There were no lawyers in my family, so lawyer jokes were considered fair game. To the rest of the world, lawyers are the perfect game animals: big, slow afoot and tasty. My family was no exception.

And since my roots are in the South, most of the jokes involved Southern lawyers. One I loved as a boy involved a criminal defense attorney explaining to the jury in closing arguments why they should acquit his client of theft:

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