[Sequoyah101]

All just dead wrong. If you ever have something there will be people scheming to take it from you.

My BIL and I were at a BBQ joint years ago seated in a booth with high dividers made of wood planks. Behind me there sat a group of young fellows I knew to be newly or nearly newly minted lawyers. The conversation they were having that I overheard was about who in the area had enough money to be a lawsuit target for something, anything they could come up with. I knew one of the targets, an older fellow in town and told him to be wary. He died before the pettifogging lawyers came up with anything against him.

You don’t have to be guilty of a thing to be sued and ruined. It happens every day.

In Henry IV, Dick the Butcher conspired to kill all the lawyers to facilitate their overthrow of the government as they were obstacles to their ambitions by upholding the law. That view of lawyers as noble pillars of the community is much changed now. “First thing let’s do is kill all the lawyers.” but for much different reasons now.

[Dr. Franklin]

My BIL and I were at a BBQ joint years ago seated in a booth with high dividers made of wood planks. Behind me there sat a group of young fellows I knew to be newly or nearly newly minted lawyers. The conversation they were having that I overheard was about who in the area had enough money to be a lawsuit target for something, anything they could come up with. I knew one of the targets, an older fellow in town and told him to be wary. He died before the pettifogging lawyers came up with anything against him.
You don’t have to be guilty of a thing to be sued and ruined. It happens every day.

The best advice, is don't appear to be wealthy. The first thing lawyers do when looking to sue someone is to do an asset search to see what the target owns that can be used to satisfy a judgement. Keeping assets in trusts or holding companies frustrates their ability to know who owns what, and makes them much less likely to bring suit. Also, be careful of giving too much information on credit applications since it ends up on your credit report. Underreporting income on applications can dissuade some law suits as well.