David Giacalone of ethicalEsq? has some reasonable thoughts about why lawyers are so poorly regarded. He starts in a familiar place:
"Lawyers, Liars, Bah!" That's what my immigrant, blue-collar Grandpa said, when I told him thirty years ago I'd be joining my twin brother as a student at Harvard Law School. Three words, and he never brought up the subject again."He goes on to examine why it is that people distrust lawyers --except their own lawyer, whom they trust in the way that one trusts a gun that one is pointing at someone else.
This reminds me of speaking with my late grandfather a few years back.
He said, "I'm happy that you're doing someone you're interested in. Just don't become a litigator, because we'll have to shoot you."
Posted by: mr. poon | October 09, 2003 at 01:46 PM