Lawyers give irrelevant information

Two women are on a transcontinental balloon voyage. Their craft is engulfed in fog, their compass gone awry. Afraid of landing in the ocean, they drift for days. Suddenly, the clouds part to show a sunlit meadow below. As they descend, they see a man walking with his dog.

One of the flyers yells to the man below, "Where are we?"

The man yells back, "About a half mile from town."

Once again, the balloonists are engulfed in the mist. One flyer says to the other, "He must have been a lawyer."

The other says, "A lawyer! How do you know that?"

The first says, "That's easy. The information he gave us was accurate, concise, and entirely irrelevant."

The man called back up to the balloon, "You must be a client." One of the flyers yelled back, "Why do you say that?" The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."