# The "I love lawyers" thread.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-love-lawyers-thread/313944>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 24, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-love-lawyers-thread/313944 "2005-07-24T19:25:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-love-lawyers-thread/313944/41 "2005-07-27T17:54:31Z")

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> [@The Highwayman](#):
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> Hey there!
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> Tell you what, we’ll admit that lawyers are scum if you stop spending money with pictures of lawyers on them.  
> .

IIRC only the $5 and $10 have lawyers on them, but it doesn’t matter. **jfranchi** , the reason we need lawyers is because (a) real life is complicated, and (b) disagreements happen. Contractual provisions can be so intricate that the best person to write a contract is often a lawyer–that’s the complicated part. And when people disagree on whether a contract is being fulfilled, a lawyer is the person best trained for sorting out the differences and negotiating, or litigating as appropriate. That’s the dispute part. And that’s without even considering the criminal arena.

IANAL.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-love-lawyers-thread/313944/42 "2005-07-27T18:02:45Z")

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Whoops, I stand corrected. Andrew Jackson was also a lawyer, though according to Wikipedia he actually read very little law. However that sufficed for frontier law, in a time and place where most people probably couldnt’ read at all.

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-love-lawyers-thread/313944/43 "2005-07-30T06:17:30Z")

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Good luck to all. And to all a good luck.

You know what they call the person who graduated dead last in his law school class?

Esquire.

So if I can become a lawyer, then god help us all, every damn one of you can too.

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-love-lawyers-thread/313944/44 "2005-07-30T06:50:22Z")

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> [@Sarah Woodruff](#):
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> Heh. One of my final law exams was conducted in a hall that had been invaded by [bogon moths.](http://mulubinba.typepad.com/mulubinba_moments/Bogong.JPG)

They’re not _real_ bogan moths. They’re not wearing tight Lees and moccassins. 😃

Good luck and best wishes to all taking the bar exams. 🙂

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