[sfwarrior]

Greedy trial lawyers are manipulating juries, ruining our justice system and costing each of us thousands of $$$$ per year! Read the entire article and find out what you can do to fight back in http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/sparks/

[sfwarrior]

Ping
And here's some good lawyer jokes to accompany the story above: http://xar.us/funny/lawyer.html

[2banana]

Trial lawyers donate nearly exclusively to the Democratic Party; their largesse has corrupted the Democratic Party's platform. The Democrats have traditionally opposed all meaningful tort reform

About sums up why it never changed when the democrats were in power...

[bmwcyle]

Got money?

[BikerNYC]

Oh, please. Trial lawyers are utilizing laws that are currently in place. If anyone is to blame it's politicians who won't change the laws, judges who let cases go forward, and juries who actually award the damages. Trial lawyers are capitalists...they are using the current system to their best possible lawfuul advantage, just like any person in business would. Are corporate taxpayers "greedy" when they use every possible legal loophole to avoid paying as much taxes as they can?

[Phaedrus]

Dewey, Cheatem Bump

[Xenalyte]

Taxpayers don't know whether they're criminals or not.

Oh, we know. We're just too poor to care.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Change the system to looser pays bump!

The one time I was a jurror, about 12 years ago, a woman wanted "upper six figures" ($800,000 - $900,000) in damages for what she claimed was a bad knee due to hitting it on her dash board (she wasn't wearing her seat belt which would have prevented this) when in a fender bender (very minor accident). Her lawyer was a bafoon. The defence lawyer ran circles around him. She, with the "horribly disabling injury" didn't even limp to the witness stand. We on the jury made our decision in roughly 15 minutes. She got nothing. She and her lawyer should have been HEAVILY fined for tying up the courts for over one week. Sadly, our system is written by scum/lawyers like the Clintons who want everything transfered to themselves. The lady and her lawyer walked away ready to try something like this again. At some point they will hit the sue-'em jackpot...

[Redleg Duke]

99.9% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name.

[BJungNan]

The lawyer jokes were created as a peaceful outlet to vent the extreme frustration many Americans feel about a system that's rigged to benefit lawyers at the expense of citizens.

No they weren't. From the first lawyer joke every told, we meant every word.

[paltz]

Why don't judges just throw out these ridiculous cases? Follow the money. Trial lawyers like to curry favor with judges, and they do so generously. One study conducted by the Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch finds that the personal-injury bar contributed more than 75 percent of the roughly $800,000 given to Madison County, Ill., judges' political campaigns over the last two decades.

GO after the corrupt judges!

[Labyrinthos]

Rather than blaming lawyers for the entire problem, you ought to be blaming the plaintiffs who commence the lawsuits in the first place. Exercise a little personal responsibility, and when you see that bill board or full page ad in the yellow pages that promises riches for a broken toe nail, just say "NO". Remember, no matter how much you think that your desire to sue is contolled by genetics or some addictive chemical that is secretly pumped into the air and water by greedy, democrap controlled trial lawyers, you can break the cycle of litigation by simply exercising a bit of personal restraint. Remember, lawyers don't sue people, people sue people.

[wildbill]

We shouldn't condemn them all. It's just the bad 99% that give the rest a bad name.

[Chemist_Geek]

Consider this case: When Richard Espinosa and his 50-pound Labrador-mix dog, Kimba, visited the Escondido city library last fall, L.C., the 10-pound library cat, allegedly attacked the dog, causing $46.49 in veterinary bills for Kimba and a $38 charge from Espinosa's chiropractor. Espinosa has filed a claim against the city for $1.5 million.

Waitaminute. This PUBLIC library has a cat? Well, heck's bells, I'm being denied equal access to the tax-supported library due to their deliberate contamination of its atmosphere with cat dander. I want to file suit!

Nevermind that I'm a citizen of Michigan and have only once visited Escondido...I want my money! (/sarcasm)