Posted on 02/27/2009 12:10:48 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
In an indication that even the mightiest law firms are suffering, Latham & Watkins LLP, one of the industry's titans, announced layoffs Friday of 190 lawyers, about 8% of the firm's attorneys.
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I know a couple of guys that work at the LA and the Newark, NJ offices. I wish them luck if they were cut.
From a plane? I hope they dropped them enough so they made sure.
In the spirit of lawyer jokes, “That’s a start”
Drops 190 lawyers? From how high?.,..........it’s a good start.................bada bump!............
Pardon while I cheer! Too many lawyers running around as is. Hope they manage to find honest work.
Can they sue?
Raise taxes, kill the markets, stop all oil drilling, balloon the deficit...that ought to fix our economy!!!
Your title doesn’t say from where they were dropped?
A cliff?
An airplane?
Please elaborate.
Professionals are often the first to be rounded up in communist “revolutions”.
Finally, some positive news!
What do you throw at a drowning lawyer?
His partner.
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After working in another lawyer’s office for 5 years, a lawyer finally opens his own office. But just as he’s about to begin business, he drops dead and goes straight to hell.
Upon arriving in hell, Satan approaches the man and says, “You’re pretty well preserved, considering your age.”
“I should be!” the lawyer said. “I kept very active and fit. I jogged to court every day, ran between the houses of two mistresses, but I never figured I’d kick the bucket at 30...”
The devil regarded the lawyer with some amazement, “30? You can’t be 30. According to your billable hours, you’re 85!”
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A lawyer parks in front of the courthouse and opens the door of his brand new Porsche to get out, when a big rig comes past and rips the door right off. Furious, because he knows that the best body man in the world won’t be able to make his car absolutely pristine again, the attorney screams obscenities about truck drivers at the beat cop running over to help.
The cop says, “You’re a lawyer, aren’t you?
“Yes, I am. How did you know that?”
“You guys are so materialistic! I bet you don’t even realize that your left arm is missing!”
The lawyer glances over toward his left side and bellows out in a stunned, grief-stricken roar, “Oh my God! My Rolex!”
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A lawyer is having lunch with his mother.
She says “is it true you charge $1500 to answer just three questions”?
“Yes”, he says.
“Don’t you think that is a bit steep”? says his mother.
“No”, he says, “What’s your third question”?
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The devil visited a lawyer’s office and made him an offer. “I can arrange some things for you, “ the devil said. “I’ll increase your income five-fold. Your partners will love you; your clients will respect you; you’ll have four months of vacation each year and live to be a hundred. All I require in return is that your parents souls, your wife’s soul, your children’s souls, and their children’s souls rot in hell for all eternity.”
The lawyer thought for a moment. “What’s the catch?” he asked.
A nice start. Now let’s get down to turning out all of the ambulance chasers you see advertised regularly on TV.
Do you know what’s black and brown and looks good on a lawyer?
No, please tell.
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