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Originally Posted by Cloud
... the good ones outweigh the bad.
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Some smart guy a while back said something to the effect that: all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
So all the Good Lawyers who fail to reign in their unethical professional colleagues are, in my opinion, just as guilty. I mean, if anybody can make it hard for someone to do something its a lawyer. So the inaction of the so-called Good Lawyers is especially troublesome.
Until the good ones step up to the plate and enforce their own code of ethics then they might just as well be bad. Which brings us back to Bruce's original point.
I have an idea for an ad campaign too. It goes something like this:
Shakespeare: "...let's kill all the lawyers."
Stand up comic: "...what to you call tossing 500 lawyers overboard?"
Narrator: "...the legal profession is broken. It was broken by the very people who built it. Let's disbar every attorney in the United States and make all of them re-apply to a citizen's board for the right to practice law. That way, all the good lawyers who apparently are content to let their legal brethren rape the legal system for their own personal enrichment can continue to serve the public and at least allow us to do the job they don't have the nads to do themselves."
Then we can start a pool. How long before Beestie is served with an injunction against airing the ad? I'll go first: 13 seconds.