One-Time Lawyer Finds Job Hopes Riding on E-Mail

The Washington Post ^ | 6/29/03 | David Finkel

[Capriole]

Sob story? Pity party? You must have missed the last few lines. This story is about a man suffering, being humbled, and as a result of that experience being able to help people far more than he ever could have done as a lawyer. It's almost too good to be true. He is a much finer human being now than he was before he lost his job. God does have a plan for our lives, incomprehensible though it may seem when viewed through a veil of misery.

[dfrussell]

How tragic... an unemployed lawyer.

Are there no ambulances to chase?

No McDonalds to sue?

[ijcr]

Easy, solve the problem by government undertaking to :-

1. Encouraging people to smoke.

2. Demand that everyone participate in unprotected sex.

3. Drive motorcycles and bicycles without helmets.

4. Increase the alcohol limit to .6 in drinking and driving cases.

5. Ban seatbelts and air bags.

6. Insitute free meal programs at McDonalds.

7. Change building codes so that houses contain asbestos and radon.

8. Espouse a Martha Stuart butter on everything diet.

9. Issue free guns to manic depressives.

10. Hire non-english speaking doctors and nurses.

11. Make French the offical language, but don't tell anyone.

12. Lift all speed limits.

[July 4th]

Yes, it is. More and more people every day are coming to realize that our legal system is one of the main impediments to progress and civil order. Tort reform is coming and it will be ugly for lawyers. Deal with it.

And fewer and fewer people realize that all lawyers are not left-wing tort lawyers. People who formally call themselves trial attorneys make up about 3% of the profession. Lawyers help you with your will, structure your business, help you save on taxes, draft contracts, represent "Grutter" and "Gratz" in affirmative action cases, and on, and on. They are paid to know the law, not skirt justice. This is the bulk of the legal profession.

[wafflehouse]

you know what a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean is right? :-)

[wafflehouse]

you cant be surprised.. when 99% of lawyers are either interested only in their bank account (with no conscience or morals to hinder them) or actively seeking to destroy the US of A one piece at a time.. there just arent enought good lawyers to go around.

[ccmay]

People who formally call themselves trial attorneys make up about 3% of the profession.

Coulda fooled me. Looking at the Yellow Pages, I would guess the number is closer to 50%.

-ccm

[Xenalyte]

Due to rules created by lawyers, you must higher a lawyer each time property changes hands to do a title search.

Actually, you don't have to. That's what my company does - we do the search and the insuring.

[ccmay]

JURIES, which are composed of your PEERS.

Juries are hardly my peers. Thanks to the filthy dirty shysters, forum-shopping and voir dire ensure that juries are typically made up of the stupidest, laziest, most gullible Jerry Springer Show watchers in town.

Thanks for reminding me of one more way we need to reform the legal system.

-ccm

[ccmay]

BTW, Adolph Hitler also shared a similar irrational hatred of lawyers.

I invoke Godwin's Law. You lose by default. No lawyers or juries necessary.

-ccm

[Archangelsk]

Damn, this is why I never argue with sensitive people. Look, this is nothing more than an academic exercise. Do I think that there's an evil, vast conspiracy out there that wants to strangle a sizable chunk of our population? No. Do I think that the present system (designed in the 1930s for the average life expectency back then) is outdated and about to be overrun? Yes.

Throughout the last 150 years we've seen many economic transitions mostly involving communications (the latest being the Internet, which, ahem, was built by the government). For every boom era there follows a bust era and that's the normal economic cycle we fall into. The difference now is that we don't know where the next stimulus is going to come from and the service-based economy is simply not going to cut it.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

the jury you describe sounds right about your same level. why don't we just appoint you supreme judge?