I was reading a post today from SC Trial Lawyer, David Swanner, titled “Why People Don’t Like Lawyers” and it tells of a horror story (for lawyers anyway) about a lawyer going off in a doctor’s office about how she is a lawyer and she knows the law and you can’t ask for such and such information in a very nasty tone. I have even heard people say to doctors, especially folks working at the emergency room, “my son is a lawyer and if you don’t get me in to see the doctor soon, he won’t be happy!”
Gosh, that makes me sick – and scared. It’s no wonder that lawyers have a bad reputation. This one lawyer has negatively impacted an entire profession. Maybe she has had a bad day, or just got some bad news from the doctor, but she still put a black eye on every other attorney.
Maybe the saddest part of this whole story is how the people reacted talking about how lawyers are destroying the country and so on. The bad stuff always covers up the good that lawyers provide society.