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Originally Posted by My kids are cool
I would appreciate it if people could tone down the anti lawyer rhetoric. We are not horrible, evil people. Most attorneys have good ethics and good hearts. Most of us do not drag things out forever. Insurance defense attorneys are, by and large, unethical and do most of the dragging things out. And your neighbor's attorney, in reality, is an insurance defense attorney. It will be his homeowner's that covers the judgment. However, the vast majority of us do not represent insurance companies, and we get paid only when the case is done and we collect. Therefore, we have no incentive to drag things out.
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Sorry ((((MKAC)))), I should have been more specific to mention insurance defense attorneys and litigators. That was in my mind the time I wrote the post.
Civil attorneys have every reason to drag things out
Ad infinitum and
Ad nauseam - to protect their clients' - which are usually huge corporations, insurance companies, banks, etc. - interests.
They push the envelope as far as they can and are relentless. And why not? The system is so broken they can get away with it.
While I do agree that many attorneys have good hearts with some sense of values, most kids graduate law school with dollar signs in their eyes and go down from there. Or drop out all together. (Not their fault, of course. The cost of law school these days, the only way to repay the loan and come out ahead is to shark your way through the system. You have to, to survive. It's a nasty business)
Unless you are being paid on a contingency basis. Or are working as civil servants, I really have a very hard time seeing lawyers in a totally postive light.