[lbo-talk] Kill all the lawyers

[Marta Russell]

>Amen! I spent the morning in court today, where I lost my trial over 
>unpaid rent. The lawyer for my landlords is actually pretty nice and 
>helpful, but it sucked to watch all the other lawyers in action. I 
>really loved the case before mine, which I call the "Case of the 
>Overcharged Copying," which involved a law firm suing a company that 
>had the balls to charge them $1 a page for copying some papers.
>
>One thing I've learned from the last three months of fighting in the 
>courts is that if everybody simply bothered to show up whenever they 
>were subject to legal proceedings, the entire system would shut down 
>because of the overload. The legal system functions because lawyers 
>show up for cases and defendents don't (at least in small claims 
>court).
>
>Chuck0
>

In California lawyers aren't allowed in Small Claims court.  We lost 
a case for our condo assn against a former management company that 
was corrupt to the hilt because the JUDGE was partial to the 
management company.  We needed a good lawyer to defend us against a 
bad judge.

Judges can run over citizens who does not know how to legally stop 
them.  At least lawyers hold judges to some accountability.  Our case 
involved a handyman who the old (fired) management company hired to 
stop leaks in our 20+ year old roof by putting rocks on the roof! We 
suspect kickbacks and all sorts of wrongdoing, maybe even from our 
former board as well.  That is hard to prove, however.  What we 
wanted was to show the handyman solution wasn't a solution. The rocks 
cost the HOA $2,100 and did not work of course. We recouped nothing. 
JUDGES are just as corrupt if not more so.

Marta
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