a lawyer with an ego? who knew?

[acroyear]

For all the times that my lawyer and lawschool friends, especially here on LJ, keep saying "lawyers aren't like that", well, I run into one of these...

Respectful Insolence: File under: "Thermonuclear, The Stupid, It Burns":

"We have to redefine who we are: We are the most important people in America," Spence said. "There is no other profession in America that fights for freedom, that fights for what America is about, that fights for justice for ordinary people."

To make his point, Spence -- founder of the Trial Lawyers College, which trains lawyers to be more effective in the courtroom -- said to imagine that all of the doctors and healers somehow vanished.

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?" he asked. "We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."

I almost wonder if he was writing this to rehearse for a session in front of congress to ask the federal government for a bailout check?

Comments

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

Hubris.

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?" he asked. "We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."

I think I shed a tear or two over that. Thank you, Tick.

(Note: 'Cause I was laughing so hard I was crying. :)

YOU! Out of my profession!

[jocelyncs.livejournal.com]

Oh dear gawd. I do apologize. Everytime I hear about some lawyer doing some fine work in the pursuit of justice, some schmuck like this pops up.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Insert obligatory Heinlein/Lazarus Long quote about the day all the lawyers were shot being a holiday. ;-p

I'm glad the few that I know aren't such dipshits.

*stunned silence*

[spicyapplegirl.livejournal.com]

*blink blink*

*blink blink*

Take a page from the previous poster's book and insert appropriate John Crichton quote here: "Oh, you have got to be KIDDING ME!"

~Apple

wait...

[zammis.livejournal.com]

what?