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The Legal Lampoon: A Biased, Unfair, and completely accurate law review from Non Sequitur

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You will like this book if you
a) appreciate the humor and superb drawing-style of Wiley
b) really, really hate lawyers
c) you are a kind of lawyer yourself.

If all of the above applies, I can guarantee that you will love this book. I do.

What can I say; as a lawyer in training, its good to get the perspective of how I am going to be viewed in society. My personal favorite strip from the book involves Ernie the Sociopath, but you will have to buy it to figure out what he does. This book is hilarious, and is perfect if you have regular dealings with those in the law profession. I would not recommend giving this as a gift to an attorney; after all, we know how sensitive they are.
Overall, Wiley is one of the best comic strip artists today. The art is crisp and clear, and more importantly, the strips are not dominated by dialogue. Many of the strips in this collection involve a small caption and then just art. As I am currently in law school, I feel I have the privilege to paraphrase his introduction, which is to the effect that so long as we have ambitionless kids, whose only desire is to make money, our law schools will always be full. This sentiment is expressed clearly throughout this collection, and will leave anyone rolling on the floor in laughter at the "legalities" attorney's are there to protect.

As a lawyer, I detest lawyer jokes--unless I tell them!

The Legal Lampoon includes the jokes I would like to have told first, in cartoon form. As with the book, I look forward to each day a lawyer strip appears from Non Sequitur.

If you like lawyers, and particularly if you don't, you will like these!

Wiley Miller skewers life in a wonderful way. Targeting lawyers (I have a couple in the family) is almost too easy, but he carries it off perfectly. My daughter the lawyer loved it!

I discovered Non Sequitur a couple of years ago and always look forward to more of this wonderful humor.

First there was Larson, and then, there was Wiley... When Larson stopped making cartoons, the world groaned - and I found Non Sequitur! If you love dry humour in cartoons and an 'outside in looking out' type of outlook on life, then you'll love just about anything concerning Non Sequitur. Unlike Larson, Wiley is more diverse in what he pokes fun at, and this book is a special collection of the fun he pokes at the humourless legal profession. It plays on stereotypes, it probably preys on reality, but the end result is a hilarious collection of books aimed at gently lampooning the legal profession.

Lawyers, and the law as it's actually practiced, are baffling, convoluted, and impossible for the layman to understand.

Thank you, Wiley, for giving the clearest, most understandable interpretation to date!

If you don't already love Wiley's outrageous, piercing humor, treat yourself. The only thing wrong with this book is that it ends - I finished the last page ready for more.