Legal Briefs [antikvár]

Introduction If Everyone Hates Lawyers So Much, Why Are They Buying Our Books? Hey, know why lab techs have started using lawyers instead of rats in their experiments? Chances are, you do. Lawyer jokes are everywhere -they're even more pervasive than lawyer books. Lawyers have replaced ethnic groups and rival sports teams as the principal basis for juvenile humor. People who would never dream of telling ethnic jokes heartily tell and retell lavy^er jokes' without feeling the least remorse about classifying thousands of people as 'had' just because they are members of a group. How can they get away with this? Well, they get away with it because everyone hates lawyers, at least if you believe the media - the comedians looking for an easy laugh or the politicians looking for an easy round of applause. The reasons for this negative public sentiment are not hard to understand. Journalistic coverage of legal matters is atrocious. Court TV gives America a 1