Do you like lawyers?

Question

I have found a liking in certain lawyers because well they are SO cool. They got the facts down, the evidence, the pie charts.. everythinng! They're not that bad... they actually have a sense of realistic data from life. Not bad at all.. not bad at all, im impressed

Well im still young, i dont plan on marrying a lawyer or anything.. i know most of them have to do some dirty work in order to win a case so i wouldnt like to get involved with men like that. However, what it took for them to become a lawyer is what impresses me as of now.. dont know about tomorrow, lol

Answer 1

I think like most people I like the ones that are working with/for me and hate those that are working against me.

Answer 2

Some very, very narrow views of what lawyers do are expressed in some of the above answers. Criminal and family law practitioners, indeed, litigators in general, are a relatively small percentage of attorneys. And the situations described above seem to substitute anger toward the attorneys instead of toward the persons who are really at the root of the problem---the litigants themselves, in the child custody matter. $50 for 20 minutes of phone calls is actually cheap. And many attorneys charge way more than the amounts mentioned above. The criminal defendant answer above might be referring to an overworked, underpaid public defender. In any event, you don't have to take the deal. I am aware of a partner at a national firm who bills $700 an hour for transactional work. The attorneys you mention who are billing $200 an hour and who deal with ungrateful clients in the child custody feud would probably rather bill $700 an hour to transactional clients. (The partner I mentioned also charges $1 an hour to an elderly lady client.) Family law at the low end is thankless. If you are going to judge an entire profession based on one personal experience (in which you probably brought a lot of animus to the table to begin with) or based on your perception of a small segment of the entire profession, then I suggest that you are worse than those you criticize. Most attorneys are not involved in adversarial proceedings. They do transactional work, render advice, opinion letters, and other non-litigation services. And there are many different kinds of litigation and practice areas as well. For example, how about patent lawyers? Licensing and franchising? Environmental? Your little criminal cases and your contentious little child custody cases are but specks on the legal landscape. Important to you, yes. But not the reflection of an entire and very diverse profession.

Answer 3

I do NOT like lawyers. My husband has been involved in a custody dispute on and off since 2003. We have custody and have HAD custody since Thanksgiving of 2004...but every few months his ex-wife bums some money, gets an attorney and tries to take us to court with a bunch of ridiculous claims to try to regain custody again. Every time she does this we must have an attorney because the general view is "if you don't have one you lose." I think the complete total we have spent to date is around $50,000...That could have been a decent start on college educations for our children.

Our attorney charges $40 to answer an email. $200 an hour to appear in court and $50 for 20 minutes of making phone calls...and of course there is always the $5000 retainer 2-3 times a year every time something comes up and that 5000 bucks dwindles away in a couple of months.

Whatever happened to people COMMUNICATING? Nope...just get an attorney to say the same crap YOU should be saying for yourself...

If attorney's charged less I would have a better opinion of them...but to be honest, I'm tired of getting legally raped...(financially raped, but you get my point.)

Answer 4

They act so "cool" because they think they are above the law. They can actually break the law to get a conviction - they are mostly hypocrates as they should be in prison along side the other guys they frame or sacrifice to the court.

Lawyers take a HYPOCRITICAL OATH ... wherein they vow their servitude to the court - NOT THEIR CLIENTS ... it is the lawyer and attorney's job to get the client to feel like he is really blessed he did not go to prison for 35 years - and instead only have to pay 23,000 bucks and be on probation for 12 years ... BECAUSE HE WAS INNOCENT - BUT; SURELY THE JURY WOULD OTHERWISE CONVICT HIM AS THEY WANT TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM ....

Take the deal man - because all the evidence in the world won't help you in this one ... yeah, judge knows you are INNOCENT ... - but; that jury wants blood ... yeah, judge knows you will be lying to him when you say you are innocent - BUT ... the judge just wants you to get out of here alive and not go to prison - but ... the jury don't see it that way - it's your decision ... after all - once you get off probation - you won't even have it left on your record ...

Get the picture?

That is why I am not a liar ... skewes me ... lawyer or attorney - I just eat them for lunch.

Hope this got the mist off your glasses.

Peace;

Aintmyfault

Answer 5

Lawyers are great when you need one. I just wish they didn't cost so much.

Answer 6

Generally, no, I don't like lawyers; and I am one. Go figure.

Answer 7

Yes I do!!! They are wonderfully cunning game and taste just marvelous when roasted with garlic and chives!!!!!!

Answer 8

What do you call a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?

Answer 9

It depends if they are your prosecuting lawyer or your defending lawyer...

Answer 10

I'm a paralegal, so I guess so. There are good ones and bad one just like everything else.