[tivodan1116]

It's easy to justify the need for something when you are in TOTAL control of its creation and use.

Really? I was under the impression that lawyers were funded by clients, who generally pay them of their own free will for services rendered. Lawyers are supported by magical evil slush funds? Cool, I guess I won't worry about advertising then.

And the fact that there ARE lawyers who work for people their numbers are not sufficient to color over the black eye the legal community has given itself. Or to put it another way, just how much good is it to provide free legal services to people when those providing the service are part of a group which caused the NEED for the services to begin with.

Oh, so some lawyers are good, but some are bad, based on your morals? So, like, personal injury lawyers are good because they represent the "little guy", but insurance defense lawyers are bad? Oh, no wait, that's not PC to say. Insurance defense lawyers are "good" because personal injury lawyers are ambulance chasers. Do you see how stupid it is to judge a profession based on your limited morals?

I don't see how lawyers created the "need" for their services. This is like saying doctors, by inventing medicines, created the "need' for doctors.

I don't understand what is wrong with having experts in the law, just like having experts in everything else? I could repair my own car, or drive my own limo from the airport, or heal my own sickness, or design and assemble my own television. The reason I don't is because there are experts who are available for a price who are much better at this than me. You two are acting like "gee, if only courts were warm fuzzy places, everyone would just represent themselves and lawyers would cease to exist"

Of course the argument will be made that these lawyers are different people, subject to varying degrees of skill and honesty. However, they are ALL part of the same organization which leads one to correctly suppose "the bar" is not some legal deity from which all things good and right originate.

Yeah! So let's prosecute all doctors when one of them touches a patient! Let's send Osborne a bill because a limo driver knocked a mirror off my wife's car! Let's send all black people to jail because some of them commit crimes! Let's kill all the Jews because thousands of years ago a couple of them said to kill Jesus!

It is more like a lawyers union than anything else.

Oh, so other people are allowed to have unions, but when lawyers do it, it's wrong?

By the way, would you care to tell me what "organization" ALL lawyers are a part of?

I suppose I'm just not a big fan of lawyers.

Sorry, I'm not a big fan of uninformed people spouting off about things by repeating myths and stereotypes.