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Originally Posted by Ogre
Now that i think about it a little:
It's not so much the actual lawyers that are to blame, it would be the people who hire them.
The lawyer's are just doing their job, favorable or unfavorable. Unfortuntely, it's the lawyer's that are defending their clients. It, for the most part, wasn't the lawyer themselves who challenged someone else.
There's always someone who sues for a stupid reason (i.e. the Winnebago one). Let's blame them from now on. We'll refer to them as...umm...'dics'.
So, don't be a dic.
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You want someone to blame? Try the root of the problem --
CONGRESS! Hrm, let's see here ... bloated government, intentionally vague laws and an absence of reasonable tort reform. Does that sound like a friendly combination? Lawyers are just trying to interpret the law they are given; they work in a well defined, advesarial fashion -- for all that people complain, they just do their jobs. And sure, we have a litigious society; but what is wrong with people trying to get there due? And it's up to the courts to determine that "due" -- but the courts don't make law (well, some try awfully hard to, but that's another discussion entirely). It's congress; the courts/lawyers/clients are all confined to the laws congress makes. But for the most part, that is very little confinement ... blame the real source, crummy politicians.