Cover of 100 Funny Jokes About Lawyers, a funny gift book for lawyers

The funny gift for lawyers

100 Funny Jokes About Lawyers

Billable hours, redlined wedding speeches and 'per my previous email': 100 jokes every lawyer will find painfully true.

  • 100 original jokes about Lawyers
  • Perfect for Lawyers enthusiasts of all ages
  • Great conversation starter and gift idea
  • Professionally written comedy content

Paperback · £6.99 on Amazon UK · $6.73 on Amazon US

A taste of what's inside

6 of the 100 jokes. The rest are in the book.

What's the difference between a lawyer and a herd of buffalo?

The lawyer charges more.

Knock, knock.

Who's there? Will. Will who? Will you please stop objecting to everything I say?

Why don't lawyers trust stairs?

They're always up to something.

What's the difference between a lawyer and a liar?

The pronunciation.

Why do they bury lawyers 12 feet deep?

Because deep down, they're really good people.

Why are lawyers like movie directors?

They're always looking for a new angle.

About this book

The ultimate gift for Lawyers enthusiasts! This hilarious collection of 100 original jokes will have them laughing out loud. Perfect for birthdays, Christmas, or just because. A must-have for anyone who loves Lawyers and has a great sense of humour.

A funny gift for lawyers

Buying for someone who lives and breathes lawyers? They probably own all the kit already. This book gives them something they cannot buy for themselves: 100 jokes that prove you have been listening to every story about it.

It works as a birthday present, a Christmas stocking filler, a Secret Santa gift or a just-because laugh. Amazon prints and ships it, so you can send it straight to them.

Looking for more ideas? See our Funny Gifts for Colleagues: Joke Books by Profession, or browse Christmas stocking fillers.

Who this book is for

This book is for the lawyer who answers 'Do you want pizza?' with 'Well, it depends...' followed by three caveats and a hypothetical. It's for the one who owns a single trial suit that has seen more courtrooms than some judges, logs a phone call with their mum as 'a 0.3', and still mentions their moot court days at every opportunity. If they've ever tracked changes on a wedding speech and left a comment bubble saying 'Consider rephrasing', you know exactly who we mean. Perhaps you're married to one, and you've received a text that began 'Notwithstanding the foregoing...' about whose turn it is to take the bins out. Maybe you're a friend who's watched them read the full Terms and Conditions before downloading a weather app, or a family member whose group-chat plans came back redlined. This is your chance to tease them affectionately, and since you're putting it in writing, they can't say you didn't memorialise your feelings. Or perhaps you're the lawyer yourself, buying this between 11:47pm emails from a partner that simply say 'Thoughts?'. You've debated the Oxford comma with religious intensity, signed off with 'Per my previous email' more times than you'd admit, and sorted your entire social life into billable and non-billable. Assuming arguendo that you can laugh at yourself, this book is for you. Think of the time spent reading it as non-billable but entirely justified.

Questions about this book

Expect sharp, affectionate humour drawn from real legal life, from the irony of going to law school 'because I'm bad at maths' only to spend every day calculating billable hours and damages, to the colleague who somehow billed 26 hours in one day by flying across time zones. There are one-liners, longer set-ups and plenty of jokes about contract language, passive-aggressive emails and the gulf between legal TV dramas and the reality of document review.
Absolutely. It makes an ideal present for a newly qualified solicitor or barrister, a law student surviving exam season, a retiring partner or anyone whose idea of work-life balance is having two monitors. It also works brilliantly as a Secret Santa gift in chambers or at the firm, and it is entirely non-billable reading.
Not at all. Most of the jokes land with anyone who has ever dealt with a lawyer, sat through a courtroom drama or received an email beginning 'Per my previous email'. That said, those in the profession will spot extra layers, such as the use of 'notwithstanding the foregoing' in texts to a spouse or the joy of 'assuming arguendo' a point purely to dismantle it in the next sentence.
Rather than recycling the same tired 'shark' jokes, this collection is built around the things lawyers actually laugh about amongst themselves: the tyranny of the billable hour, the menace of 'Please advise' and the habit of pausing 'Suits' to explain everything it gets wrong while secretly loving every episode. It reads as though it was written by someone who has survived a document review marathon, which is precisely why it rings true.

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