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To: End The Hypocrisy
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.
70 posted on 12/09/2002 11:13:19 AM PST by Amore
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To: Amore
>>>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.<<<


A lot of bad stuff is also said about CEO's and medical doctors (and for that matter college professors). All are typically in it for the money (or job security), and all do things that lots of folks disapprove of. Capitalism ain't pretty sometimes.
71 posted on 12/09/2002 11:15:56 AM PST by End The Hypocrisy
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