Marc Galanter Jokes Quotations

We have 500-year-old lawyer jokes still in circulation and most of them go back at least 100 years. But around the 1980s, there was a great shift. They became much more hostile.

I don't look to jokes as a balanced look at life. But they can be an indicator. Jokes work on shared and collective perceptions among people.

You can learn from them, you can see what is bothering people. ... The jokes are a screen on which people project their feelings about lawyers and the law.

A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are. I told him just three ? the rest are documented case histories.