Our thanks to an unnamed Denton Wilde Sapte partner and an e-mail doing the rounds within the City’s legal community for the following jokes:
Satan is showing a lawyer round hell, when the lawyer spies a series of dials.
“There is one dial for each profession,” Satan explains on noting the lawyer’s interest.
“Each time a member of this or that profession commits a sin the dial moves forward one step. That way I can see who is up to what.”
The lawyer peruses the dials and checks the various professions. He sees dials for accountants, doctors, even journalists, all ticking along quite happily into perdition, click by click. Surprisingly, there is no dial for lawyers.
Greatly relieved, he asks Satan why there is no dial for lawyers.
Satan replies: “As you can imagine it gets rather hot down here, so I keep the dial for lawyers in my bedroom – as a fan.”
