“She was strikingly beautiful and had a great sense of humor. She was a hostess extraordinaire who had filled her New Jersey home with furnishings that she and her husband brought back from their world travels. But by the time she died, she was a virtual hostage of her alcohol- and drug-addicted son and his ex-convict girlfriend. The scene of fresh cut flowers had been replaced the stench of crack cocaine.”
So began a commentary I wrote about what happens when bad lawyers can shake down their clients and play the system with little concern about being challenged by other lawyers, let alone sanctioned by the very institutions whose job it is to stop them.
There is no way around it: The legal profession in America is a disgrace.
There are too damned many lawyers, too damned many incompetent and corrupt lawyers and too damned few ways of weeding out the bad apples. Oh, and by the way, lawyers have conspired to make their services necessary, if not mandatory, in order to do practically everything these days except take a crap.
Please click here to read more at Kiko’s House.