Michael,
There is a special subspecies of lawyer, called plaintiff's lawyers (read any John Grisham novel for the fantasy) who are, more than the rest of the bar, like a swarm of locusts. They are the 21st century hunter-gatherers (or vandal hordes) who simply live off the offerings of a free market system with pretty much a broken legal system (the jury system, our sick little tort system).
It defies all logic that it is allowed to continue, but the noble lawyer fighting for justice is a myth that the rich plaintiff lawyers perpetuate.
Other kinds of lawyers (securities, m&a, standard litigation, tax, real estate, etc.) are like any profession, you've got the great, the mediocre and the lousy. But the plaintiff's bar (often called PI or personal injury or "bloody stump" lawyers) are a breed apart.
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