AMST 3822 Chapter 5: Lowering the bar chapter 5
20 Feb 2019
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Jokes about lawyers tend to be generic. Geographical markers are infrequent and enver essential to story. Specialized fields largely unremarked by lawyer joke corpus. Lawyers are almost without exception white males of no discernible ethnicity in the world of lawyer jokes. In the joke world all lawyers are private practitioners. Lawyers, in house, public interest or legal services lawyers. While lawyer jokes have multiplied and flourished, the legal profession has undergone dramatic change with more lawyers and an ever greater portion practicing in ever larger large firms. The jokes portrayal of what lawyers do reflects this individual client vantage point. Few lawyer jokes target or even mention women lawyers. Of the few, most focus on the issue of competitiveness. The threatening character of the woman lawyer was registered almost as soon as the first women lawyers appeared. On the other hand women lawyers are also suspected of being insufficiently tough.
