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Tends to be associated with America (especially in [[The Nineties]]) although it's a global trope to some extent.
See also [[Amoral Attorney]] and [[Ambulance Chaser]] for the evil lawyers themselves. Of course the one problem with these is that lawyers don't think they're funny<ref>Not entirely true, since most of the jokes tend to be aimed at litigators. The majority of lawyers will hardly ever go anywhere near a courtroom. If anything they dislike litigators even more than the general public do since they tend to earn more and have better working hours than those of us who spend our working lives reviewing and drafting contracts and devising tax ruses.</ref> [[Never Heard That One Before| (and have heard most of them before)]] and nobody else thinks they're jokes. Anyone who uses jokes like this should remember one thing: Nobody likes lawyers until they actually ''need'' one.
For actual lawyer jokes, see [[Evil Lawyer Joke/Quotes|the quotes page]].
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{{quote|Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves, and lawyers! }}
* The [[Capitol Steps]] song "'Atsa Lawyer", from their 1991 album ''76 Bad Loans'' (sung to the tune of "That's Amore"):
{{quote|''When you see your ex-spouse with a low form of louse''
''{{'}}Atsa lawyer!''
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** "I heard you used to be a lawyer. Do you ever miss those days?". Cue hysterical laughter.
* In an ''[[Andy Capp]]'' strip, Andy is arrested and demands to see his lawyer, [https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2013/06/04 but his lawyer is already there, in the next cell.]
* Used frequently regarding Steve Dallas in ''[[Bloom County]]''. In one of the collections, Breathed remarked about [[Actually Pretty Funny| how frequently lawyers would respond positively]] (often asking to buy a print) to the jokes.
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