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Shakespeare was said to have a distrust of the legal profession following his encounters with those worthies. The gravedigger observed by Hamlet clearing old bones, making room for new burials brings up a lawyers skull.

Hamlet holds forth.

There's another. Could that be a lawyers skull? Where's all his razzle dazzle legal jargon now? Why does he allow this idiot to knock him in the head. Instead of suing him for assault and battery.
Act 5 scene 1 page 5

Shakespeare muses on what all human beings are finally reduced to. Their power and influence no more.