As one of those you consider "parasites," I hope you never find yourself arrested, sued, harmed, swindled, slandered, the subject of a government investigation or the like.
The last time I checked, it was the plaintiff who claimed the harm, not the lawyer. Blaming the lawyer for the lawsuit is like blaming the gun for shooting a person, or a car for someone driving drunk. Yes, if lawyers weren't there, there would be fewer suits, but you would have houses filled with asbestos, Thalidomide cases covered up, more cars designed like Ford Pintos, Agent Orange and the like under the rug, no Miranda rights, searches without warrants, no civil rights, the government always "right" and a whole lot of other things, only because there would be no one capable of taking on the complaint on behalf of the person.
Its really easy to view the world from one direction, and that's what most people do, as their perspective is the
only true one. A good lawyer has to view it from at least four - the client's perspective, the other party's perspective, somewhere in between both, what the law specifically says is or isn't allowed, and possibly a fifth that hasn't been obvious to those subjectively involved. The truth is absolute, but no single perspective ever provides it.
Lawyers do not judge their clients - they advocate the client's position. The ethical rules in every jurisdiction are the same - if a lawyer permits or engages in pejrury, the lawyer becomes an accomplice to fraud upon the court, or worse. Attorney-client privilege forbids an lawyer from disclosing any client's secrets, but does not allow the lawyer to instigate or continue a fraud, perjury or other criminal behavior. I've withdrawn several times from cases - during a hearing - because the client insisted on lying to the court, and the lawyers I know do this routinely. Clients lie, and when caught in it, the good attorney - and there's a lot of them - drop the client.
Are there lawyers who break the law? Sure there are. In the two jurisdictions I'm licensed in, there's a total of over 300,000 bar members, but less than 10% have ever represented a client in court. With numbers that large, even if 99.5% are persons of honor, that still leaves 1,500 to worry about. Is that any different than any other profession? The bad apples always get the publicity. Accusing all lawyers of being another Melvin Weiss is like accusing all physicians of being another Ana Alvarez-Jacinto (see
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls/PressR...081218-01.html ).
Hate us lawyers if you want. I'm proud of the profession and the freedoms it protects. Once the lawyers are gone, the freedoms go with them - as everywhere on this planet have found,
because the lawyers are the first ones the dictators and despots go after.