Nat's Soapbox: Lawyer Jokes

I am a member of a couple of lawyer listservs as a way to get tips, post questions, and get a general lay of the land for what's going on. On the TBA (Tennessee Bar Assoc.) listserv today, there was a discussion of lawyer jokes.

I really don't think many lawyer jokes are all that great or funny. Everyone wants to put lawyers down and say some particularly bad things about us - TO OUR FACE BTW. What's truly sad, is that I don't normally say anything except, "It's a pleasure to work in a profession where I work to uphold your right to insult me."

Oh well. Most of the time I just shrug it off. But with that said, there was one particularly good joke we all passed around on the list provided by RJB of Johnson City, TN,

"An expensive lawyer, a cheap lawyer, and the Easter Bunny are sitting around a table. The table has $1000.00 in the middle. Who gets the $$?

Answer: the expensive lawyer. Why? Because the cheap lawyer and the
Easter Bunny are both figments of your imagination."