Lawyers and Legal Theater

A General Observation of Attorneys: Corrupt, Money Laundering and Parasitic

Lawyers generally are not to be trusted. In the years when my father was practicing as an attorney- over three decades past and his father before him in the 1950s and on-I believe that there was still some semblance of legal ethics. Still some regard for the actual law- not just finding ways to break it without being caught.
Family court lawyers- I’ve seen one openly commit perjury. In order to win a case and harm a child, an infant. The perjury was never addressed, let alone punished.
Attorneys may have one time been useful or valuable to people who needed an expert on the law but now- they are corrupt and greedy actors- often robbing their own clients and breaking laws for more money.
I didn’t give it much consideration before- how they demand money up front- and there is pretty much no recourse if they don’t do their part. I’m not even talking about losing a case while making a genuine effort, either.
One attorney that I encountered- he did indeed have an entire network of other “experts” that he claimed necessary to the case and of course, required a kings ransom up front.
This same attorney swindled his clients family out of tens of thousands of dollars by lying about what he was doing and he ultimately and purposefully lost the case. Once he had destroyed the case, the clients emotional health and her potential to fight back- he turned right around and sued her for more money. Since she refused to pay him for the services he claimed he rendered but didn’t. He counted on the fact that when he sued his former client- she would be too upset and in shock about the loss of the case and child to effectively be prepared to show up at the hearing to defend that she didn’t owe money to a person who fabricated his invoice. And he was correct. She didn’t even have the energy to show up. He got a default judgment. Later, the client realized that THIS was his role as an attorney. Not skill, not work- tricking clients into paying his associates, flagrantly losing the case by not doing the work and then suing the clients for work that was never done, knowing that he had already weakened an already vulnerable person.
Most of them know each other, too. They are as bad or possibly worse than politicians.
You are absolutely right that instead of upholding the law, they do their best to circumvent it so that people’s cases only get harder and harder to win- in order to line each others pockets.
I would never, ever hire a lawyer again, under any circumstances. Not after what I’ve seen.
The games they play to win- those are people’s LIVES they play with.
Not so long ago- I got a ticket for something I was innocent of. It wasn’t anything major but because I was innocent, and I was also feeling how unjust it was that many criminals walk free with not even a ticket, let alone charges- and here I was- innocent of some petty traffic crime- I fought it tooth and nail. Because not only was I innocent, but I had a cache of proof.
I used the public defender- even though I didn’t want to- because he was a jerk and I wanted to go directly to the DA myself with my evidence and demand a jury trial- at which I would simply defend myself. My case was open and shut. I was charged for driving with a “canceled license”. Turns out it was a DMV error. I brought my evidence in and these prosecutors and even the attorney who was supposed to be on my side tried to trick me into “taking a deal”. An innocent person takes no deals. And I said so. And kept having to say so for over a year of pretrial hearings while they worked together to break me down.
Over an incorrectly issued traffic ticket. It was a misdemeanor crime. But like I said, one I was innocent of. Had I actually committed the crime- yes I would have made a deal. After a year or so of me also working on my own lawyer and demanding a jury trial- they finally dropped it.
I even brought a copy of the constitution to the government center with me. Confronted this jerk with it and said “the only thing I’m accepting today is an apology”. For wasting my time and energy.
I never did get the apology, but it’s a sad state of affairs when it seems that no lawyer in any circumstance can be trusted.
When people advise me to get a lawyer for something complicated- I just laugh.
Court- generally- is to be avoided. The whole system is rigged and the lawyers play a very large part in this legal theater.