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Ashland, Missouri

[ClearCase_guy]

"Nobody cared about justice anymore; it was just about applying rules.

A lawyer who doesn't want to pay attention to rules. Great. A lawyer who "knows" what justice is, and simply expects it to be applied (maybe she likes Judges who legislate from the bench).

From this article I don't get the sense that any lawyers are quitting due to the fact that it is an evil, immoral profession which tries to twist the truth in order to squeeze as much money from as many people as possible. I guess THAT'S not a problem. It's the dang rules that make it unpleasant.

[Mercat]

I've been a lawyer now for 25 years. Most of the time in family law. Hard work. I'm now in solo practice instead of senior partner in a small firm. It gives me a bit more flexibility and although I have more responsibility for my clients, I don't have a staff of seven to worry about. I have one person working for me. I have more work than I can do and a decent income. Not a bad way to make a living. The key is keeping it to 40 hours/week or less and not bringing it home.

[Richard Kimball]

Oh, darn. And there's such a shortage of lawyers.

[wbill]

"Nobody cared about justice anymore; it was just about applying rules

Am I the only one who finds this statement unsettling? I thought that's what court is supposed to do.....uphold the law.

[camle]

big diff 'tween and 'twixt tort lawyers, criminal lawyers and family lawyers. if I was one, I'd rather be a family lawyer. it's the tort lawyers that give them all a bad name.

[LanPB01]

The day I left my previous firm was one of the happiest days of my life, and I only worked in the profession for a year. I can't imagine how bad it would have been if I'd stayed longer.

[xsmommy]

is it true you are turning pastry chef....? ; )

[keats5]

I'm an inactive attorney. I left law to be a full time stay-at-home mom. I'm amazed to have found so many other women who have made the same choice.

Before law school, I was a nurse. Since nursing has historically been a woman's profession, it's easy to re-enter the field after raising kids. Many hospitals offer re-enty courses. I've found no such thing as a legal re-entry course yet here in Ohio.

[mountaineer]

I practiced law for nearly 12 years, left the profession, earned a culinary arts degree, worked in that field for a while until the physical demands took their toll on my feet and back, and eventually found my current profession, for which I am well suited. While a lawyer, I always felt I did my best to "do justice" for my clients and for society, and was quite successful, by that measure. However, it just was something my personality didn't fit. It helps to be an aggressive, confrontational, outgoing person if one hopes to be happy as a lawyer, and I am none of those. Leaving law was the right thing for me to do.

[boris]

Have they defunded the Legal Services Corporation yet?

[Bluntpoint]

I quit law. I now farm, raise horses and write a bit.

I found the law and many lawyers to be very ugly, in an ethical and moral sense.

[StriperSniper]

"Nobody cared about justice anymore; it was just about applying rules.

The big question is what to do when 'The law'(rules) are at odds with 'Justice'(what is right).

[szweig]

There are, very simply, entirely too many lawyers in this country. Maybe this is a sign that the situation is righting itself (hope***hope***hope)

[bigeasy_70118]

I have been solo practice for five years. I started out of law school and am light years ahead of where my friends with big firm jobs are. There are problems with the law, for sure but I love representing real people and making a difference in their lives.

[Porterville]

End times...

[Consort]

We have a bad legal system masquerading as a System of Justice.

[rightofrush]

Our pastor at the Lowman Community Church was admitted to the Idaho Bar, but decided to answer a higher call for service to his fellow man.

For femminist illiterates, the inclusion of woman is implied in the generic "man".

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A death penalty appeals specialist from Framingham, Terranova, 38, said she was fed up with increasingly strict laws to limit appeals, inflexible sentencing guidelines, and funding shortages that prevented her from hiring the necessary experts....Terranova, who plans to become a private chef once she wraps up her case involving a death-row inmate in Texas.

They won't let her tie up the courts endlessly appealing for the release of her murderous client until she finds a judge that will let him out because his mommy made him eat his carrots?

My heart bleeds.

[MEGoody]

"Nobody cared about justice anymore; it was just about applying rules."

Any more? Victims often did not get justice because some slime ball 'got off' because of the 'rules'.

[A Navy Vet]

Surprised they haven't gotten together and filed some kind of class action suit.