Blaming the lawyers distracts from the real problem: legislators. Every lawyer attracting ire is only bringing into effect some dumb-ass law passed by legislators. If all the American anger focused on lawyers were refocused on Congress, maybe we'd get reform instead of useless whining.
Grass Valley has a law that you are not allowed to ride an elephant down main street at more than 5 miles an hour. Who cares. The same can be done to the environmental laws. They can be rendered irrelevant. That would be my choice. Let the free market reign.