- Excuse me, - a young fellow said to an older librarian, I've just moved here and I wonder if this town has any criminal lawyers.
- Well, - replied the librarian, I have lived here all my life and all I can tell you is we are pretty sure we do, but no one has been able to prove it yet.
A persistent job-seeker once appeared before President Lincoln and demanded an appointment to a judgeship. He was informed that there were no vacancies. The next day, while walking along the river, he saw a drowned man being pulled out, and recognized him as a federal judge.
He ran back to the White House and demanded the position.
- Sorry, - said the President, but the lawyer who saw that judge fall in beat you here by a good five minutes.
A woman was being questioned in a court trial involving slander.
- Please repeat the slanderous statements you heard, exactly as you heard them, - instructed the lawyer.
The witness hesitated:
- But they are unfit for any respectable person to hear, - she protested.
- Then, - said the attorney, just whisper them to the judge.
The first lawyer questioning a panel of prospective jurors began right off as an intimidating showman. When he came to his question:
- Do any of you here today dislike lawyers? - they stiffened and hesitated.
Before the pause became too long, the judge announced:
- I do.
What do you call an honest lawyer?
→ An oxymoron.
A lawyer returns to his parked BMW to find the headlights broken and considerable damage. There's no sign of the offending vehicle but he's relieved to see that there's a note stuck under the windshield wiper.
"Sorry. I just backed into your Beemer. The witnesses who saw the accident are nodding and smiling at me because they think I'm leaving my name, address and other particulars. But I'm not."
A person is in the hospital and asked his doctor how much time does he have left to live. The doctor did not want to lie so he told him that he wouldn't make it through the night. So the person calls for his lawyer and asks him to come and sit by his bed. Right before the person dies, the lawyer asks him why did he want him next to him. The dying person replied:
- When Jesus died, he had a thief next to him and I want to go the same way.
"You seem to have more than the average share of intelligence for a man of your background," sneered the lawyer at a witness on the stand. "If I wasn't under oath, I'd return the compliment," replied the witness.
A tough case was being argued in court. The defense attorney, feeling that he was in trouble, sent the judge a bottle of hundred-year old brandy. The defendant was fit to be tied.
- The judge'll kill me. Trying to bribe him! We're dead!
- I don't think so - his attorney told him.
- I sent it in the other lawyer's name!
A man walks into a friend and sees that his friend's car is total loss and covered with leaves, grass, branches, dirt and blood. He asks his friend:
- What's happened to your car?
- Well - the friend responses.
- I ran into a lawyer.
- OK - says the man.
- that explains the blood... But what about the leaves, the grass, the branches and the dirt?
- Well, I had to chase him all through the park.
