When it comes to lawyer-bashing, there is not much new under the sun. Hostility toward lawyers is a perennial. Yet its expres- sions vary greatly. There is a great cultural repertoire of anti- lawyer observations and sentiments.1 At any time one or another grievance may gain prominence. The changes in fashion are not random, but part of wider changes in sensibilities. I propose to examine the distinctive anti-lawyerism of the present to see what it tells us about our legal system, our society and ourselves.
