Lawyer advertising

Truman Chafin, majority leader in the West Virginia state Senate, is a trial lawyer who does not like to see other lawyers advertise. According to The Associated Press, a subcommittee of the House-Senate Judiciary Committee has been assigned to study limits on lawyer ads.

Chafin, according to the AP, says lawyer advertising has helped sink public opinion of lawyers "into a doleful chasm wherein lawyers are equated with used car salesmen, moneygrubbers and shysters."

You mean they weren't already? Then why are lawyer jokes so popular? (If you have a good clean one, please send it my way. I'm running dry.).

Also, Chafin forgot to include televangelists, snake oil salesmen and newspaper editorial writers in his list of despised occupations. And Congressmen and legislators, too. One of my favorite one-liners is Bob Hope's "It was so cold in Washington yesterday, Congressmen were standing around with their hands in their own pockets."