Make more sense if there was a rule not to save lawyers from drowning no matter where they are.
Unfortunately, that rule wouldn't hold up either, at least insofar as lawyers are human beings -- you'd have to save them regardless.
Reminds me of the old joke about the biology research lab that switched from using rats for their experiments, to lawyers. When asked why they were using lawyers instead of rats, the researcher replied, "Because there are some things that a rat just won't do."