One little-noticed bit of fallout from the ongoing financial crisis is the decline of lawyer jokes. “I don?t think people are as worried about lawyers as they are bankers and financial people,” Marc Galanter was saying this week. Galanter, an emeritus UW-Madison law professor, would know. He wrote the book on lawyer jokes. “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture” came out in 2005. In the book, Galanter noted that it was around 1980 when lawyer jokes both increased and became more vicious.
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