Lawyers, too, are spineless, as willing to argue one side of a case as the other. For the right price. Best known as scavengers of the dead and dying, sharks have well-honed sensors with which they can track the sounds of other injured and struggling beings. Precisely the distance a hopeful personal injury lawyer will run behind an ambulance to toss a business card. From the moment of birth, sharks' skin is tough and rough, covered with thousands of tiny hard teeth call denticles that abrade any passerby made of softer stuff.
Lawyers are also thick-skinned.
Easily identified by their humorlessness and abrasive personalities, they are the bane of many social gatherings. A shark will swallow anything, up to half its own size, in one gulp. Several hundred years ago, a naturalist wrote that the headless body of a knight in armor was found in a white shark's stomach. Lawyers, too, will swallow anything, even their pride, as increasing numbers of lawyer hopefuls trudge to law school each year for three years of browbeating in the hopes of financing their Porsches. Some sharks even prey on their own kind.