The lawyer was too clever for his own good...

[Rocky]

 

[cmason1957]

Um. couple of minor points. If the lawyer won the case, then fraud was already ruled out. And burning something with no intent to defraud someone isn't against the law.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cigarson/

 

[BernardSmith]

But arguing that the story is fiction doesn't make it any less clever. It's a joke and it's a clever joke and a funny one, not least because the lawyer gets his comeuppance