Public distrust of lawyers reached record heights in the United States after the Watergate scandal.
[2] Lawyer jokes (already a perennial favorite) also soared in popularity in English-speaking North America as a result of Watergate.
Tips included: "The Bar Exam - Thousands of morons have passed - so can you", "Partnership: you can make it, if you know what to kiss, and whose", and "Understanding what lawyers do - and how to stop them doing it to you".
The Washington Post declared White “the legal profession’s court jester”[5] and credited him with having “helped launch the current wave of legal humor.”[6] It was described by Time magazine as a book which would "not win an award from the American Bar Association".
[9] The UK edition was described by The Times as "one of the most irreverent, funny and perceptive books about the legal profession ever published".