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From: mel@houxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Why lawyers are useful to society.
Message-ID: <517@houxm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 11:14:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 11:14:46 1983
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Poppy-cock.  Lawyers may be NECESSARY to society, but not USEFUL.
Here in New Jersey the lawyers have taken "ambulance chasing" to
new highs (totally controlling all aspects of it) such that our
automobile insurance is plain out-of-sight, and some insurance
companies won't even do business here.  If lawyers are rewarded all
out of proportion to their contribution, the bright minds will all
go to law school (as they do now in places like Brazil), and the
useful professions (farming, engineering, medicine, manufacturing,
etc.) get short shrift.  It seems to me that "The Law" is the field
of redistribution of wealth to the benefit of lawyers, as opposed to
engineering, science, forestry, etc. that creates new wealth.  Society
as a whole benefits most from creation of new wealth; a lot from
fields like medicine that maintains well being; and not at all from
the manipulation of human misery practiced by [some|many|most?] lawyers.
         Mel Haas  ,  houxm!mel