Lowering the Bar off the record

My friend, Marc Galanter, has written a serious book called Lowering the Bar on jokes about lawyers which abound. Galanter feels that often 'lawyers' are scapegoats in America when Republicans want to downsize the judiciary's power. Indian jokes are therapeutic - giving the client leeway to project lawyers as greedy, unreliable and manipulative. If all this is true, we have a bad system of lawyering.

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