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Gags like this get Michael Scanlon Jr. fighting mad. The American Bar Association's new $170,000-a-year image consultant has heard just about every snide lawyer joke making the rounds -- and he is not amused. "Some cross the line from humor into bashing," he says. "And when something does cross the line, we have a right to speak out." Indeed, the A.B.A. has started a campaign to improve the popular image, so to speak, of lawyers. It's not going to be easy -- in the world's most litigious society, lawyer bashing has become a beloved pastime...
Among his battles, Scanlon has locked horns with Tonight show host Jay Leno, who considers lawyers prime fodder for his monologues. Scanlon claims Leno has "apologized" after the image consultant called to complain. But Leno won't admit to taking back any flak. When asked about the lawyer-boosting campaign, Leno chortled, "I can't say anything until I speak to my attorney! I mean, come on. We're not advocating violence or the overthrow of the judicial system, we're just telling silly jokes...
Thomas M. Scanlon, Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity, will receive $320,000 over the next five years...
...thrilling and rather embarrassing and daunting," Scanlon said yesterday...
...Scanlon said he hopes to use the money to allow himself "to devote more time to thinking about moral and political philosophy...