Reply #6: I'm not trying to discourage you

[teryang]

...there is nothing better than succeeding in your own business. The steamroller strategy of the big corporations is putting many firms on the ropes. They will spend 2 million defending a case rather than spend $150,000 to settle. The defense firms who specialize in this service are undercutting themselves by wiping out the plaintiff's bar. The number of plaintiff's firms with the wherewithal to actually try a products liability or medical malpractice case competently, for example, is decreasing in relative terms. An experienced trial attorney informed me that he doesn't believe he can stay in business unless he does class actions. State bars, and local government are paying wages that are pathetic. This isn't because there are too many lawyers, it is because of budget constraints. Older more experienced lawyers are put out to pasture because they cost too much.

I don't think there are "too many" lawyers. There are actually not enough practicing attorneys. But republican controlled governments aren't going to hire them because they regulate industry, enforce the law, prosecute the guilty and protect the innocent. Justice is becoming perfunctory, a baby being drowned in the bathtub. A indigent person accused of a first degree felony can expect 30 minutes of legal research and strategy from his public defender. The prosecutor on the other side is bugeted for one hour against the public defender. This allocation is pitiful on both sides. Lord knows what innocent children who are being abused can expect from the system. I was recently asked if I would mind getting publicly rebuked by a judge on a regular basis as a part of the job for neglect by the human services department. I was told that the staff wouldn't take timely instructions and that there wasn't enough resources to train personnel or do the job right every time. It was another 30 minutes or less situation to decide the fate of children.