Hi Ken:
> Trial lawyers and their clients have an obvious interest in portraying
> consumers as helpless and child-like, and rich corporations as robber-barons
> preying on the poor and weak. But why does the rest of society jump on that
> bandwagon? Because profit and wealth, once badges of achievement, are now
> considered prima facie evidence of malfeasance. The trail lawyers, in an
> attempt to enrich themselves, have launched a full-scale attack on the
> system of capitalism itself. But unlike a real capitalist, who enriches
> himself by serving others, the trial lawyer is a parasite - he achieves his
> success at the expense of others, and the degree of his success is the
> degree of destruction visited on society.
It is not the lawyers, but the client/plaintiff
who sees an opportunity for a free ride for the
rest of his life. Society wants to see the little
guy get the free ride and the deep-pocket corporation
pay through the nose for his misdeeds. I don't
really believe that the client/plaintiff motive is
punishment of the deep-pocket corporation, although
that theory may be the one used in court.
Ambulance-chasing lawyers do influence the client/
plaintiff in their path to the free ride, as the
lawyers, too, want a free ride.
(It seems to me that there is a prepronderance of
very nice cars that bear the wheelchair symbol.)
Best wishes for the New Year,
Rich
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