See also switching to, ; miniature lawyer consumes,
Ade, George, ; rumseller sued for damages,
Adelman, Ken, –; switching from anti-drink
advertising, –, , –, n, jokes, –n; vodka to throw
away,
–n Aleichem, Sholem (Sholem Rabinowitz),
advice: from clergy, –; to clergy,
–; creating conflict with, ; Allies of the Devil jokes: demonization of
fees for, , , –; as useless lawyers and, ; described, ; religion
information, – abandoned by lawyers in favor of gain,
advocacy: as the devil’s work, , , . See also devils; hell
–; loyalty to clients, , –,
; lying and, –n; substantive alligators,
justice vs., ; truthseeking vs., alternative dispute resolution (ADR),
–
Index
ambulance chasing: accident faking audience: doctors as carriers of lawyer
tied to, ; campaign against, ; jokes, ; for ethnic jokes, ,
Jewish connection to, ; open season nn–; function of jokes and, ;
on lawyers, –; term defined, law schools as forums for jokes, , ,
– , ; lawyers as joke audience, ,
–; for racist jokes, n
ambulance jokes,
anal jokes, – Auerbach, Jerold,
An American Dilemma, – Australia, , –, –
Anderson, Jack,
Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, , Bachman, Walt, n
bailiffs,
, –n balloonists, –, –
anecdotes, , , n bank robberies, ,
animals: alligators, ; apes, ; attack bankruptcy, –
bastards,
lawyers, , ; bears, nn–, Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, –
n, n; birds of prey, ; bears, nn–, n, n
bulls, ; catfish, ; cats, , ; beggars,
cougars, ; cows, , , –, The Beggar’s Opera,
; crocodiles, ; dogs, –, –, Begin, Menachem,
, , , ; ducks, –, –, Belli, Melvin,
; elephants, –; endangered Ben-Gurion, David,
species, ; foxes, , ; goats, ; Bergstrom, Randolph,
gorillas, ; laboratory rats, –; Best, Joel,
maggots, ; pigs, , –n; Betrayers of Trust jokes: context for
rabbits, ; rats, –, , –;
roosters, ; scorn jokes and compari- emergence of, –; described, ;
son to, –; sharks, –, , ; families betrayed by lawyers, ;
sheep, –, –; snakes, –, Jewish jokes switched to, –, ;
, , , , n; tigers, ; partners or peers betrayed, , –,
vultures, , ; prostitution comparisons and the
anthropologists, betrayal of justice, ; resourcefulness
anti-lawyerism, –, n, n, and, –; sexploitation and, –;
n; historical perspectives, , , solicitude, betrayal disguised as, ;
; violence toward lawyers, , . switching of, –, –; trust
relationships in, . See also trust
See also Death Wish jokes Bierce, Ambrose, ,
apes, bigamy,
appeals: as costly, , –, ; heaven billable hours, illustrations about, ,
as final court of appeal, ; winners birds of prey, illustrations depicting
demand, –, – lawyers as,
Archer, Bill, n “Blessings of Britain,”
architects, –, blindness: blind golfers, ; blind rabbit
arms: feigned injury and, ; lost in and blind snake, ; justice without
accident, ; prosthetic arms, blindfold,
arson, , , blondes, ,
“artificial” law, , blood sucking,
artists, – Bloomfield, Maxwell,
Asimow, Michael,
associates. See junior lawyers
Atiyah, Patrick,
Index
bluffing, , , – charity, lack of, –; betrayal disguised
Blumberg, Abraham, as charity, ; self-interest and charity,
Boccaccio, Giovanni, –, –
Bogart, William,
bombast, – Chaucer, Geoffrey,
Bouwsma, William, A Cheap Beating,
Brandes, Stanley, “check in the coffin” jokes, ; make
Brezhnev, Leonid,
bribes, , amends (debt repaid) version, , ;
brothers: banker and lawyer brothers, respectful gesture version, –, ;
take it with you version, –,
–; brother betrayed, ; doctor Chicago Lawyers Study, , n,
and lawyer brothers, –n, nn–, n
Buchwald, Art, –, n children: baby eaten by gorilla, ;
Buckley, William F., n bastards, ; child support, ;
Burger, Warren, , , , , destined to be lawyers, –, , –
burials. See funerals , ; father’s occupation as source
Burrows, John Henry, n of shame, ; illustration depicting
Burton, Harold H., n litigious child, ; as joke protagonists,
bus accidents, –, , –, , , ; parents
Bush, George H. W., sued by, ; rescue lawyer,
businessmen: as clients, ; MBAs, ; Chinese restaurant,
secretary outsmarts boss, ; switching chiropractors,
from business jokes, Choate, Joseph H., , –, , n
butchers, Choate, Rufus, , n
Butler, Nicholas Murray, cigars, , ,
civil litigation,
Cade, Jack (fictional character), , Civil Litigation Research Project,
Califano, Joseph (Democratic ex-cabinet civil rights movement,
clairvoyants,
secretary), Class Action,
Campos, Paul, clergy: advice from, –; as antagonists
Canada, n, n. See also United of lawyers, –, , –; Baptist
minister and alcohol, ; “check in the
Kingdom coffin,” –; as clients, –; in
capital punishment, – heaven, –; illustrations depicting,
car accidents. See accidents , , ; kills lawyer with truck
Carter, Jimmy, , , n, n door, ; lawyer neighbor charges for
