And I've got it better than Justin, at least I have a personal interest in my own legal work, I'm directly affected and thus motivated and of course I have a good grasp the the facts and don't have to go through an excruciating process of trying extract information and deduce the truth from my own side. Justin is right, there are much easier and more pleasant jobs than being a lawyer.
Really, I've represented myself many times and I usually do a better job than a hired lawyer would do. (I always win.) But I still envy those who can just pay someone else to do it. It is draining and stressful.
True, lawyers get paid too much. But that is only because people who can afford to pay them inflated fees prefer to get fleeced, rather than do their own dirty work.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas
At 2:57 PM -0800 27/1/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>Right, unlike us male lawyers, who never do any
>arduous, patient, and painstaking work. It's a real
>lark to have sort out, first, choice of law issues in
>an ill-pleaded complaint, then do parallel analyses in
>the law of three states of a dozen causes of action,
>finding cases that not only state the correct law but
>come out the same way as the way you want the court to
>come out, thewn make sure all your citations are
>correct and still good law, and then to copy-edit your
>motion a dozen times to remove embarassing typos.
>(This is what I have been doing this last week.) No, I
>sure wouldn't know about careful, exacting, often
>tedious work. Nope, a lawyer's life is a glorious
>cycle of song, a medley of extemporania. But I'm a
>man, and therefore terminally insensitive. Ignoble,
>too. Sheesh.
>
>jks
>
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