I am a big fan of lawyers. Lawyers are why you can rest assured the police won't break down your door at 3 a.m. and take you to jail for no reason. Lawyers are why you will not rot there without charges or trial.
Talked to a lawyer at a dinner last evening -- he even has a doctorate of some sort -- and had to defend him against a woman who started the usual bitching about lawyers. Defensive, he was shocked when I chimed in. People are so narrow-minded. Presumably this woman had to pay a lawyer to represent her in something and she thought she had paid too much. Well, here's a bulletin: lawyers uphold the law, lawyers ensure all Canadians are treated equally, lawyers keep dodgy judges in check, lawyers mean the rule of law...rules.
But I get it. There are bad lawyers, like ambulance chasers, frivilous litigators and crooked immigration lawyers. But that is the price we pay to ensure we have the other lawyers who work to keep us free. Just as I blogged a while ago about needing one stream of tax dollars to cover politically-motivated waste, so we also need a stream of bad lawyers to be sure we still graduate the good ones.
Be thankful we have lawyers.
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