How many lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb?

How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is TEN.

1. One to attend the bulb to confirm that the bulb is, in fact, blown and to document the circumstances surrounding the failure of the bulb in order to establish liability;
2. another to research and consider the replacement bulb required (and possible alternatives);
3. one to attend to ordering the bulb;
   
4. one to undertake research on the action necessary to correctly change the bulb and to draft a memo outlining the action required to remove, purchase and replace the bulb (taking care to include all relevant indemnities and waivers of responsibility);
5. one to proofread, settle and engross the memo;
6. another to undertake a second attendance on the bulb for its removal and replacement;
7. together with an instructor for the bulb twister to take accurate contemporaneous notes and provide assistance;
8. another to serve as witnesses as to the replacement of the bulb,
9. another to stand by in case one of the others becomes ill or otherwise incapacitated;
10. and finally one more to write a memo to the file documenting the failure of the bulb and the purchase of the bulb’s eventual replacement and its replacement for the purposes of the bulb’s continued operation

– which memo is then filed and cannot be located next time a bulb blows – necessitating the employment of a further ten lawyers to undertake the entire exercise a second time, without the benefit of the prior learning's occasioned by the earlier case which was on all fours with the current situation.