Dracula Was a Lawyer

Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo score again with a collection of over 500 fascinating facts and trivia bits about lawyers, organized into topics such as Judge Not, Unless Ye Be a Judge, I Fought the Law and the Law Won, Fightin' Words, and Money Grubbing. Among the tidbits contained here are: one-time lawyers who went on to other jobs including John Cleese, Mahatma Gandhi, Julio Iglesias, and Geraldo Rivera; two-thirds of U.S. presidents have been lawyers, but not Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, or Harry Truman — they dropped out of law school; the number of lawyers in the U.S. doubled between 1970 and 1985 — now more than 65 percent of the world's lawyers are in the U.S.