First kill all the lawyers!!! Quote from “The Tempest”
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”. - (Act IV, Scene II). It was said by a bad guy who wanted chaos so that his evil boss could become king. Fact is, lawyers have a great deal of power and of course power corrupts. But without a regulated bar (insert drunken bar jokes here) non qualified and unregulated people would assume the roles of lawyers and have no one to check their behavior. The adversary system is terrible but like the jury system, balance of powers, and democracy, it’s better than all the alternatives.
Shakespeare scholar you are not.
From King Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2.