I will somewhat disagree that being a lawyer was the PRIOR career choice. There are plenty of lawyers in politics that have never practiced law of any kind.

What other profession prepares one to better lie, cheat and steal .......................legally?

Only partially true. One party is primarily represented by lawyers. The other is not. :yikes: Actually the last numbers I saw are 81 Republicans and 123 Democrats in Congress are attorneys. No wonder we're so screwed up. :(

It is true to say, most politicians seem more interested in their own well-being and egos than they are worried about citizens in general. :(

Lord Snow,

Oldfart’s, yours, and my posts are not mutually exclusive.

Also, I believe that the evidence shows that the ovewhelming majority of lawyers are honest, decent people.

You're surely not including those that go into politics. I think that's against their rules (being honest and decent. :( ):yikes:

:faint:

Jurisprudence and Politics are different career paths, and attract different people.

LOL! Yep.

There are honest and good lawyers. It's just the 99% that give the good ones a bad name.

I’m going to go way out on a limb here, and guess that you have had few truly satisfying experiences with the members of your Bar Association. :rolleyes:

Will all citizens who are not part of or connected to (not receiving a livelihood directly or indirectly, in part or in full) from our legal system and had interface that was a positive experience and effect for them, please raise your hand. :cool:

Will all citizens who have had interface with our legal system that was NOT a positive experience and effect for them, please raise your hand. :line::line::line::line::line::line::line::line::l ine::line:

To your first question, PF, I think I see one ... way back there at the back of the crowd ...


... no, wait, I was mistaken, he was just picking his nose. :(


To your second question ... I do believe the whole assembly has their hands up.

The wise among them seek professional advice about legal issues.

Of course. The 'advisors' created the 'legal issues' with such intent.

Legal issues crop up all the time. Day in, and day out. It is in the nature of any human society for people to have serious disagreements. When sufficiently difficult or intractable, those disagreements are resolved by a social convention know as Law Courts.

One refers medical matters to those trained in that discipline, to engineers when the physics problems are hard, and to scientists when the engineers don't know. What is it about difficult social issues that people think they are entitled to be sages?