Cap'n Pickard
Let a thousand flowers bloom. Can't we respect dissenting opinions here and all just get along?
Personally, I think the insurance companies have done a wonderful job conditioning the public consciousness to view lawyers with disrespect. Folks revile lawyers until they need one, and then if they're lucky, they'll get one to whom they can turn in times of trouble.
Our system of civil and tort law puts a monetary value on injuries. Many folks think that value is too high when someone else is injured, and almost universally believe it to be too low when it comes to their injuries.
Our system is imperfect, but it beats the heck out of the alternatives. The legal system provides a fair process if not always a fair outcome - far better than solving disputes by picking up sticks and AK47s.
So, Cap'n Pickard, keep up the good work, after all, like the good judge in Alabama has noted, our system is based on a few venerable tenets, thou shall not steal, thou shall not kill, thou shall not bear false witness, and for those of you who have drooled over the pictures of my Mapleshade Clearview Double Golden Helix Plus speaker wires, thou shall not covet.