cartoons. See visual jokes and advice, –; minister and sharks, ;
illustrations railroad men seek entrance to heaven,
Casey, Gregory, n ; as target of jokes, –, . See also
castaways,
categories of jokes, – professional triad (the Triple Plea)
catfish, clients: betrayal of, –; celebrate
cats, ,
Caxton, William, n death of lawyer, ; coaching of, –,
celebrities, , , –; as conniving, –,
cement, –; as contentious, –;
censorship, , , n corporate clients, ; as dispensable,
certainty, legal, – ; empowered by lawyers, –;
chaos or destruction, –, –, encouraged to commit crimes, ;
encouraged to feign injury, ; guilty
Index
clients (continued ) for lawyer jokes, –. See also historical
clients abetted by lawyers, –, , contexts; popular culture
, , nn–, n; illustra- contingency fees, –, , n
tions depicting, , , , , , conversion jokes: dying man becomes
, , , , ; as litigious, lawyer, ; religious, –, , n
–; loyalty to, –, , , Corleone, Don (fictional character),
n; “more than justice” expected corporate lawyers, –, –, –,
by, –; outsmart lawyers, –; –, , , n, nn–
perspective in jokes, ; persuaded of cougars,
innocence by lawyer, –; poison cows, , –,
lawyer in joke, n; rich clients, Cramton, Roger,
lawyers’ subservience to, , –, ; Crevecoeur, H. St. John,
ruined by legal fees, ; satisfaction criminals: burglar superior to lawyer as
with lawyer’s services, , ; as husband, ; “criminal lawyer” word
victims, –, ; as yokels (See play, –; guilty clients abetted by
lawyers, –, , , nn–,
yokels) n; hanging lawyers in lieu of
Clinton, Bill, criminals, , ; lawyers lower than,
clusters of jokes, – , . See also thieves
coal merchants, n crocodiles,
coats-of-arms, , Cromwell, William Nelson, n
Cochrane, Johnny, , – crutches,
Coleridge, John Duke, st Baron of, , Cubans,
Curran, John Philpott,
n Curtis, Charles P., ,
combativeness: conflict instigated by
damages, , ,
lawyers, –; illustrations depicting, dancing girls, –,
, ; insufficient combativeness as Darrow, Clarence, n
professional failing, –; lawyer Dauer, Edward (“lawyer as friend” critic),
offers to refute God’s arguments, ;
metaphorical fixation on, ; as trait of
lawyers, –; of women lawyers, Davies, Christie,
–. See also hostility Davis, Eddie, –
comedy and professional comedians, – Davy, William (Serjeant Davy), n,
Communism, , , . See also Soviet
n
and communist East-European jokes Dead Lawyers and Other Pleasant
confidentiality, , –, , , ,
Conflict jokes: described, ; lawyers as Thoughts,
death: “check in the coffin” stories,
“hired guns” or mercenaries, –,
, n; metaphors of adversarial –; confessions before, –;
combat, ; self-interest of lawyers and Doctor’s diagnosis, ; dying man
instigation of conflict, – becomes lawyer, ; farmer requests
contests in jokes: hiring contests, –, lawyers to attend his death, ; last
nn–; at Pearly Gates, ; requests, , –, ; “Lawyer’s
smartest dog, –; “two plus two” Last Circuit,” ; response to
stories, – impending death, ; wills and
contexts: American legal culture, –; property, –. See also funerals;
for betrayal of trust jokes, –; heaven; hell
demographic changes, –, ; “death of law,”
“litigation explosion,” ; social contexts
Index
death penalty, – diminishment, , –
Death Wish jokes: “concrete complaints” Discourse jokes: bombast and fakery in,
explanation for, –; contexts for –; described, ; eloquence and
origins of, –, , –; persuasion, –; fees and the
described, ; excess of lawyers and, complexity of legal discourse, , ;
–, –; function of, –; jargon, , ; language as tool of
history of, –; “legalization” of lawyers, ; language corrupted by
society and, –; Objects of Scorn lawyers, , –; legal language as
jokes and, ; removal of lawyers empty, –; switching and, . See
and, –; Shakespeare quote, ;
switching and, –; uselessness of also lying
lawyers and, ; What to Do with a Disraeli, Benjamin, n
Dead Lawyer, divorces: client in love with lawyer, ;
debts: “check in the coffin,” , ; fees for, , ; in heaven, ; increase
education loan repaid, ; fee equals in, ; lawyers urge settlement,
recovered debt, ; Lincoln pays client’s –
debt, ; receipt required for final doctors: animosity toward lawyers, ,
judgment, –; repaying of, –; as carriers of lawyer jokes, ;
“check in the coffin,” –, ;
The Defenders, ,
definition jokes, , , concede diagnosis of injury to lawyers,
; diagnosis of death, , –;
demographics: increase in number of fees for advice, ; in heaven, –;
lawyers, –; Jewish lawyers, , illustrations depicting, , , ,
nn–; of legal profession, –, ; jokes shared with lawyers, , ,
, ; of U.S., . See also excess of , , , n; lawyers compared
or contrasted with, , –, ;
lawyers lawyers fear of retribution from, –
Demography jokes: age and, –; ; lying jokes and, ; malpractice
