Dave wrote in
:

Actually, a lawyer with any degree of self-confidence and sense of
propriety will use "Esq." only when writing other lawyers--not with
reference to himself. Unfortunately, there are a few, particularly
those just out of law school, who are very full of themselves and
insist on using it indiscriminately.


I still think it's fun to hand a lawyer a dead flashlight and two new
batteries to see if he can make it light without calling for outside
aid....(c;

I've never figured out what makes one worth over $6/hour.....

.....about what we pay his typist who does most of the work.