Hence the name. Of course, it makes perfect sense now. Which reminds me of the old saw:
Q:Why don’t sharks eat lawyers?
A:Professional courtesy.
Definition of waste - empty seat on busload of lawyers going over a cliff
My favorite lawyer joke:
Why don’t lawyers play in the sand?
Because cats bury them.
Joke #1
If two men have been run over by a car, how do you know which one is the lawyer?
There are no skidmarks in front of the lawyer’s body.
Joke #2
The National Institute of Health (NIH) announced last week that they were going to start using lawyers instead of rats in their experiments.
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The lab assistants were becoming very attached to their little rats. This emotional involvement was interfering with the research being conducted. No such attachment could form for a lawyer.
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Lawyers breed faster and are in much greater supply.
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Lawyers are much cheaper to care for and the humanitarian societies won’t jump all over you no matter what you’re studying.
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There are some things even a rat won’t do.
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a prostitute?
Whores won’t keep screwing their clients after they’re dead.