litigation, ; professional rivalry and
changes in legal profession and, –; animosity toward lawyers, –, ,
described, ; firms as setting for, – ; as witnesses, , , –
; generic nature of lawyer jokes, ; documents, as tools to be “sharpened,”
dogs, –, , , , ,
race or ethnic identity of protagonists Donahue, Thomas J.,
in, –; women lawyers, – Dooley, Martin (fictional character),
Denby, David (movie critic), –
Denmark, Dornstein, Ken,
destruction, lawyers as destructive, –, “double discharge” jokes, –
–, Dow, Lorenzo,
devils: Allies of the Devil jokes, , , Drinker, Henry S.,
; bargains with, ; illustrations
depicting, , , , , ; lawyers dropouts (expired jokes): “check in the
as, –, –, –, –n. coffin” variation, ; conniving
claimant jokes, , ; corporate law
See also hell as subject, ; Death Wish jokes,
The Devil’s Advocate (book and film), , –; defined and described, –;
fee related, –; heroic lawyers in,
– –; justice jokes, , –, ;
Dewey, Thomas, listed in registry of jokes, –; social
Dickens, Charles,
Dick the Butcher (fictional character), , and economic changes related to,
“difference” riddles, , , , ,
n
Index
dropouts (continued ) engineers, –, , –,
–, n; subservience to rich Englishmen, as ethnic type in jokes, ,
clients in,
–
ducks, –, –, epitaphs, ,
Dundes, Alan, , , Epstein, Cynthia,
Dunne, Finley Peter, equality, legal, , n
duplicity, –; coats-of arms with ethics, legal: advocacy vs. truthseeking,
symbols of, , ; justice and, ; –; jokes correlated with ethical
lawyer argues wrong side, ; Sir Bull- abuses, n; Kutak Commission, ;
face Double-fee plays both sides, . loyalty to clients and, , n;
See also Betrayers of Trust jokes; lying obligation to types of clients, n;
poll on honesty and ethical standards
Economic Predator jokes: betrayal and, of lawyers, ; tolerance for unethical
–; conflict as in the economic behavior,
interest of lawyers, –; described, ethnic jokes: audience for, ,
; justice jokes and, –; within nn–; Chinese as plague, ;
legal profession, ; piracy and, –; Davies on “untold” jokes, ; ethnicity
“professional courtesy” jokes as, –; of lawyers in jokes, , –; naive
professions known for economic preda- ethnics, –; political correctness
tion, , ; respect of fellow predators and, , , n; switching and,
as theme, –; sexploitation theme , , , , –, , (See
in, –; switching and, . See also also specific ethnic groups)
fees Evarts, William M., , , n
evidence: concealed by lawyers, n;
economics: costs of legal representation, fabrication of, ; illustrations about,
–; economic contexts for legal ; missing body in murder case, ;
culture in U.S., –; gross national receipts as, , –; of switching of
product, nn–, nn–; law jokes,
as economic sector, –, , , Ewick, Patricia, n
n, n; perceived “social costs” excess of lawyers: American perceptions
of lawyers, –, , n, n; of, , –, ; cultural ascen-
unequal ability to invoke the law, dancy, ; demographic data and,
–, n. See also Economic –; historical perceptions of, n;
Predator jokes illustrations about, , , , ;
laboratory rats jokes and, ; %
“Eighty Uses for Dead Lawyers,” figure, –, n, nn–,
elephants, – n; sperm compared to lawyers,
eloquence, –
enemas, –, – Exon, James, –
Enemies of Justice jokes: appeals demanded
Facetiae of the Mensa Philosophica,
for just decisions, –, –; cor- fake victims. See injuries, feigned
porate law jokes and, –; decline in family: anti-family jokes, –; Betrayal
justice jokes, –; described, ;
expired jokes, –, –; “how of Trust jokes and, , ; indifference
much can you afford?” jokes, , – to, , , –, , ; legal
, ; lawyers as enemies of justice, occupation as source of shame to,
–; legal system as obstacle to The Farce of the Worthy Master, Pierre
justice in, , –, –, ; Pathelin, the Lawyer,
replaced by Object of Scorn and Death
Wish jokes, . See also justice
Index
farmers or ranchers: as clients, ; death firing squads,
attended by lawyers, ; Johnny The Firm, ,
Cochrane and three-kicks law, –; firms. See law firms, relationships within
on law and religion, ; as naive and fortune tellers,
confused, ; outsmart lawyers, –; foxes, ,
ruined by legal fees, ; travelers spend Franklin, Benjamin, ,
night in barn, fraud: client fraud and loyalty, ; law as,
fathers: as client of lawyer son, ; fired . See also injuries, feigned
from firm, ; occupation as source of Fried, Charles (“lawyer as friend” concept),
shame,
feces: anal sex and birth of lawyers, ; Friedman, Lawrence,
cats bury lawyers, ; elephants, frivolous claims and defenses, –;
–; enemas, –, –; reaction
of lawyer unable to sue himself, ; efforts to avoid, –; liability shifted
taste of lawyer worse than, to victims, –, , ; Lincoln’s
opposition to, ; as the norm, .
