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The fact is, many attorneys do personal injury not as their primary income source, it's just something on the side to supplement the main part of their practice, a windfall profit from a personal injury case would probably be like winning the lottery in terms of statistical probability.
The fact is, many attorneys do personal injury not as their primary income source, it's just something on the side to supplement the main part of their practice, a windfall profit from a personal injury case would probably be like winning the lottery in terms of statistical probability.
What are you even talking about? There are entire law firms that specialize in personal injury law.
I don't see how they sleep at night when they defend rapist, murderers, or killers when they know in their heart the person is guilty.
They sleep quite well knowing that even you don't want to live in a country where the state can throw you in jail without having to bother proving the charges against you despite your lambasting their role in protecting your civil liberties.
I think that is an unfair criticism. Everyone is entitled to a defense against prosecution; and to say that lawyers should be castigated for serving in that role belies the fact that neither you nor I sit in judgment of the accused. (This was rather starkly shown in the recent Zimmerman case; for whether he was guilty as charged was not a matter of public opinion, but of evidence adduced at trial.)
I don't see how they sleep at night when they defend rapist, murderers, or killers when they know in their heart the person is guilty.
Perhaps, if you ever read the Constitution and took notice where it says in the Sixth Amendment that a person has a constitutional right to counsel, you might understand a little better what lawyers do.
I know it is a popular sentiment among some to say "how can lawyers sleep, blah blab, blah...". However, maybe if you lived in a police state where government told you when to wake up, when to brush your teeth, and when to go to bed you might understand that this amorphous concept of "freedom" actually means something.
I don't expect people with your opinion will ever go away. What I wish is that those who live in America would at least take just a few minutes and read the Bill of Rights that is attached to our Constitution. These are rights that are apply to everyone. You don't get to pick and choose who gets them and who doesn't. That's what makes them rights.
Honestly, when I hear questions like these, I wonder if they have simply stopped teaching Civics in the public schools. Maybe all the kids are day dreaming about sex when the teacher covers these issues?
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Perhaps, if you ever read the Constitution and took notice where it says in the Sixth Amendment that a person has a constitutional right to counsel, you might understand a little better what lawyers do.
I know it is a popular sentiment among some to say "how can lawyers sleep, blah blab, blah...". However, maybe if you lived in a police state where government told you when to wake up, when to brush your teeth, and when to go to bed you might understand that this amorphous concept of "freedom" actually means something.
I don't expect people with your opinion will ever go away. What I wish is that those who live in America would at least take just a few minutes and read the Bill of Rights that is attached to our Constitution. These are rights that are apply to everyone. You don't get to pick and choose who gets them and who doesn't. That's what makes them rights.
Honestly, when I hear questions like these, I wonder if they have simply stopped teaching Civics in the public schools. Maybe all the kids are day dreaming about sex when the teacher covers these issues?
Do people have a constitutional right to be over-billed by lawyers? To have legal clerks and assistants order out pizza and other food and assign the bill to some client without the slightest justification? All of which has happened on frequent occasion in at least one law firm in Boston according to someone I knew who worked there, and innumerable anecdotes over the years from other firms?
The topic here is ethics, not the right of lawyers to practice law.
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