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“I've often started off with a lawyer joke, a complete caricature of a lawyer who's been nasty, greedy, and unethical. But I've stopped that practice. I gradually realized that the lawyers in the audience didn't think the jokes were funny and the non-lawyers didn't know they were jokes.”
-William Rehnquist,
1997 speech at University of Virginia Law School, as quoted in Marc Galanter, “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture” (2006)