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Barrister Bashing

Irwin of Albany, NY, writes:
While I found your site quite interesting, it’s my opinion that lawyers need to back off a bit when it comes to the "sue everyone" mentality. Granted, I know you make a living practicing law. (I’m glad the electrician that wired my house wasn’t “practicing” his trade) And, suing people is part of that. But, is that all that law school taught you? Isn’t there a more respectable way?

A few things come to mind. First, most of the lawyers that advertise, appear as idiots with slogans such as… “One call, that’s all!” or “If this is your wreck, you need a check” My God… I should sue these lawyers for insulting my intelligence. (humm… there’s a thought. Would you represent me?)

Why is it now that if your kid hits a baseball and it brakes a window in a neighbor’s house, one can lose their house over it. And why is it that you encourage this mentality on your website with the recurring links to the small claims court section. Is it not enough to just provide information and pose as a Good Samaritan without fueling the fire to take what is not yours.

It’s a long known principal that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. By placing just the negative comments about these companies on you site is self-serving and quite obvious.

Every company at one time or another will have a dissatisfied client. But out of the thousands (or even millions) they serve, I have to ask, how you can condemn them the way you do?

This site is not run by lawyers. It's primarily a consumer education publication, like a magazine or newsletter. We don't "condemn" all the companies about which we get complaints; rather we publish selected complaints to help other consumers avoid making the same mistakes. We have hundreds of testimonials from consumers to this effect.

"Braking" a window would be pretty hard to do, by the way, unless it had wheels.

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