The old joke is, “What do you call a lawyer at the bottom of the ocean?”

A damn good idea. Now, that’s not right. Why screw up the fish? What did they do to deserve that? Even the sharks won’t eat a lawyer. They consider it cannibalism.

That’s not to say that only bad people become lawyers. Good people do too. Then they turn bad.

The only thing worse than a lawyer is a lawyer who holds a public office. First they take bribes to pass the laws, then they retire and make a killing off the laws they passed. Jeez, let’s just let them write a check from our taxes and be done with it.

There is one kind of good lawyer. The one who wins for you. He, or she, is good. The rest aren’t for crap.. After winning for you, your own lawyer goes back to being a thief. If you lose, then your lawyer was a con artist right from the start and you should have known better.

The really great trick that lawyers use is to convince you they aren’t lawyers at all. They are attorneys. If they intend to over charge you then they are Attorneys-at law.

Remember this the next time the police read you your rights.