[End The Hypocrisy]

>>>The people bringing frivolous lawsuits are in fact the ones in control and in management positions in the bar association.<<<

I can identify with your concern but lawyers HATE being adjudicated by them because they're already wise to the art of advocacy and seductive reasoning that lawyers are trained to use. Additionally, such administrative lawyers gain points with their peers when they help reduce the population of lawyers because competition not only hurts profit margins, it also forces (campaign contributing) companies and (agenda-supporting) corrupt politicians to behave.

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Oh, I'm not saying the bar associations are totally ineffective and I'm well aware attorneys don't want to be involved on the disciplinary end of such proceedings. I certainly wouldn't.

But your saying the bar association proceedings "help reduce the population of lawyers because competition not only hurts profit margins, it also forces (campaign contributing) companies and (agenda-supporting) corrupt politicians to behave." Sorry, that's not happening, not at anything close to a statistically significant level. Not in my state and I'll bet not anywhere else either. As I've said, lawyers don't get disciplined for filing frivolous lawsuits, they get disciplined for mishandling money. That's the message lawyers take away from reading ethics opinions. The bar association can take care of the very worst of the worst, but that still leaves a heck of a lot of greedy opportunistic lawyers operating with the approval -- not the disapproval -- of the bar association.