# Is it too easy to bitch about lawyers? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-too-easy-to-bitch-about-lawyers/303448 "2005-05-11T20:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-too-easy-to-bitch-about-lawyers/303448/21 "2005-05-14T02:03:01Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Lawyers make work for other lawyers. What’s that old joke about one lawyer in town having nothing to do, and two lawyers in town means they’re busy all the time? Yeah, right, because people never need contracts drafted or wills prepared or patents applied for or … I hate that canard, too. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-too-easy-to-bitch-about-lawyers/303448/22 "2005-05-14T04:54:55Z")
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-too-easy-to-bitch-about-lawyers/303448/23 "2005-05-14T05:00:55Z")
Jeez, it’s just jokes. A good buddy of mine is now a jr. partner at a DC firm; and although he works for an organization whose basic function is to assist mega-corporations as they sue the living pants off of anyone in their way in what amounts to protectionism by litigation, I’d take a bullet for the guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-too-easy-to-bitch-about-lawyers/303448.md?page=1)