CB, my interactions with lawyers have been when my parents took a case to the Supreme Court in the 1960s, with property transactions, with a landlord and tenant case in Ottawa in 1977, with a will or two, and this and that, with a commercial operation by BP Oil with the Liquid Fuels Trust Board in NZ, with a recent NZ tax investigation. Not a lot of dealing and I found the dealings usually less than satisfactory, or ethical, or pleasant, and absurdly expensive. Over the decades, I've seen a bit up close and personal.
I get the impression that lawyers are so imbued with the legalisms, that they consider ethics and human relations irrelevant to their dealings. The motto is "First, get people fighting, then go for the cash!"
Getting the cash seems to be their almost obsessive drive. Their documentation of their costs are a joke, though no doubt essential. If I'd carried on like that, "to photocopying said piece of paper" I could have run up a huge amount of "costs" too.
Lawyers shouldn't whine about attitudes to them. They are well compensated for the general lack of respect by the cash they get. Which is not to say all lawyers are like that. Heck, some of my best friends are lawyers.
Hmmm, I'm tempted to delete this as it's just a small part of my overall impression and it's on the negative side a bit more than is justified. But I'm paying by the minute so my quality control will have to suffer.
Of course people in airports aren't sheep. It is just when they are dealing with the evil wolf pack that they adopt the sheep posture.
Mqurice
PS: I am not saying you or any particular lawyer falls on any particular point on a greed and malevolence scale of 1 to 10. |
