[Mr. Ivey]

There are two kinds of lawyers, good and bad. The good ones protect and defend the innocent much like the police, fire fighters, and the armed forces, yet they do it in a court. These lawyers defend people who are accused of things they didn't do, or help fight for people's rights. They take up the cause of single mothers with children, against the dead beat dads, the keep children away from predators, and they fight for the rights of equality. And they never make the morning headlines nor do they make the 6 o'clock news. They are do gooders, they don't cause scandal or upset. The bad ones do. These guys bend the rules so much that if Dean says this is stratteling the line, they will find a loop hole somewhere, somehow. They are Johnny Cockren, and Mark Garragos, the represent those that you know have done wrong, yet the whezile into the minds of the people that you can not convict just because of a small piece of otherwise inconclusive evidence. And this is why layers are bashed. It only takes a few bad apples to spoil the whole bunch, or in the case of lawyers, ther reputation to society. You see when someone uses an annology of a lawyer they are not taking into consideration the Ken Pacciccacos of the word (Ken is the parent of a good friend of mine, he got arson charges droped from a young boy who was only involved because his brother was driving the car, and he was not old enough to drive, nor did he know what was going on). Nor are the Bob Rices considered, who fight for justice, and for free helped my mom and grandpa settle the assets of my grandmother when she passed. When the term lawyer is put into context in some of the posts mentioned, you are more substituting the term for the correct term of stickler of the rules, one who can not see in grey, it's either black or white. In some ways some lawyers have tainted their profession by defending the not so innocent, but go down to a local court house and go to the juviniale and domestic relations cases, there you will find men and women with a heart of gold, people that fight for what is right. Not bottom feeders that we so commonly associate with the term of lawyer. This is just my rant on lawyer bashing. I see it as not saying a lawyer is the target, but an alternate name for a target. I don't rightly know if that makes perfect sence, but I hope someone gets the gist of it.
ivey