fees: for advice, , , –; billable See also injuries, feigned
hours, , –, , , , ; clients Fukuyama, Francis, n
ruined by legal fees, , ; consume function of jokes, , , –,
entire proceeds, –, –; contin- funerals: “check in the coffin” stories,
gency fees, –, , n; for –; clients at lawyer’s funeral,
divorces, , ; evaded by client with ; clients billed for flowers at their
lawyer’s ruse, , –; for evading funerals, ; deep burial of lawyers, ;
justice, ; hourly billing, –, ; epitaphs, , ; no need to bury
illustrations depicting, , , , ; lawyers, ; as reward for child who
income of lawyers, n; “innocent rescues lawyer, ; subscription to
until proven broke,” ; installment bury lawyer,
payments, –; Jewish lawyers and,
; justice as commodity, –, , game laws, –, –
–, –, –; “justice tariff,” Gandhi, Mohandas K., n
–; maximum fees as professional garbage collectors,
obligation, –; “milking” the Gay, John,
clients, ; minimum fee schedules, ; genies, , , –
as motivation for lawyers, –; pock- Gergen, David,
Germany, ,
ets, lawyer’s hands in client’s pockets, Getty, J. Paul, –
–; for services to clergy, –; Sir Gigot, Paul, –
Gladstone, William, n
Bullface Double-fee plays both sides, goats,
; social exchanges and, –; survey God as character in jokes, , , –,
on, ; thinking as billable, . See also
–,
Economic Predator jokes The Godfather,
Felstiner, William, gold diggers,
films: censorship of, n; devotion to Goldstein, Tom,
golf, , , ,
clients as motif in, –; lawyers as good news/bad news jokes,
characters in, –, , –, , , Gordon, Richard,
n, n, n; negative Gore, Al,
portrayals in, –, n gorillas,
Final Exit for Lawyers,
Finch, Atticus (fictional character), –,
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government workers, – much law” critique of justice system,
Grant, Ulysses S., –; United States, post-revolutionary
Great Britain: anti-lawyerism in, –; attitudes toward lawyers,
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., –
jokes originating in, –; legal homophones, –, , , n
culture in, –; nature of jokes in, homosexuality,
, , , – honesty, ; advocacy vs. truthseeking,
Grisham, John, –, –, n –; corporate law and, ; poll
Gulf War, , on ethical standards and, ; poll on
Gypsies, truthfulness, ; as professional failing,
–, , n; scarcity of honest
Hale, Matthew, lawyers, –. See also lying; truth
Halpert, Herbert, hostages, –
HALT, –n hostility: anti-lawyerism, , , –,
Hamlin, Hannibal, – n, n; discourse jokes and,
Hand, Learned, – ; revealed through jokes, , , ,
Handelsman, J. B., , –; shift from racist to lawyer jokes,
hanging, , , ; illustration , ; violence in popular culture,
–
depicting hanging of lawyers, “How much justice can you afford?”, ,
Harlan, John Marshall, –,
Haunch, Paunch and Jowl, hunting, –; game laws, –, –;
Hazard, Geoffrey, open season on lawyers, –;
Hazlitt, W. Carew, smartest hunting dog,
heart attacks, husbands (spouses), switches from, ,
heaven, , , –; as fitting reward,
Hussain, Saddam,
–; St. Ives as patron saint of
lawyers, –; St. Peter and the Pearly indeterminacy, –
Gates, ; scarcity of lawyers in, , India, , , , –, , , n,
–, , –, ; suit between
hell and, –, n
Heinz, John, , n, –n, Indians (Native Americans), –
nn–, n indifference: to client’s interest, ; to
hell: abundance of lawyers in, ; as
court of last resort, ; as destination family, , , –, , ; to
of lawyers, –, , , ; family law, –; to social obligations, –,
sent to hell, ; improved by engineers, ; to welfare of others, –,
–; suit between heaven and, –, –
; tour of, . See also devils inequality, unequal ability to invoke the
heroes: lawyers as champions of the law, –, n
weak, –, ; popular culture and inhumanity of lawyers, lawyers as
portrayals of lawyers as heroic, –, , subhuman, –, , –
n, n injuries, feigned: discovered through
Hertzon, Robert, , clever cross examination, ;
The High Priests of American Politics, illustrations depicting, ; Jewish
“hired guns,” –, , n car accident, ; lawyer’s diagnosis vs.
historical contexts: attitudes toward doctor’s diagnosis, ; lawyer’s
lawyers, –; medieval attitudes toward encouragement of, ; malingering
lawyers, –, , ; “public justice” and, ; miraculous cures, –
critique of justice system, –; “too
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insanity, caused by lawyer’s inability to sue ; comedians and, –; defined and
himself, described, –; drop-outs, –; as
easily forgotten, ; evolution of, ,
insanity defense, – ; as folklore, ; functions of, ,
insurance: arson and, , ; for cigars, , –, –; as individual
rather than corporate product, ; as
; fire insurance, , –; flood institution, ; jokographies, ,
insurance, –; life insurance, –; language as barrier to, n;
–; uninsured liability, lawyer jokes, defined and described, ;
Irish characters in jokes, , , –, oral tradition and, ; origins of, , ,
, , –, , , –, –; persistence
Ives, E. W., of, ; punchlines, , , n;
recording of, –; registry of, –;
jargon, , , representitiveness of sample, , ;
jaundiced view of legal system, , , social landscape revealed through, –
, –; tracing changes through
–, n time, ; transmission of, –, –,
Jefferson, Thomas, n , n, n; versions of, . See
Jerrold, Douglas, also audience; switching; specific joke
Jesus, clusters; specific topics
Jewish jokes: about litigiousness, , jokographies, , –
Jones, William,
–; analyzed by R. Raskin, , Jonson, Ben,
n, n; arson stereotype in,
, , n; Jews as audience for, judges: as applying law, not justice,
, , nn–, n; omitted –; bribes and, , ; God as
in republished book, , Copeland judge, –, –; hostility to
reference; switched to lawyers, , lawyers, ; illustrations depicting,
–, –, , , –, n , , ; replacement of dead judges,
Jewish lawyers: accused of unethical –
practices, ; conflicting images of,
; demographics, , nn–; junior lawyers: exploitation by senior
discrimination against, in elite law partners, , –; hierarchy in firms
practice, ; exclusion from law and, , –; overcommitment to
practice, –; jokes about, –; justice, –; turn tables on seniors,
lack of prestige, n –, , –; unethical behavior,
Jews: accident faking associated with, ,
–; clannish outsider stereotype,
; in conniving claimant jokes, , Jurassic Park, n
, –; medieval stereotypes of, juries: illustrations depicting, ; in Indian
, , n; perceived as litigious,
, , n; Talmudic reasoning, jokes, ; intimidation of, –;
–, –, –, n; as users outsmart lawyers, –; as school of
of legal system, n. See also Jewish cheating, ; selection of, , –;
jokes; Jewish lawyers tolerance of lawyers’ tactics, n
Johnson, Lyndon B., justice: access to, –, –; “applying
joke books, , , , –, –; law” vs. “doing justice,” –; vs.
