Y'all can keep nitpickin' with each other if that's what rocks your boat, but face it, the other guy either cannot or will not see your point, much less concede it. As someone who doesn't really have a direct dog in the fight other than being a taxpayer and potential client/patient, I see the value of shysters as well as quacks. Somebody's going to get the wrong leg amputated or breast removed. That person is going to need someone to defend them against a medical/legal team that wants to award them 40% discounts on their next organ removal and call it even. And just because it's that MD's 10th botched amputation this year or the 14th good boob excised, the medicos would just as soon keep any "investigation" internal. They'll handle their own. Oh, give me a shark trial lawyer --- not John Edwards, but a real shark.

On the other hand -- low hanging fruit first -- you've all seen the commercials: "Had an auto accident, a fall, or any other injury. Call us immediately before you see a doctor. If we don't get you money, you don't pay!!!" Without question, the bottom-feeders of the industry, but then someone had to finish at the bottom of the class. But another equally objectionable portion of an otherwise honorable profession is the class-action lawyer. We're gonna sue Chic-lets because they changed their formula for cinnamon and I'm allergic. Somehow, through friendly court rulings and other manipulations, we end up with 100,000 members of the class. We sue Chic-let for $500,000,000, a reasonable sum. Chic-lets knows the case is being tried in Madison Co, Illinois, so they're gonna lose. So they settle for $50mil. The lawyers get their percentage (in cash), then the class members get coupons good toward the purchase of new improved Chic-lets cinnamon, if, of course, they fill out all the right paperwork So who won?




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