Nevertheless, the context indicates a second meaning which has some truth. This is a group of rather rude, and brutal, chaps. They are resentful and uneducated, and discuss, in idle chit chat, taking over the world, and imposing their arbitrary personal, and particular wishes on everybody else. The first impediment to this tyranny is that group of awkward bugger, the lawyers. The point is that the law, as set down by our society in general, is there to protect individuals against exactly such arbitrary and vengeful behaviour.
Lawyers can sometimes help to resolve disputes.
That will often mean that someone loses. They might naturally resent their opponent's and sometimes even their own lawyer. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. This note relates to English law only. Law changes constantly, and a short note cannot reflect the complexity of real life.