| It depends. Lawyers, along with doctors occupy the top of the "prestige professions" bracket. As in, ask someone to name respectable occupations off the top of their head and those two will be right at the top of the list. This makes them a conspicuous target.
However, there's a difference. When you see a doctor and you're really sick, there's a feeling he's helping you through it. And when you get better from an illness, there's generally some feeling of euphoria at feeling healthy again which is normal because a body likes being healthy.
Being involved in any sort of legal action, however is generally comparable with being buggered with a large dildo, sans lubricant. And your lawyer, rather than seeming like the remedy, just seems like part of the process. This is made worse by the fact that there's always some lawyer in the employ of someone else (or the state) who is making your life difficult.
And at the end of it, it's not so much euphoria as relief that it's over, while you then go about the bitter business of salvaging what's left of your life. Few people come out of a legal action better for it. At best you get a restitution for being wronged in the first place.
As a result, lawyers are always associated with profoundly negative life experiences. Add to that the whole "tall poppy syndrome" and the stereotype of lawyers being obscenely rich (which is a fallacy because it's normally only contract lawyers who make huge amounts of dosh) and the green eyed monster raises it's ugly head.
I won't confess any great fondness for lawyers. Admittedly I can sympathise somewhat because it's certainly a career path I've pondered (I decided against it because there's too much competition and it's too 'Nation Specific'). However, I just have a big problem with people who hate others for no reason other than they're being more successful than them. |