Lawyer Jokes

An airliner was having engine trouble, and the pilot instructed the cabin crew to have the passengers take their seats and get prepared for an emergency landing.

 A few minutes later, the pilot asked the flight attendants if everyone was buckled in and ready.

 "All set back here, Captain," came the reply, "except one lawyer who is still going around passing out business cards."

DEAR ABBEY - I HAVE A PROBLEM I have two brothers and two sisters, one brother is a Lawyer, the other was just sentenced to death for murder.

My mother died from insanity when I was young. My two sisters are prostitutes, my father sells narcotics to feed the family.

Recently I met a girl who was released from a reformatory where she served time for smothering her illegitimate child and I want very, much to marry her, my problem is this...

If I marry this girl, should I tell her about my brother, the Lawyer? Please advise ...

A lawyer and a blonde are sitting next to each other on a long flight from LA to NY. The lawyer leans over to her and asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.

 The lawyer persists and explains that the game is really easy and a lot of fun. He explains: "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and visa-versa."

 Again, she politely declines and tries to get some sleep.

 The lawyer, now somewhat agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $50" figuring that since she is a blonde that he will easily win the match.

 This catches the blonde's attention and, figuring that there will be no end to this torment unless she plays, she agrees to the game.

 The lawyer asks the first question: "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"

 The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a five-dollar bill and hands it to the lawyer.

 Now, it's the blonde's turn. She asks the lawyer: "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?"

 The lawyer looks at her with a puzzled look.

 He takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references. He taps into the digital cellular phone via infra-red wireless connection to his modem port and searches the Net and the Library of Congress. Frustrated, he sends E-mail to all his co-workers, friends, clients, and suppliers that he knows. And then some. All to no avail. After over an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $50. The blonde politely takes the $50 and turns away to get back to sleep.

 The lawyer, who is more than a little miffed, wakes the blonde and asks,

 "Well, so what IS the answer?"

 Without a word, the blonde reaches into her purse, hands the lawyer $5, and goes back to sleep.

One day in Contract Law class, a Professor asked one of his better students, "Now, if you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it?"

 The student replied, "Here's an orange."

 The professor was livid.

 "No! No! Think like a lawyer!" the Professor instructed.

 The student then recited, "Okay, I'd tell him, 'I hereby give and convey to you all and singular, my estate and interests, rights, claim, title, claim and advantages of and in, said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp and seeds, and all rights and advantages with full power to bite, cut, freeze and otherwise eat, the same, or give the same away with and without the pulp, juice, rind and seeds, anything herein before or hereinafter or in any deed, or deeds, instruments of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding..."

Attorney to witness: "And where was the location of the accident?"

 Witness: "Approximately milepost 499."

 Attorney: "And where is milepost 499?"

 Witness: "About halfway between milepost 498 and milepost 500."

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"

 The man below says: "Yes. You're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."

 "You must work in Information Technology" says the balloonist.

 "I do" replies the man. "How did you know?"

 "Well" says the balloonist, "Everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."

 The man below says, "You must work in business."

 "I do" replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

 "Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."

A minister and lawyer were chatting at a party:
"What do you do if you make a mistake on a case?" the minister asked.

 "Try to fix it if it's big; ignore it if it's insignificant," replied the lawyer.
"What do you do?"

 The minister replied "Oh, more or less the same. Let me give you an example.

 The other day I meant to say 'thus is the father of liars,' but instead I said 'thus is the father of lawyers,' so I let it go."

Court scene:
1st Lawyer: You're a fool
2nd Lawyer: And you're a damn fool.
Judge : As the learned lawyers have now identified each other, can we now proceed with the case.

A psychiatrist met a friend and exclaimed, "I heard you died." "But you see I'm alive ," smiled the friend.
"Impossible," said the psychiatrist. "The man who told me is much more reliable than you."

Two attorneys went into a diner and ordered two drinks. Then they produced sandwiches from their briefcases and started to eat. The owner became quite concerned and marched over and told them, "You can't eat your own sandwiches in here!"

 The attorneys looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and then exchanged sandwiches.

Q: How was copper wire invented?
A: Two lawyers were arguing over a penny.

A doctor and a lawyer in two cars collided on a country road. The lawyer, seeing that the doctor was a little shaken up, helped him from the car and offered him a drink from his hip flask. The doctor accepted and handed the flask back to the lawyer, who closed it and put it away. "Aren't you going to have a drink yourself?" asked the doctor. "Sure; after the police leave," replied the lawyer.

There was a job opening in the country's most prestigious law firm and it finally comes down to Robert and Paul.

