Why awful? I am serious.
Shakespeare had a character, a henchman say "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Henry VI, Part 2
And people are not all going "poor lawyers"

And most I have seen who quote it are not using in the way a lot of scholars and most well read lawyers interpret it - in context:
"Shakespeare's point was to portray lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law who stand in the way of a fanatical mob."