Tweet• Americans say that lawyers are
greedy, manipulative, and corrupt.
Personal experiences with lawyers
substantiate these beliefs. Consumers tell stories of lawyers who
misrepresent their qualifications,
overpromise, are not upfront about
their fees, charge too much for their
services, take too long to resolve
matters, and fail to return client
phone calls.
• Americans are also uncomfortable
with the connections that lawyers
have with politics, the judiciary,
government, big business, and law
enforcement. These connections
imbue lawyers with a certain
degree of power in society. Americans believe that the central place
of lawyers in society enables them
not only to play the system, but
also to shape that very system.
• Americans also believe that lawyers do a poor job of policing
themselves. Bar associations are
not viewed as protectors of the
public or the public interest, but as
clubs to protect lawyers.
from- Welcome | Clifford Law