 Both graduated magna cum laude from law school. Both come from good families. Both are equally attractive and well spoken. It's up to the senior partner to choose one, so he takes each aside and asks, "Why did you become a lawyer?" In seconds, he chooses Paul.

 Baffled, Robert takes Paul aside. "I don't understand why I was rejected. When Mr. Armstrong asked me why I became a lawyer, I said that I had the greatest respect for the law, that I'd lay down my life for the Constitution and that all I wanted was to do right by my clients. What in the world did you tell him?"

 "I said I became a lawyer because of my hands," Robert replies.

 "Your hands? What do you mean?"

 "Well, I took a look one day and there wasn't any money in either of them!"

There was once a young lawyer, age 29, who was on his way to work when he was hit by a bus. He goes to heaven and meet's St. Peter and pleads, "I am much to young to die, there must be a mistake!". St. Peter thinks about this for a moment and goes out the back to consult with God. Ten minutes later he returns saying, "There's no mistake, according to the hours you have billed your clients, you are 176 years old".

A very wealthy man, old and desperately ill, summons to his bedside his three closest advisors: his doctor, his priest, and his lawyer. "-I know,-" he says, "they say 'you can't take it with you.' But who knows? Suppose they're mistaken. I'd like to have something with me, just in case. So I am giving each of you an envelope containing one hundred thousand dollars and I would be grateful if at my funeral you would put the envelopes in my coffin, so that if it turns out that it's useful, I'll have something." They each agree to carry out his wish.

 Sure enough, after just a few weeks, the old man passes away. At his funeral, each of the three advisors is seen slipping something into the coffin. After the burial, as the three are walking away together, the doctor turns to the other two and says, "-Friends, I have a confession to make. As you know, at the hospital we are desperate because of the cutbacks in funding. Our CAT SCAN machine broke down and we haven't be able to get a new one. So, I took $20,000 of our friend's money for a new CAT SCAN and put the rest in the coffin as he asked.-"

 At this the priest says, "-I, too have a confession to make. As you know, our church is simply overwhelmed by the problem of the homeless. The needs keep increasing and we have nowhere to turn. So I took $50,000 from the envelope for our homeless fund and put the rest in the coffin as our friend requested.-"

 Fixing the other two in his gaze, the lawyer says "-I am astonished and deeply disappointed that you would treat so casually our solemn undertaking to our friend. I want you to know that I placed in his coffin my personal check for the full one hundred thousand dollars.-"

A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb."

 "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses."

 The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.

A Rabbi, a Hindu and a lawyer were driving late at night in the country when their car expired. They set out to find help, and came to a farmhouse. When they knocked at the door, the farmer explained that he had only two beds, and one of the three had to sleep in the barn with the animals. The three quickly agreed.
The Rabbi said he would sleep in the barn and let the other two have the beds. Ten minutes after the Rabbi left, there was a knock on the bedroom door. The Rabbi entered exclaiming "I can't sleep in the barn; there is a pig in there. It's against my religion to sleep in the same room with a pig!"
The Hindu said HE would sleep in the barn, as he had no religious problem with pigs. However, about five minutes later, the Hindu burst through the bedroom door saying "There's a COW in the barn! I can't sleep in the same room as a cow! It's against my religion!"
The lawyer, anxious to get to sleep, said he'd go to the barn, as he had no problem sleeping with animals.
In two minutes, the bedroom door burst open and the pig and the cow entered...

A Russian, a Cuban, an American and a Lawyer are in a train.
The Russian takes a bottle of the Best Vodka out of his pack; pours some into a glass, drinks it, and says: "In USSR, we have the best vodka of the world, nowhere in the world you can find Vodka as good as the one we produce in Ukrainia. And we have so much of it, that we can just throw it away..." Saying that, he opens the window and throws the rest of the bottle thru it. All the others are quite impressed.
The Cuban takes out a pack of Havanas, takes one of them, lights it and begins to smoke it saying: "In Cuba, we have the best cigars of the world: Havanas. Nowhere in the world there is so many and so good cigare and we have so much of them, that we can just throw them away...". Saying that, he throws the pack of havanas thru the window. One more time, everybody is quite impressed.
At this time, the American just stands up, opens the window, and throws the Lawyer through it...

 A housewife, an accountant and a lawyer were asked "How much is 2+2?"
The housewife replies: "Four!".
The accountant says: "I think it's either 3 or 4. Let me run those figures through my spreadsheet one more time."
The lawyer pulls the drapes, dims the lights and asks in a hushed voice, "How much do you want it to be?