[alloysteel]

Tort law, as practiced in the US, is the Great American Lottery, with the primary recipients of the awards being the "hard-working" trial lawyers, whose blind ambition have made them the "new rich" which have been so deeply despised in other eras. They are the most loathsome of parasites, contributing nothing to a lasting legacy, but sporting the most recent and most fashionable opinions and emblems of a transient prestige. They are the abusers of our age, as unprincipled as the "robber barons" of the 19th Century, and with even fewer fetters on their actions.

[Vinnie]

... with the primary recipients of the awards being the "hard-working" trial lawyers, whose blind ambition have made them the "new rich" which have been so deeply despised in other eras. They are the most loathsome of parasites, contributing nothing to a lasting legacy, but sporting the most recent and most fashionable opinions and emblems of a transient prestige.....

Surely you can't be referring to John Edwards, possible presidential candidate? <.G.>