An Honest Lawyer
JOKE OF THE WEEK, 4 Mar 2013
An investment counsellor went out on her own. She was shrewd and diligent, so business kept coming in, and pretty soon she realised she needed an in-house counsel, so she began interviewing young lawyers.
“As I’m sure you can understand,” she started off with one of the first applicants, “in a business like this, our personal integrity must be beyond question.” She leaned forward. “Mr. Peterson, are you an ‘honest’ lawyer?”
“Honest?” replied the job prospect. “Let me tell you something about honesty. Why, I’m so honest that my father lent me fifteen thousand dollars for my education and I paid back every penny the minute I tried my very first case.”
“Impressive… And what sort of case was that?”
The lawyer squirmed in his seat and admitted, “He sued me for the money.”
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 4 Mar 2013.
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