I just got my degree!:)
2006-10-24 08:11:10 · 12 answers · asked by NoName 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Congrats! Not all lawyers are frowned upon. Mostly criminal lawyers cuz they know their clients are guilty of rape, murder, etc... and they still defend them. But everyone seems to love lawyers when they need one.
2006-10-24 08:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by IMHO 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not hold them in contempt because they defend the guilty, or even some of the more pedestrian reasons most likely listed. I do find fault with convincing people they are hurt and should sue in order to make a living. It is like a sales person. But that is not my true contempt. I distrust law because it makes me distrust words. A lawyer uses words, my bread and butter, to conduct their business. The words are digested and manipulated to cover any of a variety of causes. It is taught in law school, it can be seen in watching a lawyer, watch how they think. The way they process information is finding ways to distort it. A lawyer uses their virsion of truth to obfuscate the reality they are expounding.
I distrust lawyers because they distrust the facts to tell the truth.
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2006-10-24 08:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just don't be an ambulance chaser or something similar. Earn your money respectably. A corporate lawyer or an attorney ad-litem.
2006-10-24 08:57:46 · answer #3 · answered by porkchop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because many act they are above the law and break it and many are dishonest. I have a lawyer friend who has shop lifted and gotten his hand slapped for it and committed adultery on his wife and gotten away with it. He isn't a very good example of what justice is.
2006-10-24 08:19:44 · answer #4 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have encouraged lawsuits for ridiculous sums of money causing our insurance rates to go sky high. The number #1 cause of bankrupcy in our country is now from inablilty to pay for medical bills from lack of AFFORDABLE health insurance.
Events in cities have had to cancel over the years because they can no longer afford insurance.
Our city had an attorney who was guardian for a mentally impaired boy who had inherited a large sum of money.
The money is gone now. The attorney snorted it up his nose.
2006-10-24 11:13:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of them seem to be willing to sue anyone for anything in order to make a buck. Our entire society has been corrupted by the fear of being sued.
Example: Little Johnny and Janey Jumpup who cant play tag anymore at recess (if they even still have recess) because they may get hurt and the school will be sued.
2006-10-24 08:13:07 · answer #6 · answered by J D 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because people are ignorant and they think that being a lawyer is all about standing in the court room defendin a person that is guilty. I hope to get into law school.
2006-10-24 08:13:34 · answer #7 · answered by Go Bears Go 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's because they are active participants in the adversarial system of justice which, in the US especially, permits them to use deception, and benefit from its use, in ways that are not permitted in most other aspects of our culture and our professional occupations. The whole process has infected the way our society now processes problems and advocates solutions to those problems in general, and lawyers are seen, justifiably so in my opinion, as the worst purveyors of the deceptive arts, and ironically, the best examples of how to outwit and undercut others as a winning strategy in life. So the net effect is to least trust lawyers as compared to almost all other professionals. In support of my contention here, I quote in part from am essay I found on the net, author unknown - it's a bit over the top, but is definitely food for thought:
"We owe the prevalence of deception in our society in large part to our legal system and it's basic raison d'être, the essence of which might be summed up as follows:
Our laws, whether criminal or civil, aren't really meant to prevent deception. They are meant to regulate it - to delineate and designate its proper use, not only in our daily lives,
but within the justice system itself. Which, particularly in the adversarial version of that system, includes the “proper” use of deception by the prosecution, by plaintiffs and defendants, and especially by their respective attorneys, by jury members, and by our judges.
Areas where this deception is regulated include, for example, the requisite suppression of certain evidence, such as hearsay testimony, informed opinions, and patterns of prior behavior. Deception may be applied in the selection of jurors for appropriate bias, lack of experience, lack of judgment, and commensurate gullibility, Deception is to be used by judges when deciding what the jury can hear and what they can't, what they can remember and what they must ignore, who they need to believe and who not to, which laws are to be applied - but not which penalties, and so on and on.
About the only deception not permissible in this system is perjury, the various and arbitrary definitions of which make its proscription virtually unenforceable. But if the end is to administer justice through the application of truth, the suppression of much of that truth on what has to be a largely capricious basis would seem to be counter-productive. And of course it is. And the imprimatur given to deception by this very process is to a large part responsible for the continued prevalence of deception today in all aspects of our culture."
I rest my case.
2006-10-24 09:02:37 · answer #8 · answered by Grist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just what the world needs...another lawyer :)
2006-10-24 08:14:26 · answer #9 · answered by roobs 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cos they're always finding a loophole in the law to exploit.
2006-10-24 08:13:55 · answer #10 · answered by Stormbringer 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