A living lawyer joke

How many lawyer jokes are there? Only three. The rest are true stories

I used to think this was just another lawyer joke. But now we are watching the classics of this genre come to life in the spectacular meltdown of New York law firm Dewey & Leboeuf.

"Size, in and of itself, gives you greater flexibility in key markets," Dewey & LeBoeuf's former chairman Steve Davis boasted in 2008. "You're