Au contraire. They might not manufacture or produce tangible products, but they provide a service. Would you say accountants prodcuce nothing? Lawyers are a part of a system that maintains law and order, that settles disputes peacefully.
But wait! You must know that. Is it the hair, and the suits, and the babes, and the "style", and the jakes, and the TV, and LA Law, and The Practice, etc?
No. My inspiration was Law and Order, because I want to pursue justice. Thinking about criminal prosecution. Tell me that isn't a valuable contribution to society.
Well said. You make my point.
It is true that we need these services. Because of the ongoing deconstruction of "law by reason", or law by Judeo-Christian Ethic, referred to and updated minute by minute and freshly labeled "Legality", your services ARE in ever increasing demand. And, as I said earlier, you refine your loophole "certainty", and thus you create the need for others of your new legal specialty.
Corporations hire teams of attorneys, not only to protect themselves from breaking the law, but as often to find loopholes to exploit the law itself. Every new ruling creates a new need. I see the cancer. Where is the PRODUCTION?
Yes you provide a service. And the end product of that service is packaged and delivered in lily white toilet paper, excuse me, "Legal" sheets.
My personal observation of who you are, upon reading your smug, flip, "brighter-minds-than-your-own" answers, is one who is an enabler of our hugely dysfunctional tort sytem. I'm sure you have more Mercedes' than I do, and gold Rolexs, but being rich does not make you right. Nor does it make you a philosopher. Better you stick to something that has no edges...
That quaint, outdated idea of Right and Wrong is so "lame", I mean, "Everything GOOD for someone is BAD for someone else, right? What's truth got to do with it, anyway? "Everyone is equally entitled to the best defense he can buy right? Ain't that moral?" Your just picking the side that pays the best... EITHER side is entitled to the best judgment they can buy. Your just the facilitator, the mediator, the compromiser, the peacemaker." I mean, THERE YOU ARE, speakerphone on, framed by the 'de rigeur' impreissive, oversized library wall of hundreds of almost new, sequenced "Judicial Reviews" and legal tomes, upright and natty behind your berylwood desk, ready to serve! Okay team, as you know, its all about "BILLABLE HOURS, start the clock..."
I gotcha.