I’m sorry you had a bad experience during your divorce. Please don’t blame my entire profession because one lawyer and one judge were not doing a very good job (according to you).

Believe me when I tell you, we are not doing that well in today’s economy. First of all, there are too many people graduating from law schools every year and not enough jobs. Can you imagine having hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans and no job? It is funny that everyone thinks lawyers are so rich. Some are… but the majority of lawyers are working for between 45-80 grand a year. People just assume we are all rich because the media only talks about the rich lawyers.

Lawyers are not the “bane of our society”. In fact, society as we know it would not run without lawyers… You know, like the Supreme Court of the United States for example. Lawyers do things like protect people’s rights. Do you want to live in a society where your rights are unprotected?

The majority of lawyers I know are good, honest, hard working people. Of course there are lawyers who are dishonest scumbags. There are dishonest scumbags in every profession. From the looks of things, the lawyers involved in this case may be dishonest scumbags, but don’t equate their actions to an entire profession. It is no different for you to say “most lawyers are bottom dwellers looking for their next person/people/organization to screw.” then for you to say most African Americans are lazy. Both statements are ignorant and untrue stereotypes.

Lawyers are the bane of our society. They will cause our beautiful Republic to crumble from in.

I see no possible GOOD USE lawyers; most are bottom dwellers looking for their next person/people/organization to screw.

In today’s economy they are doing quite well as many of us try to figure how to make it another week. ( hoping these football people realize that)

Has anyone read or seen “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens? Jarndice and Jarndice was the case of a fortune that was contested until the lawyers litigated the fortune away.

“All I know is Batterman cost the NHL a full season. The NFL would be better off to sever his services and let him go work for the NBA with a glowing recommendation”

The NHL has never recovered from that mess, just ask them about their TV package. But the lawyers got paid.

To NOT live in a country like that is to live in Iran, or Syria, or any other sh*thole where democracy is stiffed.

The system works. Slowly, sure. Full of greedy INDIVIDUALS, sure. But it works.

I am attending law school, and even I hate attorneys.

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Curious — with a comment like that — why are you going to law school?

What made you decide to go?

What school are you at (if you don’t mind my asking)?

You act as if the players never negotiated with the owners. They have and they still are.

Of course, had the owners simply not fought against the union’s right to decertify, all parties would have saved money in legal fees.

Not to mention that the owners spawned all of this by opting out of the previous CBA early.

Oh, and let’s not forget that the owners could have kept negotiating without locking the players out, but chose to lock them out anyway.

It appears to me that D. Smith started this legal mess thinking like a lawyer, but has finally began to think like a labor leader. Now, there seems to be progress.

As for the other lawyers in this legal mess, it appears that some of the lawyers have put their financial interest in front of their clients business interest. They need to just let the parties make their deal. Explain the legal aspects to the clients, but let the clients make the deal.

As a lawyer, I disagree with jetfaninla when he says “Lawyers aren’t the problems. Lawyers get deals done. Clients are usually the problem, because clients often don’t want to make a deal.”

Sometimes, lawyers are the problem, sometimes they are the solution. Sometimes, clients are their own problem, sometimes they are their own solution. It varies.

I can trace my distaste for lawyers back to law school, too. I wouldn’t say that you hate lawyers despite the fact that you’re in law school, but because you are in law school.

If each side’s counsel is not being helpful to the process, the client is free to fire and replace them at any time.

Or choose not to.

There are no guarantees of continued employment for lawyers.

And past results are no guarantee of future success.

Wow you are incredibly misinformed. Do you just believe anything your insurance company tells you? Insurance companies are the reason insurance costs are so high. Not all of the companies are bad, but it is their job to take people’s money and then find reasons for the company to not pay claims. If you think lawyers have a strong lobby check into the insurance companies lobby. Then insurance companies use the excuse that lawyers are costing them money so they have to raise rates…despite the fact that insurance companies are one of the most profitable businnesses on the planet. This country needs insurance reform not health care reform!

Secondly, any lawyer who is actually caught hanging around hospitals trying to find cases…(ambulance chasing) will likly lose his or her license to practice law.

@ Hodag54501

Trust me, it is not all it is cracked up to be. Hundreds of thousands of dollers in student loans and most attorneys don’t crack $80,000 a year in salery.

@ marty2019

No I dont work for either side of the dispute… I wish I did…lol. Oh yeah, and I am on vacation.

2nd) Whomever said Gloria Allred should get involved is a genious. Who wouldn’t love to see a press conference with a player or owner in ragged clothes with Allred hovering over him and talking about him like he’s a poor kid from a third world country just to get her face on TV again.

The longer the dispute goes on, the more money the lawyers make. Consider that next time you are grimacing about the situation.

When I am reincarnated, I will get good enough grades to go to law school. Even a bad lawyer makes more money than a working stiff, and you are never are really held accountable for wins or losses. If you are fired from a firm, hang out your own shingle and still make more money than the greeter at WalMart.

There are a few lawyers that are trying to help people, but there are a whole lot more who are more interested in suing everyone in sight, slowly down our legal process and making as much money as possible.

Let’s be honest here, a lot of people go to law school not because they want to legitimately help people but because they see dollar signs.

Don’t worry about it. We’ll foot the bill for both law firms, when they raise the ticket prices.

IT’S WHAT THE FANS WANT – R GODELL!!

You lawyers get back to work. Stop posting on message boards when you’re supposed to be working.

A lawyer’s job is to fix situations that people either can’t or refuse to fix themselves. If people didn’t break the law, the world would not need defense lawyers or prosecutors. If people could trust each other, the world would not need lawyers to review contracts and litigate business disputes. If people could seperate from each other and equitably settle issues of child custody and property division, the world would not need divorce lawyers… If the people who are so critical of lawyers really sat down and thought about it, their problem is not with lawyers, but with the human race in general.

if the parties could get along so well, they wouldn’t need lawyers…any settlement or deal I have been involved in settled because of the lawyers not in spite of them…

without question legal bills can be high, good lawyers do charge a lot and are often worth it..

good post jetfaninla