Imagining Life Without Lawyers

A cop does wrong and he/she can never be employed as a cop again. A lawyer does wrong including committing felonies and they lose their liicense for a few months. Same for Docotrs. Quite a doubloe standard. The same applied to one president Bill Clinton who lied under oath and never lost his job. In fact, dems and their supporters stood in lock step with him. That is why I will never vote for a democrat again. Just look at Daschle and the rest. At least when someone in the GOP does something wrong the GOP asks them to step down. Another double standard.

What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

Life without lawyers? John Edwards comes to mind. A white-shoe lawyer once told me the secret of his success - get the dumbest 12 people in the jury box you can voir dire - then make your final presentation wiping your eyes with a piece of onion concealed in a handkerchief until you look like a Nasonex commercial. When the jury's tears begin flowing like horse droppings, end it with a dramatic finale and you've bagged them.

Why is it that people always remember the Plaintiff lawyers who pursue the ridiculous lawsuits, but never the Defense lawyers trying to fend off the ridiculous lawsuits?

There are two sides to this process, people. Hug your attorney today.

In discussing the increase of litigation, increase in warnings of obvious dangers etc., we must not only blame plaintiff lawyers. The US has turned into a country of people who must always place blame on someone or something else. An incident must always be someone's fault in the eyes of most these days. Kid falls off the slide at school? Sue the manufacturer, the distributor, the retailer and the school for failing to supervise the kid. You do not get a beneficial result from a medical procedure performed in an effort to help you? Blame the doctor, or the manufacturer of the medical device. This need to blame created the increased ligitation, the increased costs of defendants in defending same (passed off to you, the consumer), and the increase of regulations and warnings protecting us from our own stupidity. And yes, I am an attorney. And yes, my practice focuses on defending those sued by plaintiffs. And yes, I have heard more times than I can count "I sued because I got hurt." What did the defendant do to cause your incident? "But I got hurt." Right.

Let's pass a law to require that all laws be reasonable.

Dahlia, if you are too stupid to distinguish between the lawbreakers in the Bush administration (or any administration for that matter) and litigation, or the threat of litigation, resulting in banning children running at recess you are to stupid to write about the subject at all. Using your logic in this regard we should have even more lawyers -- perhaps simply assigning one lawyer to stay by the side of every non-lawyer so we could really be free. This article is one of the most egregious examples of fatuous sophistry I have seen in years. It may come as a surprise to you that common sense and justice can live side-by-side. In fact, if they don't live side-by-side then neither can exist. If blind justice in the absence of common sense had existed, Solomon would have simply have divided the baby been done with it all.

Well I recently checked the yellow pages in the local phone book, fully 20% of the yellow page ads are attorneys.
One thing I have noticed is government is picking up those who could not pass the bar and now the IRS auditors are mostly failed attorneys rather than tax and accounting people, should you ever be audited you will know what I mean.
One signature characteristic of attorneys is the ability to keep an issue alive for an incredible amount of time, after all he may not have a new case for a long time given the stiff competition, and the end result is most people cannot afford legal representation leaving them essentially out of the system.
But the huge number of laws? A very wise man once noted the government has 30,000 laws just to enforce ten. And that was said some 50-60 years ago.

One does not increase the freedoms of the chickens by simply lessening the restrictions placed upon the wolves. Ordinary citizens no longer even enjoy the minimal protection of a contract when dealing with a vendor; since each one has language in place which cause the purchaser to void his own rights. Of course the company in question does relegate any rights at all. All of the over regulation is geared toward making the ordinary citizen or consumer even more powerless than they already were. Until we are able to exist on a somewhat more even keel, I see no chance of a more optimistic economic outlook. The governments and businesses have quite literally strangled the golden goose (us).