Lawyers Bar ‘Miller Time’ After Joke

A Pennsylvania lawyers’ association banned Miller brand beer from its annual meeting last week because of a television commercial for Miller Lite that features a rodeo where lawyers get lassoed.

The Luzerne County Bar Assn. said it asked the Irem Temple Country Club in Dallas, Pa., to serve Coors brand beer at its party to protest Miller’s attempt to capitalize on lawyer bashing.

Eric Kraus, a spokesman for Miller Brewing, a Milwaukee-based unit of Philip Morris Companies Inc., said the commercial was not intended as an attack.