The lawyer's son wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, so
he went to law school and graduated with honors. Then he went
home to join his father's firm.

At the end of his first day at work, he rushed into his father's
office and said, "Father, father! In one day I broke the Smith
case that you've been working on for ten years!"

His father responded: "You idiot, we lived on the funding of
that case for ten years!"