Re: Law, Lawyers and Liberty (Was: College major advice)

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 00:00:06 MST


>From: Greg Burch <gregburch@gregburch.net>

> > From: Forrest Bishop
> > We need more lawyers like
> > we more cancer. No offense intended, just the facts, sir.
>
>A couple of final points. First, when someone breaches a contract with
>you, who you gonna call?

Exactly. Lawyers are like cops. Nobody likes them until they need one.
California has the highest number of lawyers per capita of anyplace in the
world. And, recent highly publicized law firm layoffs notwithstanding, very
few of them go wanting for work for very long. The "cancer," if you will,
is our litigious society, not the lawyers or their number. Blaming
litigiousness on lawyers is like blaming forest fires on firefighters.
Lawyers can't litigate with having clients (most of whom are *not* lawyers)
who are involved in litigation.

-Zero

"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)

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