You going to hit a lawyer!!??!!11one!!!

[Wazdakka]

Okay, I still say it's a bad show. In the commercial's defense, the point is that a jerk lawyer would want you to be afraid that he will sue you and/or see to it that you are properly charged for hitting him, not that one would not want to hit lawyers out of respect or liking for them.

[LeMieux]

Actually I think this is why most court officials have secure parking and live in gated communities...

Hitting a lawyer wouldn't be any better or worse than hitting a some random person. If it's in full view of at least one other person, you're getting arrested and likely sued.

Most lawyers that I know are decent enough people, the really apathetic and bad ones though smear that image. I think there's a saying that also helps the negative image, 'in almost every court case there is only one clear winner; the lawyers'.

As to the television show itself, it's just entertainment. Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.