Lawyers 0
Q. What’s the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
A. One’s a scum-sucking bottom-feeder. The other’s a fish.
It’s easy to joke about lawyers–that is, until you need one. My lawyer is a plain-talking and plain-writing straight shooter.
But not all of them all.
John Grogan, in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, discusses how lawyers succeed in making their profession and their colleagues the butt of such sarcastic humor in discussing these two cases:
Mr. Grogan’s column is well-worth a read; click the link to see it all.
The raw material is just too good to pass up.
These presumably are smart people, so why is it they so often come off sounding so utterly dumb? Not just dumb, but ridiculously out of touch. In being zealous advocates for their clients, they can end up sounding like they just beamed in from Planet Goof.
