The intelligent wife

Posted by Prashantt1@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 36 comments

A Lawyer, representing a wealthy art collector called him and said,

"Paul, I have some good news and I have some bad news."

The art collector replied,

"I've had an awful day; Let's hear the good news first."

The lawyer said, "Well, I met with your wife today and she informed me that she invested $1,500 in two pictures that she thinks will bring a minimum of $15-20 million. And I think she could be right."

Paul replied enthusiastically,

"Well done! My wife is a brilliant businesswoman! You've just made my day. Now I know I can handle the bad news. What is it?"

The lawyer replied, "The pictures are of you and your secretary."

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mkaszycki81@reddit

If she talked to the lawyer and announced her intent, he would be forbidden from talking to her husband.

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Xerxesinxs@reddit

the lawyer represents the man not the woman

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mkaszycki81@reddit

Why would she go to her husband's lawyer instead of taking her own?

And from what was mentioned on relationship advice subs, lawyers are forbidden from taking you on as a client, and even from talking to you regarding a divorce if your spouse talked to them before.

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Xerxesinxs@reddit

cause the lawyer can advise the husband accordingly!!

if she told her husband, he can have her done away with but through his lawyer gives a layer of protection

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Triasmus@reddit

forbidden from taking you on as a client

The lawyer is already the husband's lawyer. I imagine that changes things.

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Pkrudeboy@reddit

And you think that the teenagers who make up the majority of advice sub posters understand law?

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drowned_beliefs@reddit

I hate when jokes have unethical actors.

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mkaszycki81@reddit

I don't mind the lack of ethics, I mind unrealistic premises.

And in this case, the lawyer would be risking his fee, so he has nothing to gain from divulging this information.

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YoteViking@reddit

There isn’t anything unethical about this. The lawyer is the husband’s lawyer. Not the wife’s. Says so right in the first sentence. Now he could know them both. But he represents the husband.

She could have come by and said “See these? I want to divorce him and i want my half! I’m going to get a divorce lawyer!” And there would be nothing wrong with the conversation above.

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Mikesaidit36@reddit

Except that then the art dealer’s lawyer wouldn’t frame it as good news in which case it just wouldn’t be a joke.

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Affectionate_One_700@reddit

Do you understand how good-news/bad-news joke work?

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Mikesaidit36@reddit

Well, I’ve got good news for you, and bad news….

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Affectionate_One_700@reddit

Dad ... ?

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SorryCompetition7791@reddit

Maybe the call was to set up divorce negotiations proceedings

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tomrlutong@reddit

He's the husband's lawyer, not the wife's.

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SolutionOk3366@reddit

It sounds like the wife has filed for divorce, and her attorneys have added the pictures as grounds for proceeding. The art dealer’s lawyer has seen the evidence and is informing his client. Seems above board legally, if not ethically of the part of the husband.

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Think_Possible_2865@reddit

You’re very confused. You seem to think that the wife shared confidential information with the lawyer while trying to form an attorney-client relationship with him. If that were true, then, yes, of course the lawyer could not repeat the information to the husband without the wife’s consent. That’s not what happened.

She didn’t go to the lawyer to say, “Hey, can you represent me in divorcing my husband?”

She went to the lawyer to say, “Hey, inform my dirtbag husband that I’m divorcing him.”

Because the lawyer represents the dirtbag husband, he has an ethical responsibility to share this information with the husband, and that’s also what the wife wanted to happen.

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EngineersAnon@reddit

Depends on whether she spoke to him as her husband's lawyer or as the family's.

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mkaszycki81@reddit

If she talks divorce with a lawyer, that lawyer is not allowed to talk to her spouse concerning divorce, is he?

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kevandbrandy@reddit

Bottom of b2.. almost b3

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Kailynna@reddit

Where would the money come from? No point in the husband paying, the wife already knows.

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Sufficiently_Jokey@reddit

Presumably the wife would be getting that money via the divorce or alimony. I don't mind that part, but the guy's name shouldn't just get introduced in the middle like that. Either use names or placeholders, not both.

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