Yea, what a low calling, an attorney, a position so important that the Founding Fathers specifically required the proffessions existence in the Constitution. You people have really got to get a grip.
And you need to reread the Constitution. The practice of law as it is today is a caricature of what the Founding Fathers intended it to be.
Lawyers, as we know them today, for the most part, are lowlife's ambulance chasers that know just how much they can gouge the system for.
And in so doing, they gouge the ones that cannot afford to be gouged in the long run.
What about the wife with a couple of kids, charged thousands by a lawyer, simply to file a reply to a petition from her ex-husband to deny child support...thousands that she is expected to repay on the pitiful amount of child support she receives. No one expects him to do it for free, but a couple of pieces of paper and 15 minutes in a court room should not be that costly.
How about the ambulance chasing lowlife that is first on the scene of a mishap, whatever it may be, with an admonition to the "victim", to say nothing, do nothing, without his advice, until he can "assess" the situation, in other words, see just how deep the pockets of someone "to blame", is.
How about the POS that goes beyond the defense of a person (i.e., Lynne Stewart) and actually participates in the crimes against which they are defending the perpetrator of?
Ever heard of a lawyer by the name of Bruce Cutler?
How about Mr. Cochran, whose lives fortunes were made by pulling the race card out and slapping a jury with it, and who could have cared less about the guilt or innocence of his client.
How about the ones that invest thousands of man-hours, researching some obscure law with which they initiate a suit, usually against a large corporation or the government, whose fees usually come out of the taxpayers pockets and benefit no one, except maybe a damn spotted owl, yet put millions in the pocket of the damn lawyer?
I can go and on, but the bottom line is...there are damn few ethical lawyers left, and those damn few are painted with the same brush as their lowlife's, bottom feeding POS colleagues and yet they refuse to police their own ranks and in so doing, continue to see the criticism mount.
I don't know about you, but I simply cannot see the worth in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against tobacco companies that accomplished nothing other than to put those billions in the pockets of the lawyers that argued the case.
Do you know of anyone that has personally benefited from the tobacco suits? And that is just one example. Care to discuss the attempts to put the gun manufacturers out of business?
The lawyer profession is now a running joke and few see it as anywhere near the respectable pursuit it once was. It provides fodder for many a wannabe comedian.
Lawyers are seen as "oily", "shyster", "legal thieves", "sharks", etc and it is their own damn fault.
End of discussion.