When a person or groups of people are asked what word or words do they associate with lawyers? Generally you will get a negative response. Words such as snake-oil salesman, liars, or the devil may come to mind. Be that as it may, my personal opinion of them is that they are no worst than the rest of humanity. Most of them, I feel, are all about the money instead of helping the individual or individual that come to them for assistance. However, love them or hate them you cannot fault them for making a living. Of course they are going to be self-serving but aren't we all when we are providing a service for someone else. I think “we” (and by we I mean society as a whole) portray lawyers so negatively has nothing to do with them as a person (although some warrant our loathing) as it does with the law itself. The law is what is flawed and deserves our hate. It allows for murderers, thieves, drug dealers and all other criminal deviants to go free at the expense of the innocent. The law has many loop wholes imbedded in it that allows (in some cases) the innocent to get prosecuted and the guilty to go free. It allows for the meek to continually to suffer at the hands of the wicked (especially where big business is concerned). Lawyers are merely the instrument. You cannot hate the drum because the drummer is bad. As with anything in life we as humans need something or someone to blame when things get screwed up. Lawyers have a real tough job interpreting the law; a job the rest of would find extremely boring and monotonous. So I pose these questions to you (the reader). Do lawyers take on cases they know they can win or at least get recognized for? Do lawyers manipulate the law in order to win a case? Are they in it for the money? The answer to all these questions is “Hell Yeah”. But I submit who among us isn’t doing the same thing in our daily lives.
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