“How many personal-injury lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?” (lawyer joke)
Personal injury lawyers sometimes have an unfavorable “ambulance chaser” reputation. A combination lawyer joke and lightbulb joke is:
Q: How many personal-injury lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three — one to turn the bulb, one to shake him off the ladder and one to sue the ladder company.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1996.
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“Q: How many personal-injury lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: About five hundred. The first 499 will develop various neck and wrist injuries, be cut by broken glass, be electrocuted, be taken out by no printed warnings about injesting glass and metal, suffocate, be hit by busses, etc…”
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Credit: These jokes were taken from the local magazine “Washington Law and
Politics” Published in Seattle WA.
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Q. How many personal-injury lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Three - one to change the bulb, one to tip over the ladder and one to sue the ladder company.
TwinCities.com
For lawyers, the fight for 35W bridge victims is personal
By DEBRA O’CONNOR | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: November 14, 2015 at 2:52 am
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Personal-injury lawyers sometimes are regarded as ambulance chasers who will sue on the slightest of pretexts. They even inspire jokes:
How many personal-injury lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? Three — one to turn the bulb, one to shake him off the ladder and one to sue the ladder company.
8 July 2010, CQ Roll Call (New York, NY), Stupid Warning Labels; The Trouble with Lawyers” by John Stossel:
STOSSEL: OK. How many personal injury lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? Three, one to turn the bulb, one to shake him off the ladder, and a third to sue the ladder company.
The Herald (Scotland)
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10 Aug 2015 / KEN SMITH
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NORMALLY we eschew lightbulb jokes, but having seen so many advertisements on the telly, we pass on: “How many personal injury lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
“Three.
“One to change the bulb, one to shake him off the ladder, and one to sue the ladder company.”
Civil Beat
April 13, 2017
Stripping Lifeguards Of Immunity Would Be A Perilous Mistake
The Hawaii Senate passed a bill to extend liability protection, but that was before a lawyers’ organization got ahold of it.
By Civil Beat Editorial Board
You’ve heard the old joke: It takes three personal injury lawyers to change a lightbulb — one to turn the bulb, another to shake him off the ladder, and the third to sue the ladder company.