As an interesting thought experiment, I wonder how lawyers would feel if legal "processes" could be patented and the practice of law itself was subject to claim

As an interesting thought experiment, I wonder how lawyers would feel if legal "processes" could be patented and the practice of law itself was subject to claims of infringement? Particularly if relatively basic uses of basic legal principles were being patented and individual lawyers, rather than their firms, could be held liable. Because that's the sort of nonsense being inflicted upon computer scientists.