"DE" wrote in message
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: .... You make all the wrong assumptions about personal-injury lawyers.

You are correct, but you are making a rational response to an irrational,
vitriolic, whining mind-fart. Just let the air clear because neither of us
will be able to change anyone's mind or argue anyone else down. Lawyers
have always been (and probably will always be) the scapegoats for the
general public's tolerance of inequity.

Juries ... you know, the people who are supposed to know what justice is ...
are the ones who hear the cases, award the outrageous verdicts, and let the
murderers loose on the street. But the general public doesn't blame the
juries who set the awards or who let the OJ's go. It doesn't blame the
judges who uphold the judgments. It blames the lawyers who ask for the
awards. By its own refusal to accept responsibility for the way the legal
system is, it empowers lawyers far beyond the influence they ought to be
able to wield. Yes, lawyers love to be demonized. It gives them power.

Take the idiots here, for example. None of them would willingly serve on a
jury. They are too busy. They would be the first in line to tell the
judge, "I can't be on this jury. I have a business to run and customers to
service. I don't have the time. I have travel plans with my family, and
besides, I have medicine to take and doctors to see." Any excuse will do.
Anything to keep from doing their civic duty.

These same idiots, if injured, will be the first to seek out "the smartest,
meanest, son-of-a-bitch lawyer" they can find. They don't care about
fairness. They want the largest amount of monetary damages they can squeeze
out of the defendant that hurt them. They DON'T CARE about fairness, and
who do they blame when jury verdicts are too high or when plaintiff's claims
are silly (except for theirs, of course)? The lawyers!

The general public created the very "pond scum" they hate. The problem with
our legal system looks back at us from our mirrors, but it's too difficult
to take responsibility for how our government operates. It's much easier to
point fingers and spout popular tripe. In truth, WE are the pond scum
because we tolerate the way things are.

David