My Comments for Jade Interiors and Strawberry Studios

Jade Interiors
http://jadeinteriors702.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-i-feel-about-lawyers.html?showComment=1240529580000#c3467906208127541071
I agree with your opinion “I believe it may be true that lawyers are faulted for the flaws in the law itself, and some lawyers perform a beneficial role by holding citizens accountable to the law. It is the decline in this field’s professionalism that has urged me to consider the fact that they exert a lot of effort into changing public perception and not their practices." because you can't lump all lawyers into one statement. Some have a Nobel cause and they try their best to uphold the laws. But others prey on misfortune of others and capitalize with taking large percentages of their compensation. Hard to debate when there are so many individual circumstances.

Starberry Studios
http://starberrystudios.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-views-of-todays-justice-system.html
I agree with your comments "America’s justice system also does a great job protecting businesses. It helps protect them from white-collar crimes such as: bribery, extortion, perjury, embezzlement, and other crimes like credit card fraud and identity theft. Many of the laws set forth are protect businesses from collapsing. It also gives small companies a chance to rise in today’s economy by setting the grounds so that everyone can play fair." but I also think it can be taken too far and the use of common sense is lost. To many cases want to make an example out of a high profile defendant and a lawyer coming up in the world wants to get his fame at someone else’s expense.
Nice use of information from the book.

What do I think of the law?

Hmmm? Laws?
The law is that line of morality or rules that someone or many have said we must follow or we will be punished. I question the laws we have all the time. Do I follow the law? Yes, most of the time but I disagree with a few and I agree with many but I think we need to be more current with all our laws.

We can look at laws in two ways; first, they are set to keep the general population from a state of anarchy. Second, they are set to control the population by a higher institution such as a government or religion. Laws keeping the public safe are a necessity but sometimes laws fringe on breaking our basic rights. For us as citizens of the United States we are taught to believe that we are free. I sometimes wonder how free we really are. An easy example is at age eighteen I can’t drink a beer without breaking the law but at the same age my government can draft me against my will to fight in a war. This makes no sense to me. Is this freedom? I’m not sure but I question it.

I believe a solution for many outdated laws is after a specific amount of time each and every law on the books needs to be reviewed and voted on at both a state and federal level. This process may take many years and an entirely new branch of government may need to be created but at least we are up to date with changing times. If the IRS can keep track of every citizen’s taxes then we should be able to keep track of all the laws on the books. Which is more important?

So, yes I believe that law is a good thing or even a necessity to society and without them humanity would not be able to function but we need some checks and balances to keep the system current.

What I think of lawyers

So lawyers? My thoughts? Lawyers serve many proposes, they help convict the guilty, free the innocent, uphold our laws under the United States constitution, obtain compensation from the wronged, and so on. A lawyer can be your best friend in a time of need and your worst enemy if you have committed a crime.

What I think of them depends on why I need one. I will place myself in a situation where I have been wrongly accused of stealing something of great value and all the evidence points right back in my direction. Without a competent lawyer I’m basically screwed for lack of a better term. I will have to put all my faith, trust, and hope in this person knowing that if they F-up I will be getting to know what it feels like to spend many long years in a state prison to ponder my despise of incompetent lawyer scum. If my lawyer gets me acquitted, I love lawyers.

Lawyers that we call “ambulance chasers” annoy me and I believe that they push prices of insurance through the roof but they spent a lot of time reading very boring books in order to pass that bar test so I give them some credit. Someone always finishes at the bottom of the class just scraping by with slightly passing average and they need to eat too. They also have to have a client that hires them to prosecute for trivial reasons. I believe the greed of the client fuels the greed of the lawyer. This statement also stays true with divorce lawyers.

So really in the Cliff Notes version of my thoughts on lawyers is they serve a need for what the situation is and if I need one I must have respect and faith that the justice system will prevail (at least in my favor).