My lawyer was a louse from the get-go. She lied to me. Led me on. Never communicated a thing. Another fancy schmansy Chicago lawyer who did nothing but take my money. Who can you trust?
2006-08-27 08:06:22 · 20 answers · asked by Nancy K 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
By the way, my problem had to do with a malpractise suit that resulted in my mom's death. It was a nightmare that my idiot lawyer took advantage of.
And, the disciplinary boards are a bunch of lawyers blostering other lawyers like an old home network. You get no where.
2006-08-27 11:38:40 · update #1
i also had a lawyer take my savings and then barely represent my husband. he was severely misadvised, which of course we found out too late, and we are suffering for it. lawyers will do anything to make money, they need to pay off their loans from law school. finding one who actually really cares about your case is rare. they are mostly just another greedy, dishonest person who happened to pass a bar exam
2006-08-27 08:10:54 · answer #1 · answered by advicemom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do people buy Florida swamp land? They dream on, and the salesman remains mute.
If you don't inform yourself about, or get an advisor to help you choose, lawyers, you will pay too much and get too little, or nothing. Most lawyers are like car salesmen. And they are in business. If you want legal advice for free, you read the books and articles published by scholars, who are (mostly) lawyers out of love and not for money.
Every day there is, in one language or another on Y! Answers, a complaint that so-and-so lawyer was paid $X and s/he did nothing. Invariably it turned out that the person who paid the money was desperate, even panicky, and did not (or perhaps could not, in the context of an unexpected arrest) take the time to find out what services to buy, and to ask how they would be billed.
I always tell people to GO TO THE COURT and observe lawyers at work, whether in bankruptcy court, criminal court, landlord-tenant court, family court, or elsewhere. Lawyers charge from $200 to $1,000 and like professionals anywhere (customs brokers come to mind) they can itemize expenses and you still will be none the wiser.
Sorry that you were overcharged and underserviced. But without knowing more details, or even what branch of law was involved, I don't think either you are I have learned a lesson from the 10 minutes I took to draft and post this comment.
2006-08-27 08:15:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all lawyers are crooks but I know that a lot of people have had bad experiences with lawyers. When they become lawyers they do so knowing that even if someone has truly done something wrong and deserves to go to jail or someone doesn't truly deserve that money they are fighting for; they still have to do their best to fight for the very best situation in their clients best interest. They can not choose all their clients like they would want to because their firm usually tells them what clients they have to take or if they have their own firm they have to take the money makers first in order to keep their firm going financially. After awhile don't you think you would become numb to peoples actual needs in order to survive the guilt of helping people that don't deserve it. I know a few really good people that are lawyers and they have limited income and we all want that big buck. In order for a lawyer to do that they have to become numb and take the cases that they really don't want to and do their very best are they will be sitting in the seat they don't ever want to get into. Then they become the one getting sued and losing their license that they probably still owe for the schooling they received in order to get. I'm not condoning bad practices by lawyers but I can say that I can see why it seems there are more crooked lawyers than good ones that really care about their clientele.
2006-08-27 08:55:39 · answer #3 · answered by Janet J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell me, how would you be able to tell the difference? This is a silly question, What do you do, go into the office and say "are you a crook or an ethical lawyer" how are you supposed to know which is which. Come on now responders, lets have a bit of commonsense with this question, you know it cannot be a serious inquiry.
2016-03-17 03:23:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are too many lawyers and there are many crooks. Therefore there are too many crooked lawyers.
And it does not help that they know the law and how they think they can BEND it and still not always be caught.
2006-08-27 08:14:23 · answer #5 · answered by loligo1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your question presupposes that lawyers are over-represented among crooked people. I have seen no statistics to corroborate this statement. I would put this thought in the category of unfair stereotypes.
As to the one previous thoughtful answer given, it is wrong. The profession is actually quite aggressive about policing its own ranks. There are bar associations at both the national and state level, and both are very active in policing their ranks. Policing ranges from written sanction to disbarment.
2006-08-27 09:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Monkeydad 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Agressive about about policing it's own ranks"?? I paid five grand to a lawyer to protect me as my spouse got a lover and fearing that I would file, they filed. My lawyer never informed me as to what they were going to say. My wife was a psycho who was smashing our new house apart faster than I could put it up. They hired a fabricator lawyer liar who said a few words. My lawyer stood up and said...for five grand..."your honor, let's just let things be the way they are". The judge looked at me and said "off the property by five". Wify's lover moved in. Our girls ran away. One was taken if for suicide watch. I wrote to the bar and they said..."we have to have stringent proof that he did not represent you diligently." My wife sprayed me with the garden hose as I was trying to sleep in the van in the shop, trying to get away from her tirades. She threw and hit me with the teapot while I just stood there, preparing dinner. It was meant for my daughter who ducked and it hit me. This was after she thew a 1x4 and 2x4. Nothing was filed on my behalf. NOTHING. Diligent representation?? You are in delirium. Christopher Darden isn't quoted often when he said..."are you kidding,... half of them are borderline mental cases". The bar is the safe haven for lawyers. They have all power. Like in the fall of Rome,... your would be conquerors begin to look like liberators. A lawyer is a psychopathic liar who will lead you on and join with the opposing attorney to devastate you... usually the man. They're thinking you will keep throwing money at them, hoping to finally get justice. I've known one good attorney here who didn't go along with the game and she got run out of town by the "brotherhood" of thugs. Another one actually won a case for my now adult daughter against her mother but pretty soon he was "disciplined" by the local warlord firm who controls and arranges all cases. He has everyone throw the case. He always wins. So whoever gets him first wins. People are tripping over each other with fistfuls of money getting to him. He'll win the case. You lose no matter what. It's quick and fast. Lots of money for both lawyers and no work. "Very active in policing their ranks...?? You're out in dream land. Read AVVO. The only one positive comment you might rarely come across is the rosy self planted comment sent in ficticiously by the crook himself. Lawyers are delirious psychopaths who have no idea what is real anymore. They have only one cause..."Give me money"....
2014-07-10 15:41:20 · answer #7 · answered by cf_fills 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
threr are crooked people in every profession
lawyers must defend the guilty since the American Constitution
offers the right to every American citizen
2006-08-27 08:12:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
lawyer joke:
Q: if you were in a room with Saddam, Osama and a lawyer then someone gave you a gun with two bullets, who would you shoot?
A: The lawyer. And put two bullets in him for good measure.
2006-08-27 08:13:07 · answer #9 · answered by DainBramaged 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you ain't crooked,why do YOU need a lawyer?
2006-08-27 08:11:44 · answer #10 · answered by b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