Lawyers are really bad at gaming the system in their own favor. Whereas the AMA tightly controls the number of accredited medical schools to keep supply low and salaries high, the legal profession sued itself (law schools sued the ABA) to remove accreditation restrictions that would limit the supply of lawyers.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but law is one of the few remaining ethical professions. If lawyers acted more like the rest of the business world (e.g. the financial sector, small businesses), in pursuing their own self-interest, lawyers would be a lot better-off.
> law is one of the few remaining ethical professions.
No, it isn't, at least not in general. There are lawyers who enact their job as an ethical profession and we should be thankful for them. But there are lawyers who couldn't care less about being ethical who do pursue their own self-interest or unethical interests of others. Therefore it's not an ethical profession. Just one where you might find someone who cares about your rights.
I don't want to throw the same insults at each and every lawyer, because there are clearly some who don't deserve it but the majority of lawyers I had to deal with so far definitely deserved every bad name they're called.
I would be interested in some elaborations on this. I have a pop-culture-derived gut sense that lawyers are slimy good-for-nothings, but intellectually, I know better though I'm short on actual rationales.
rayiner|13 years ago
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but law is one of the few remaining ethical professions. If lawyers acted more like the rest of the business world (e.g. the financial sector, small businesses), in pursuing their own self-interest, lawyers would be a lot better-off.
tsahyt|13 years ago
No, it isn't, at least not in general. There are lawyers who enact their job as an ethical profession and we should be thankful for them. But there are lawyers who couldn't care less about being ethical who do pursue their own self-interest or unethical interests of others. Therefore it's not an ethical profession. Just one where you might find someone who cares about your rights.
I don't want to throw the same insults at each and every lawyer, because there are clearly some who don't deserve it but the majority of lawyers I had to deal with so far definitely deserved every bad name they're called.
yen223|13 years ago
I might actually believe that. One of the biggest champion of free speech and human rights in general in Malaysia is the Malaysian Bar Association.
saraid216|13 years ago