lawyer’s collection of, ; switching and, Chief Justice, ; as commodity, ,
. See also specific titles , , –, –, –, ;
jokes: in advertising or promotion, ,
–n; boom in lawyer jokes, , , guilty clients abetted by lawyers,
, , , ; censorship and, , –, , , nn–, n;
illustrations depicting, , , ;
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justice (continued ) –; tension between partners and
individual interest in conflict with, junior lawyers, . See also partners
–; as joke subject, ; law law schools: as education in lying, n;
distinct from, ; legal system as as forum for jokes, , , ; in jokes,
arcane or obstacle to justice, , –, , , –n
–, ; natural justice, , ; “The Lawsuit,”
obstruction of justice, ; prostitution lawyer jokes: acquire prominence, ;
comparisons and the betrayal of justice, defined and described, ; illustrations
; spheres of justice and injustice about, , ; indigenous jokes vs.
increasing, –; truth unrelated to, switched jokes, ; vs. jokes about
; unequal ability to invoke the law, lawyers, ; meta jokes, ; number in
–, –, n circulation, ; told by lawyers, ,
–
Kagan, Robert, “lawyer’s creed,”
Karsten, Peter, “Lawyer’s Last Circuit,”
Kennedy, Florynce (critic of legal
The Lawyer Winding Up His Accounts,
profession),
Kermartin, Ives de. See St. Ives (Yves de
Lee, Harper,
Kermartin, patron saint of lawyers) Leff, Arthur (“lawyer as friend” critic),
Knott, Blanche, ,
Kuipers, Giselinde,
Kutak Commission, legal culture: defined, ; life and relation-
L.A. Law, , ships as “legalized,” –, –;
laboratory rats, –, ; illustrations nostalgia for Golden Age, ; popular
culture as expression of, , ;
depicting lawyers as, revealed through joke corpus, –;
Lamm, Richard, , n shift of emphasis in, ; symbolic
Lande, John, nature of the law, , –; in United
Landon, Donald, n, n Kingdom, –, n
Landon, Melville D. (Eli Perkins), – legalization of life, as impetus for jokes, ,
language: corrupted by lawyers, , –; –
jargon, , ; metaphors of adversarial legal profession: African-Americans
combat, ; politics and legal excluded from, ; collegiality as
discourse, –; as tool of lawyers, ideal of, ; criminal law as sector of,
; translation of legal meta-language as n; demography of, –, , ;
lawyer’s role, n. See also Discourse discrimination in, , –; hierar-
jokes; word play chy in legal profession, , , –;
Laumann, Edward O., , n, ideals of, , ; Jew excluded from,
–n, nn–, n –; litigators, ; lying as pro-
Lauterbach, Edward, fessional expertise, , , –,
Law and Order, n; “professional courtesy” jokes,
law firms, relationships within: age of –, ; professional identity of
partners, , –; associate as lawyers, , ; “screwing” as defining
speechwriter, –; economic behavior of, –; specialization and,
predation and, ; father fired from . See also ethics, legal
firm, ; Jewish partner’s name, ;
large firms and corporate law, –; legal reforms, –, –n
paralegals, ; rivalry and, , ,
legends: St. Ives (Yves de Kermartin,
patron saint of lawyers), –, ,
, ; % of world’s lawyers,
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–, –, n, nn–, Mafia jokes, ,
n Magee, Steven,
Legman, Gershon, , maggots,
Letters of an American Farmer, malingering,
Lewis, Paul, on violence in popular Mansfield, William Murray, st Earl of,
culture, marital infidelity, –, –, , –
Lieberman, Jethro, , Marshall, Louis, , –n
light bulb riddles, ,
Lilburne, John, Mason, Perry (television character),
Lincoln, Abraham, , , , – n, n
literature, lawyers as characters in, –,
–, , , –, , , , Matlock, Ben (fictional character), n
n, n Matthews, Brander,
litigation: as adversarial combat, ; as Maule, William H.,
attack on managers and professionals, Maxwell, Robert, ,
; civil litigation, increase in, ;
expenses, –; lawyers as cause of, media: email transmission of jokes,
–; lawyers identity tied to, ; n; portrayals of lawyers in, –, ,
malpractice litigation, ; U.S. as , ; recording and transmission of
litigious culture, , –. See also jokes, –. See also specific medium
litigation explosion
litigation explosion: jokes as response mediation and conciliation, –
to perception of, ; lawyers blamed medieval attitudes toward lawyers, –,
for, , –; media reports and
perceptions of, –, n; as ,
political issue, , –; resentment
of lawyers tied to, –; as self- mercenaries, lawyers as “hired guns,”
fulfilling prophecy, . See also –, , n
frivolous claims and defenses
Lloyd George, David, – Merry, Sally Engel, n, n
Louis XII, King of France, Meta-Jokes, , ; cartoon about lawyer
Lourdes, –
“lower than x” jokes, –, –, jokes,
loyalty: to clients, –, . See also Mikes, George, n
duplicity Miller, Mark,
Luban, David, n Mindes, Marvin, –
Luntz, Frank,
Luther, Martin, n ministers. See clergy
lying: advocacy and, –n; for
clients, ethics and, ; deathbed miracles: Lourdes and feigned injuries,
confessions to lies, –; as the devil’s –; as unwelcome, ,
work, ; doctors and, ; homophone
jokes, –, , , n; as profes- Mitchell, Lawrence, n
sional expertise, , , –, n; money: “check in the coffin,” –;
as talent, –; in “two sides” jokes,
collection to bury lawyers, ;
Macaulay, Stewart, counterfeit money, –; extra $
MacIntyre, Alisdair (philosopher), bill, , ; income of lawyers,
n; subservience to the rich, ,
–, ; “take it with you”
deathbed request, –, . See also
debts; Economic Predator jokes; fees
Montaigne, Michel de,
Moral Deficiency jokes: criminals equated
with lawyers in, –; described, ;
indifference to others in, , –;
lack of charity in, –; moral
