patrickt
I'm hopeful your counsel has advised you to read things carefully, such as my post indicating the fact I was tweeking Evan a bit.
I guess one must be poor to have altruistic motivation in their line of work under your analysis. It's just damn tough to find a plumber willing to clear the pipes for free these days (or a hooker, for that matter). Doctors must not be as interested in saving a life if they are paid. I'm sure you must not take a nickel for your services, which allows you to have such purity of thought. I commend you for that.
The
actual point being discussed had nothing to do with money earned...it had to do with a
system in which there is little downfall in bringing suits which ultimately fail simply because a few might score or be bought off. Again, there's that old reading thing...a lost art it appears.
Somehow the law progressed through history and elsewhere on this planet before the American plaintiffs' bar developed the contingency fee and lobbied for insulation from having to pay when they fail to win...so goes the holy rationale for being unable to protect the downtrodden without those features.
In any event...you are entitled to your thoughts, such as they are.
