Posted on 03/15/2008 1:02:45 PM PDT by slackattack19
I went to law school in my late twenties because as a child of a blue collar worker, the law still held the allure of respect, riches, and opportunity that I would never have gotten as a teacher or insurance salesman. Law, Medicine, and Education back in those days were the automatic tickets to professional validation and upward mobility. I think one of those professions took a huge step backwards this week and not for what you may think.
People go to law school for a variety of reasons but one of them is not because they couldn't be hair stylists. They go because Law School and a Law Degree provide you with The Big Key. The Big Key opens doors for clients, opens opportunities for the lawyers, and opens doors that should've never been opened in first place. The Big Key gives you the power and authority to both right wrongs and wreck havoc in the lives and businesses of your friends and enemies. When a lawyer shows up with his Big Key in a court house or Congress, locks start springing open. When an insurance agent shows up they just get asked to make a proposal.
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all the professions become their own evil twins in the culture of death.
Let's hope they can pick up the pace a little
Who runs for congress? Lawyers.
Who has the time to run for congress? Lawyers
Who intellectually are the worst among us? Yep you guessed it.
Going to law school could be done while standing on their heads by any engineering or hard science student.
Who runs for congress? Lawyers.
Who has the time to run for congress? Lawyers
Who intellectually are the worst among us? Yep you guessed it.
Going to law school could be done while standing on their heads by any engineering or hard science student.
And all of the sudden common sense doesn't make sense anymore.
I deal with a lot of bright hard science people as expert witnesses, including chemists, geologists, biologists, and other hard science types.
Most would do well in law school. A significant minority, however, would never be admitted to a top law school because they are unable, even remotely, to write a coherent essay on any subject beyond their specific area of expertise and because, figuratively speaking, they wear blinders and suffer from tunnel vision and are, therefore, unable to see the big picture. Lawyers have specific skills also. Lawyers must, to be successful, see the big picture, and have the intellect to know what questions to ask the hard science guys and gals. Don’t let TV lawyers, personal injury lawyers ala John Edwards, and your ex-wife’s sharp divorce lawyer fog your understanding of what most lawyers do. In particular, criminal defense lawyers are the unsung heroes of our republic. Everybody likes to hate lawyers, but when you need one, you’re glad he or she is on your side.
Yeah, if you want to take over the government, permit anarchy or impose tyranny, the first thing you do is kill the lawyers because they are sworn to uphold the Constitution.
Law is the physics of the soft sciences.
Eh, I’m planning to go into corporate law so it feels like a whole different world from people like Spitz and Dickie.
“Everybody likes to hate lawyers, but when you need one, you’re glad he or she is on your side.”
I get your drift, but the reason most people need lawyers is because of what other lawyers have done previously.
At least I won’t have to make impassioned pleas to juries full of retards.
They sure have a funny way of showing it.
I can appreciate your "big picture" reasoning, to a degree, but lawyers, and not just ambulance chasers and divorce specialist, have had a lot to do with the current ills that face us today. Upholding the Constitution - HA - you mean like the lawyers that argued, and the lawyers(SC Judges) that through out/over turned a tenant of the Constitution that barred the public taking of land for private uses?
And then there's all that touchy freely, living document, legislating from the bench crap that's been going on.
Once upon a time your position might have held more water, but your profession (I'm assuming your a lawyer based on your post) is tossing all that aside.
If you feel I am totally off base, then so be it. But keep in mind, that I base my views on what I hear, see and read. And if indeed your profession is as above board and morally/politically righteous as you claim it to be, then you have a problem, because perceptions to the contrary abound.
Nope. It would drive them nuts. An entirely different, almost opposite skill set is required to thrive in law school.
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Who is “Dickie”?
I thought it was economics.
We all know the story of the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party as causes of the American Revolution. What is often lost in our understanding of these issues is that the root of this resentment was the role of Crown attorneys. Attorneys in the Colonial Era charged their clients for their services. Churchmen of the Establishment (Anglican) did the same. So that if you wanted to get married, buy property, make a will, plat a piece of land, etc. you needed to pay for the professional services of the clergy or the law. In theory this was only fair. These transactions needed to be correct and that required the efforts of a literate and learned professional.
What caused great resentment and ultimately revolt in the colonies is that the number and scope of these transactions grew both as a means of taxation and as a means of enriching the members of the bar and the clergy. Americans were self reliant and hard working. They did not see the value added of what they perceived to be the privileged class. They rejected what was common practice in the Mother Country.
So, this has happened before. The last time we got fed up with this nonsense, we tarred and feathers the offenders, seized their property, and sent them packing. ABA, are you listening?
Observations of Lawyers, Engineers, Rhodes Scholars, etc.
One lawyer told me that the only math he knew was how to divide by three.
Engineers and Lawyers kind of represent the extremes of mathematical and verbal intelligence. Health care professionals are kind of a combination of both types of skills.
Another lawyer, a Rhodes Scholar, also told me that he really didn’t do that well in math. And only a Rhodes Scholar would have come up with the lyric, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”, because in their world view, it is.
To close out the week, Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, the “King of Torts,” pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a judge.
Lawyers depending upon spell-checkers won't go far. Try "wreak"...
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