obtuseness of lawyers, –; prostitu-
tion compared to legal profession in,
–; rats equated with lawyers in,
Index
Moral Deficiency jokes (continued ) Pacino, Al,
–; sexual impropriety and, ; Papke, David, n
standards lowered for lawyers in, paralegals, ,
parasites, , –,
morality: lawyer as moral equivalent of Parsons, Theophilus, n
shark, ; legal practice as amoral, partners: “appeal at once” jokes, –;
–; moral elasticity of lawyers, ;
“role morality” of lawyers, . See also balloonist needs directions, –;
Allies of the Devil jokes betrayal of, , –, ;
exploitation by, ; love of justice as
Moses and Ten Commandments, flaw in, . See also junior lawyers
mother-in-law jokes, , Pathelin, Pierre (dramatic character),
Mother Theresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Pearce, Russell, n
Pearly Gates, . See also St. Peter
– peers, betrayal of,
muggers, penises, –
Myrdal, Gunnar, – Perkins, Eli (Melville D. Landon), –
mystification, legal, – Perot, Ross,
Perry Mason, , n
Nader, Ralph, persuasiveness, –
Narayanan, K., n
Narayana Rao, Velcheru, n Peter of Blois (medieval critic of legal
National Conference on the Causes of profession), –
Popular Dissatisfaction with the Philadelphia,
Administration of Justice, , n Philadelphia lawyers, –, n
Nazis, pickpockets, lawyers as, –
Netherlands, , Pierce, Jennifer, , ,
Newton, Kenneth, Pigmy Revels comic strip,
Nixon, Richard, – pigs, , –n
Nolo Press, , pirates, –
Pitts, John W.,
oath stories, , –, n planes as setting, , , –; plane
Objects of Scorn jokes: animal comparisons
crashes, –
in, –; Death Wish jokes and, ; Plato, n
described, ; historical examples of, plumbers, ,
–; lawyers as subhuman, –, poison, –, , n
, –; “lower than x” jokes, – political correctness, , , n
; political uses of, , , n;
public opinion and, –; switching politicians: Death Wish jokes and
and, –. See also feces; urine elimination of, ; jokes targeting
O’Connor, Sandra Day,
oiketypes, –n lawyers in the U.S. target politicians
Ole and Lena jokes, , n elsewhere, , –; switching of
oral tradition, , , , n, n jokes from politicians to lawyers, , ,
Ornitz, Samuel B., , , –; trust in, ,
Osiel, Mark, politics: legal discourse and, –;
the Other. See outsiders
outsiders: abuse of law by, ; Jews as, ; litigation explosion as political issue,
in the legal profession, –; as naive, , , –; scorn of lawyers used
–; truth spoken by, – to political advantage, , , n;
Owen Marshall, Southern politics, –. See also
politicians
Poor Richard’s Almanac,
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popular culture: film portrayals of lawyers, jokes as influence on, ; litigation
–, ; iconic lawyers in, –, –, explosion, , –, –; loyalty to
, –; jokes as folklore, ; clients, –; polarization of,
nn–; Pound Conference and,
lawyers’ devotion to clients as motif in, , n; power of lawyers, public
–; legal culture expressed through, perceptions of, n; role of lawyers
; plays, lawyers as characters in, , in litigation explosion, ; satisfaction
, ; recording and transmission with lawyer’s services, , ; “social
of jokes in, –; television portrayals costs” of lawyers, perceptions of,
of lawyers, –, , , ; violence n; trustworthiness, , , ;
in, truthfulness of lawyers, ; wealth of
Porsdam, Helle, lawyers, n
Pound, Roscoe, , n punishment: death penalty, ; just
Pound Conference, , n desert as part of jokes, , ; of
Powell, Enoch, n lawyers rather than perpetrators, –;
Powell, Thomas Reed, relative authority of law and religion,
Prasad, Rajendra, n ; verdicts and, . See also hell
predators. See under animals; Economic Quayle, Dan, , –, –
nn–, n
Predator jokes
pregnancy, , rabbits,
Prest, Wilfred, – race: honesty and, ; jokes omitted in
Presumed Innocent,
republished book, , Copeland
priests. See clergy reference; of lawyers in jokes, ; race
“professional courtesy” jokes, –, relations revealed through jokes, –;
racial identity omitted from jokes,
professional triad (the Triple Plea), –n; racist jokes, , n;
–, switching from racist jokes, , ,
–n, n, n
professions: professional triad, –, Radin, Max,
; rivalry between, –, –, , railroads: conniving claimant, –;
–; second opinions, , –; lanterns, ; lawyer thrown from train,
; naive ethnics, –; railroad
switching of jokes from one profession claim agent, –; railroad lawyer
to another, –, , , n. See outsmarted, ; railroad moguls as
also legal profession; specific professions clients, ; train tickets, ; train
prosthetic arms, wrecks, , , –
The Rainmaker, , ,
prostitution: dancing girls compared Raskin, Richard, , n, n
to lawyers, –, ; lawyers as rationality: as characteristic of lawyers, ,
prostitutes, –, ; lawyers equated ; excess of, ; not attributed to
with prostitutes, –; “lower than x” lawyers, –
jokes, rats, –, , –
Ray, Laura Krugman, n
psychologists, receipts, –, –
public interest law, – Reed, Thomas B.,
public opinion: advertising’s effect on, registry of jokes, –
n; class bias of legal system, ;
contact with lawyers and, ; decline
in regard for lawyers, , nn–
; ethical standards of legal profession,
; excess of lawyers, perception of,
–, ; fees and perceived
over-charging, , n; of honesty
and ethical standards of lawyers, ;
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regulatory legislation, , , , Saferstein, Harvey I. (president, California
n Bar Association), , n
Rehnquist, William, St. Dunstan Triumphant,
religion: conversion jokes, –, ; St. Ives (Yves de Kermartin, patron saint
God as character in jokes, , , of lawyers), –, , ,
