Lawyers

Frank Hogg 6/2000

You’ve heard the jokes, made the nasty comments, we all have. But do lawyers really deserve the things said about them?

One of the things that I’ve learned about lawyers over the past two years is that the answer to the above is not simple. Lawyers work for clients but not like you or I work for our employers. Lawyers in a sense become their clients in that are the spokesman for their clients. By their own rules they must do everything legal for their client just short of lying… or maybe lying is part of it. I’m not so sure about that last one. In the last two years I have witnessed lawyers lie on more occasions than I can count. So if the lawyer IS his client then shouldn’t the lawyer take the heat for his client along with the money they get?

About a year ago I was talking to a lawyer who is now working for Flying J and he told me he turned down working for Song Mountain because he knew it would be controversial and he had to live with his neighbors. This same lawyer is now upset about the heat he is taking for representing Flying J! If he had done his homework and looked into every town that a Flying J wanted to go into he would have found controversy. Look at the controversy in Liverpool. He had to know that Flying J would be a problem and now he wants us all to know that he is just representing his client and he is really a good guy. Well pal you can’t have it both ways. If you want to be a high powered lawyer for these big rich companies then you had better be ready to take the heat or get the heck out of the kitchen and stop crying to me about it. Heck when we are both sitting on those uncomfortable chairs in the Town Hall just remember this. I’m doing it for FREE and you are billing your client for what… 200 bucks an hour! So pardon me if I don’t shed a tear for you. You should be grateful to me for causing your client all this trouble because it means more money for you.

Lawyers… you can’t shoot them… you just have to listen to them bitch!