And lawyers do tend to act like lawyers.

Even lawyers who have no such qualms tend to be picky about which cases they'll take.

In New York, he said, lawyers tend to think of postponements as intrinsic to being a good adversary.

But lawyers, especially those who represent employers, tend to hear the word "simplicity" and go for their guns.

Courts, of course, do not adjourn to let a lawyer tend to a sick child, and trials can stretch a workday to 14 hours.

Clients and antitrust lawyers also tend to be skeptical of limiting price competition.

But lawyers and bankers tend to be better compensated for their efforts than $70,000-a-year game programmers.

Like the public, lawyers tend to assume that death sentences are meted out only after the most rigorous of proceedings.

The lawyers tend to keep to themselves in their own little sections.

Defendants and their lawyers tended to plead guilty to almost anything rather than risk being tried under the laws.