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Laughing at the law: behind the jokes

What do you call 1,000 lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

Everybody has heard lawyer jokes, where they are continually seen as ambulance chasing, business card toting, spare-change vacuums. They are good for a quick chuckle, but few stop to think about their origins and how they act as commentary about society�s legal system.