"Going to law school does not make you better at "rendering fair and impartial rulings". It only allows to to write laws so convoluted that you need to hire an attorney to interpret them if you are not one to make sure another attorney and teh courts ( another attorney who by the way plays golf with the other attorneys, so he'll be impartial yeah, right ) doesn't screw you. Damn right or wrong as long as the wherefores and billable hours are covered. Job security/creation at best."
That is probably one of the best descriptions of today's legal system's maladies that I have seen to date. It wasn't always that way. But snake oil salemen took over, and corrupted the system. We were warned the Judiciary could render the Constitution down into bathroom tissue by dint of its 'rulings'. Lo and behold, it has happened.
One of the biggest scams if filing fees. I have to pay some guy $50-$100 or more plus court costs just for filling out a standarized form and giving it to a clerk who stamps it and puts it in a folder.
Let's not even get into property or divorce law.
On a side note I've toyed with the notion that there should be no case law or presidence. Every case should be decided on its own merit. They want to make big bucks then earn it and argue every case "prima facia".
Lawyer joke: I wanted to be a lawyer, but they would not let me into law school because my parents were married when I was born.