–, –, ; as ineffectual when St. Peter, , , , –, –
compared to law, –; lawyers as Sarat, Austin,
arcane priesthood, , –, ; Satan. See devils
scales of justice,
patron saint of lawyers, St. Ives (Yves de scarcity: of clergy in heaven, ; of
Kermartin), –, , , ; prac-
tice of law and, ; prayer for strife, honest lawyers, –; of justice as joke
; religious lawyering movement, subject, ; of lawyers among saints,
n; religious observation by –; of lawyers in heaven, , –,
lawyers, –n; secularization of the , –
law, ; switching of jokes from clergy scatological jokes. See feces; urine
to lawyers, –; “taboo” animals reject scorn. See Objects of Scorn jokes
lawyer’s company, . See also clergy; Scots, –, –
screwing: as characteristic professional
devils; heaven; hell attribute, –; dogs, , ; Jewish
reporters, – lawyers and, ; lawyers engage in sex
rescued by mistake, , for professional advancement, –;
resourcefulness, –, –; betrayal as occupation of both prostitutes and
lawyers, ; as professional attribute of
jokes and, –; “check in the coffin” lawyers, ; trust and, ; uses
as problem solving, – entrusted funds for sexual adventures,
restaurants, , –; women lawyers and,
Reuben, Don, secretaries, ,
riddles, , , , , , , , , secularization of the law,
, , self-interest of lawyers: anti-lawyerism
Riesman, David, , and, ; betrayal jokes and, –;
rights, legal, , , –, charity and, –; “check in the
rivalry: among lawyers, –; within coffin” stories, ; trickery and, –.
legal firms, , , –; between See also indifference
professions, –, –, , – self-representation,
roadkill, –, settlements: eagerness to settle, –;
robber barons, – reluctance to settle, –
Rodell, Fred, sex: anti-sex jokes, –; bestiality, ;
“The Rodent” (satirist), headache cure, ; homosexuality,
role fiasco jokes, – ; lawyers as lustful, ; penises,
Rolex watches, , –; sexual and economic predation,
roommates, –; sperm, . See also prostitution;
Roosevelt, Theodore, screwing
roosters, sexploitation, –, ,
Rosen, Robert, Shakespeare, William,
Rosenthal, Douglas, n shame, occupational, , –
Ross, Stan (Australian law professor), , sharks, –; illustrations, ,
n Sharpening the Flats,
Rotunda, Ronald, n Shaw, George Bernard,
The Rule of Law,
Russians,
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sheep: “fleecing” the clients, –; ; Betrayers of Trust jokes and, –,
“idiocy defense” and sheep’s tongue, –; business jokes and, ;
–, celebrity rebuffed joke and, ; “check
in the coffin” stories and, –;
shit. See feces “crafty guy wins” stories and, , ;
shysters, , , n, n Death Wish jokes and, –; defined
Sikhs, and described, –; Discourse jokes
Silberman, Laurence H., – and, ; doctor jokes and, , n;
Silberman, Matthew, n Economic Predator jokes and, ; ethnic
Silbey, Susan S., n jokes and, , , , –, , ,
Simpson, A. W. B., , n; evidence of, , n;
Simpson, O. J., incomplete, , n; in-law jokes
sins, , – and, –, ; Jewish jokes and, ,
Sir Bullface Double-fee Plays Both Sides, –, –, , , –; joke
books and, ; lawyer jokes and, ;
political jokes and, , , –;
skidmarks, –, print publication and joke histories,
slavery, – ; from profession to profession, ,
Smigel, Erwin, –, , , n; racist jokes and,
Smith, Frederick Erwin, st Earl of , , n; religious jokes and,
–, –; resistance of jokes to, ;
Birkenhead, sexploitation jokes and, –; shark
snakes, –, , , , , jokes and, ; show business jokes and,
–; social changes and, ; spouse
n jokes and, , –, –, ;
Soviet and communist East-European “switchability,” n; Talmudic
stories and, –; tyrant jokes and,
jokes, –, , –,
speeches: ghostwritten speech, –; symbolic nature of the law,
“two speakers” version of pockets joke, Taylor, Stuart,
teachers, ,
Spensley, James, n telephones, , , –
sperm, television portrayals of lawyers, , , ,
spiders,
spinning. See switching , n
spit (saliva), terrorists,
spouse jokes, , –, –, –, Thatcher, Margaret, , n
themes of jokes,
Stalin, Josef, thieves: lawyers as, –; lawyers
Stark, Steven,
Starr, Kenneth, –, encourage clients to steal, ; thieves
status, lawyer jokes and, as clients, ,
Steur, Max, , thinking, ,
Strange, John, Thomas, Gerald,
Strong, Theron G., Thompson, Hunter S., n
Summers, Robert, Thornberg, Elizabeth,
Supreme Court, –, – “three questions” jokes, –,
surveys. See public opinion “three-wishes” jokes, –
Swedes, – thrillers, legal, ,
Swift, Jonathan, , , n
switching: adapted jokes, ; anal jokes
and, –; anti-communist jokes and,
, ; awareness of joke histories and,
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tigers, Ulbrich, Walter,
Tocqueville, Alexis de, Ultimate Lawyer’s Joke Book,
To Kill a Mockingbird, –, , United Kingdom: anti-lawyerism in, ,
Toler, John, Lord Norbury, n
tombstones, , –; legal culture in, –; nature
Tooke, John Horne, , n of jokes in, , , , –; scorn
tort reforms, , –, –n jokes in,
toxic waste, – United States: as distinct, ; joke
Trachtenberg, Joshua, , , n culture compared to other nations,
Trachtenberg, Steven, –; legal culture as context, –; as
trade unionists, – litigious culture, (See also legends,
Train, Arthur, n % of world’s lawyers); post-
revolutionary attitudes toward lawyers,
trains. See railroads ; social contexts for lawyer jokes, –
translation, , n Untermeyer, Samuel,
urine: in Cokes, –; lawyers as urinals,
transmission of jokes: doctors as carriers
of, ; email and, n; language as uselessness of lawyers: advice to balloonists,
barrier to, n; law schools and, , –; blacksmiths more valuable, .
