99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. "Please don't hit me - my lawyer's in jail." "Where there's a will, I want to be in it." "Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse." "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." "People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made." "What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away." "Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing? "Man minus ear waives hearing." Law: The kind of ban than men forget. Lawsuit: 1. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage; 2. Generally a matter of expense and suspense; 3. Something which nobody likes to have and nobody likes to lose; 4. Usually a loss-suit. Lawyer: 1. A fellow who is willing to go out and spend your last cent to prove he’s right; 2. A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself; 3. A man who induces two other men to strip for a fight, and then runs off with their clothes; 4. A person who helps you get what’s coming to him; 5. He who is summoned when a felon needs a friend; 6. One who protects us against robbery by taking away temptation; 7. The only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished; 8. A cat who settles disputes between mice. If Adam and Eve were alive today, they would probably sue the snake. Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Maybe it is because there are a lot of lawyers but maybe not. ¤ It's most likely because the practice of law has become more business oriented or commercialized. Is it possible that lawyers nowadays are becoming servants of business? It doesn't help that the majority of society doesn't seem to have[make] any extra time for themselves.