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Attorneys and the law would
seem to go hand in hand. At least theoretically. However, upon closer examination,
attorneys and the law have very little in common nowadays, unless of
course you’re talking about the attorneys’ propensity for using the law to
their best advantage. If you look closely, you'll discover that the legal
concepts of right and wrong have sadly been replaced by the unwritten law
of who’s got the best attorney. After all, who ultimately makes the
rules that the rest of us have to pay, sorry - I mean play, by?
Politicians do, of course. Want to hazard a wild guess at what is the
single largest profession of politicians prior to them taking office? The legal
profession, of course. Let’s get one thing straight here
- the money is
always awarded to the client and not the attorneys involved, since it is
the client who has the injury or grievance. Attorneys keeping 30% to 60%
or more of any award or settlement has become commonplace and as a result
has spawned a wave of unprecedented growth in the personal injury field
(see Personal Injury Lawsuits and Legal Information).
WARNING: Dealing with lawyers may be hazardous to your health -
both in financial and emotional terms. If you have already dealt with a
shady lawyer (double negative?), you may have sudden flashbacks upon
reading the Unwritten Laws of Lawyers.
As a precaution, you might want to have a few aspirins handy. Attorneys, by clogging the courts with millions of frivolous lawsuits and
dragging case for years on end, have made litigation a very expensive
proposition in America. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit - win,
lose or draw - the attorneys get paid. Always. Attorneys by and large, even the good attorneys who play by the rules and conduct themselves in an honest and forthright fashion, are reticent to speak out about the rogue attorneys who wantonly abuse the legal system and give the legal profession such a bad name. Rather than risk being
blackballed or ostracized by their attorney cronies by crying foul,
attorneys hold their nose and turn a blind eye towards the nefarious
shenanigans of the less than honorable attorneys in their midst. This
plays right into the hands of the dirty dealing attorneys. America’s legal system by design is very one-sided in nature, with the
attorneys pulling most of the strings. An attorney can accuse
you of everything under the sun, trash your reputation and drag your good
name into the dirt. And all you can do is sit there and watch it happen. Attorneys, depending on what side of the fence their clients are
sitting, find the concepts of right and wrong somewhat troublesome and
annoying. They prefer to play in the gray areas of the law, where these
nebulous concepts don’t get in their way. Even if you haven’t done anything wrong (after all, what’s right and wrong got to do with the law?), you can still get hammered by a lawsuit. And once you’re hit with a lawsuit, you have no choice but to fight the lawsuit or you lose by default. Fighting lawsuits in America is a very expensive proposition indeed. Attorneys fees of $100, $200 or even more per hour are not uncommon - and the hours can mount up quickly. A
frivolous lawsuit filed against you by an attorney representing someone
who holds a grudge, is mad at you or is just looking for you to toss them
a bone, can land you smack dab in the poor house. Does anyone see a problem
here? Not the attorneys, that’s for sure. Again, winning in court (or settling out of court) does not necessarily have anything to do with being right. Frivolous lawsuits, by nature, are lawsuits that are filed for no other reason than to extort money from innocent victims. Since attorneys know full well that many
people who are sued will elect to settle rather than go through the
hassle, time and ungodly expense associated with litigation, many
attorneys file lawsuits that have nothing to do with being “in the right.” Personal responsibility is the bane of a large number of attorneys who seek to make victims of us all. The more people who eschew personal responsibility and are willing to blame everyone else for all of their troubles, the better it gets for the attorneys. Lawyers have long known
that these “point the finger at the other guy”
individuals make super clients. The unwritten law dictates that if there is a way for the attorneys to
take a trivial matter and blow it up into a class action lawsuit where the
really big bucks can be made, then the attorneys are obligated to do so
(click here to check out our class action lawsuit update
section). Attorneys don’t want anyone messing with the way the legal system is set
up right now. With the cards so heavily stacked in their favor, who could
hardly blame them?
Arguing with
a lawyer is like mud wrestling with a pig: after a while you realize that
the pig is at home in the mud. Here's wishing you a lawyer free day!
Greg Hickman Click here to return to Power of Attorneys Home Page.
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