BDS wrote:
"Maxwell" wrote

I don't think that is really the case. It does indeed take people seeking
recovery to start the process. But I have never seen a lawyer get involved
with a case in the interest of justice. They pick and choose who they help
base on yeild, not justice.

Both the plaintiff and his or her lawyer share a portion of the blame, no
doubt. But the fact remains that none of it could take place without a
willing plaintiff no matter how many morally corrupt lawyers there are out
there. I guess it shows how quickly many of us are willing to throw
everything we know about what is right and what is wrong out the window if
the price is right.

BDS


I went through a long process where I gave the lawyer/plaintif equation
a lot of hard objective thought. In the end I came to the following
conclusion;
Although it's true that the plaintiff has to want the lawsuit, one has
to consider that in considering the plaintiff side of the equation, one
has the entire population to consider. It's reasonable to assume that
within that population there will be a considerable amount of potential
plaintiffs seeking unreasonable, trivial, and financially inspired
litigation.
In other words, on the plaintiff side, you will always have a willing
and unethical base seeking financial gain.

On the attorney side, we supposedly have an educated, ethical base,
steeped in honesty, integrity, and legal knowledge.

For a lawsuit to occur, regardless of the reason, if a million dishonest
plaintiffs approach the bench and seek litigation, it is the lawyer who
makes the litigation possible. You can have an unlimited supply of
people seeking a lawsuit, but it still takes that lawyer to file it.

In summation, I have long ago come to the conclusion that although I
completely recognize and accept an unethical plaintiff base, when it
comes to the relegation of responsibility for the terrible mess the
legal profession has become in the United States, one has to comclude
that it is incumbent on the lawyers not the population to control any
unethical plaintiff base and to me it has become perfectly clear that
the lawyers not only have failed to control this unethical base, but
have gone to extreme ends to encourage it and take active advantage of
it for their own financial gain.

To me, it's obvious that the ultimate blame lies with the lawyers.

--
Dudley Henriques