Posted on 09/27/2008 4:07:00 PM PDT by Cripplehawk
If there was a lousy lawyer in town the people soon knew who he was and only the poor would bother to hire him. The good lawyers charged what the market would bare for their services.
Today with easy transportation a shyster could pick up his brief case and set up an office in a new town in a week if not for the Bar association. He could be charging hours and providing poor council even though he was driven out of town some where else.
Yes doctors and lawyers still perform malpractice today with professional association performing oversight. Professionals are ill at ease disciplining their own and it usually takes a great deal of bad acts to get them to remove a fellow’s credentials as can be seen by the long list of charges against Jack Thompson.
It better to have an enforcement body than not. The complexity of the law today makes it essential that some minimum standard be enforced. Yes the advent of the internet may make it easier to look for a competent professional but if you are poor and you a looking for a cheap lawyer how do you know if the lawyer you are thinking of hiring has the minimum knowledge to do what you need him to do? Do you just take your chances?
“He was a really snippy dude here. Not friendly at all, unless you kissed-up to his pet theories.”
That is exactly how I recall him...
Jack was my Sunday School teacher at Granada Pres. (PCA).
He used to take us to Denny’s instead of doing the lesson (sometimes).
That is DITHF
Back in those days, he kept this forum smokin. There was never a dull moment with Jack around, no matter how a person felt about him.
sw
With a little searching I believe I found the thread that got him banned.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010416002606/http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39719ca95afa.htm
Unfortunately, I don't think that there are any minimum standards for lawyers.
Jack is nuttier than squirrel poop. Period.
(( ping ))
(( ping ))
That’s from someone with a dog in the fight. That’s why I went looking for it on the official site.
Which time?
LOL. You must be like me and have been a long time lurker before registering. I remember the Freeper Lost in the Hurtgen Forrest. A fraud, but an interesting one.
My original screen name was shannond. I had ISP problems, got a new e-mail address and couldn’t remember my password. It was easier to re-register. I was a frequent poster during the impeachment proceedings.
“Shut up, judge, I was talking.”
Although isn’t there some provision where you can. What is a ‘next friend’
All good points, I guess. Only I think you underestimate the power of the information age. Plus, it’d be customers watchdoging professionals, not so much their colleagues.
I know, I know, most people are too stupid to know the what heck doctors and lawyers are doing.
No I am all for customers watching the professionals and the information age makes that a whole lot easier. However customers can only lookout for themselves. Customers do not have the power to permanently put the bad apples out of business.
The power of the free market is in force today yet you can see that regardless of all of the bad publicity that Jack got in the local press he still continued to find customers.
Some one has to have the power to say that after enough bad behavior that Jack can not go on committing malpractice
My libertarian sensibilities say that I would rather have a professional organization doing this than a government organization.
Why can't you? The bar associations only govern attorneys.
Nothing much stops you from serving as your own attorney and arguing your own case.
I imagine we'll soon be seeing Jack Thompson doing just that, in fact.
“Nothing much stops you from serving as your own attorney and arguing your own case.”
Actually, quite a lot stops me, in the sense that no one sues me and I’m not ever charged with criminal offenses. Ah, there are traffic violations. But then I’d plead my case to a judge and not a jury. I could always start suing people, but who and for what?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.