, , ; print media and, –, See also excess of lawyers
; recording and, –; Websites
and, vampires, ,
vanity,
Trickster jokes, – victims: the affluent as victimized, ;
The Triple Plea, ,
truck drivers, – clients as, –, ; fake victims
Truly Tasteless Lawyer Jokes, (See injuries, feigned); liability shifted
trust: “artificial trust,” –; decline in, to injured party, –, ,
Vietnam War, ,
; lawyers and erosion of, ; public villains, lawyers as social villains,
opinion regarding trustworthiness, , violence toward lawyers, , , n;
, ; screwing and, ; social trust, violence as endemic in popular culture,
–. See also Betrayers of Trust jokes –. See also Death Wish jokes
truth: advocacy vs. truthseeking, –; as virtuous lawyer archetype. See heroes
malleable or indeterminate, –, visual jokes and illustrations: accordions,
–, n; “outsiders” and, –; law as abused instrument, ; apes as
barristers, ; battling with umbrellas,
surveys and polls about truthfulness, ; billable hours, , ; birds of
; trampled in illustration, . See also prey, ; Blessings of Britain, ; A
Cheap Beating, ; Chinese restaurant,
honesty; lying ; clergy in, , , ; clients in,
T-shirts, , , , , , , , , ,
Tucker, E. F. J., , ; coats-of-arms, , ; A
Turow, Scott, Councilor, ; country bumpkin client,
Tutt, Ephraim (fictional character), , ; crocodile lawyer, ; dead lawyers
as urinals, ; devils in, , , ,
n , ; doctors in, , , , ;
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), documents in, ; duplicity as subject
“two plus two” jokes, –, n in, , , ; “endangered” animals
“two sides” jokes, , ; coats-of arms in, ; epitaphs in, ; evidence, ;
with symbols of duplicity, , ;
justice and, ; lawyer argues wrong
side, . See also duplicity
tyrants, ; switching of jokes, –,
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father fired from firm, ; fees in, , wives: abet sexploitation of client, –;
; feigned or exaggerated injuries, burglar superior to lawyer as husband,
; firing squad, ; freeway exit, ; ; consigned to the devil, ; as
hanging lawyers, ; “How much jus- disposable, ; home renovation paid
tice can you afford?”, ; joke books, for by another’s divorce, ; illustration
lawyer’s collection of, ; judges in, ; depicting seduction of client’s wife, ;
juries in, ; lawyer as laboratory rat, injured to collect damages, ; jealous
; The Lawyer Winding Up His wife, ; vs. lovers, –; morally
Accounts, ; litigious children in, ; concerned about golf partner, ;
marriage proposal as legal overture, ; poison spouse, , n; seduction
meta-jokes, ; Moses and Ten Com- of, –; sexual predation and
mandments, ; Pigmy Revels comic infidelity, , , –, , ;
strip, ; seduction of client’s wife, ; switching from spouse jokes, –,
sharks in, , ; Sharpening the Flats, ; women lawyers as unsuitable
; snakes in, ; Truth and Justice for,
trampled, ; urinals, ; vultures in,
; women lawyers in, , , women: blondes, , ; double standard
vultures, , for women lawyers, ; gender politics,
; as gold diggers, ; as lawyers in
Wall Street lawyers, , , , – illustrations, , , ; as lawyers in
Walters, Barbara, n jokes, –, ; life insurance and,
Warner, Jake, , –; melting into manure, ;
Watergate crisis, –, secretaries, , ; sexism in legal
wealth: income of lawyers, n; profession, , –; widows, , ,
–. See also prostitution; wives
subservience to the rich, , –, .
See also Economic Predator jokes word play: “criminal lawyer” word play,
“We Are Not the Enemy,” – –; homophone jokes, –, ,
Websites, jokes circulated on, , n, n; lawyer / liar
Webster, Daniel, homophones, –, , , n;
What to Do with a Dead Lawyer, “pre-victual” agreement in Chinese
illustration from, restaurant, ; rooster joke,
whiplash,
widows, , , – workaholism: spouse vs. lover joke, –;
Wilde, Larry, wishes undone by partner, –;
Will, George, n women lawyers as anti-family, –
wills, –, , –
wisdom, – “worse than x” jokes. See “lower than x”
wishes: doubled for lawyers, –; jokes
“three-wishes,” –; undone by
partner, . See also Death Wish wrecks. See accidents
jokes Wright, Milton,
witnesses: doctors as expert witnesses, ,
, –; inconsistencies in testimony, yokels: blonde outsmarts the lawyer, ;
; outsmart lawyers, , – illustration depicting country bumpkin
client, ; Indians (Native Americans)
as, –; outsmart lawyers, ; rescue
lawyer, ; Sikhs as, . See also farmers
or ranchers
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