[Vision2020] lawyers

[Sue Hovey]

Good for you, Keely.  My nephew is an environmental lawyer in Seattle.  I am 
so proud of him and his accomplishments.  Just this month he was featured on 
the cover of a Seattle magazine as one of the significant persons in that 
city whose good deeds are worthy of celebration.  There are scuzzy lawyers, 
yes; as there are persons in all fields who are not representative of the 
best of the profession.  In the field of communications I would mention Rush 
Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.  In the ministry and even in my own teaching 
profession all those in positions of trust who prey on young people.  No 
profession has a corner on the market when it comes to unethical and 
unprofessional practitioners.  Were it possible to purge the ranks of all of 
them that would be a cause to celebrate.    Perhaps one way to begin to do 
that is for those who malign other professions to examine their own as well. 
>From my own perspective I feel Kai might even start in his own workplace.

Sue Hovey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
To: <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers


> I'm getting tired of all of the lawyer-bashing here.
>
> Yeah, sometimes bad lawyers do reprehensible things.  Welcome to a fallen
> world; there isn't a profession in it whose practitioners are all pure and
> free from temptations of greed and power.  But I'm astonished at how 
> easily
> people who enjoy freedom and a secure social order blast an entire
> profession whose efforts safeguard what they hold dear, and then presume 
> to
> run to them when their rights are trampled on.  We all benefit from  the
> highest ideals of the law, and most of us have not suffered directly from
> the bad behavior of some in the profession.  On the contrary.  We're 
> better
> off because of law  and the lawyers who study, administer, and guide us
> through it.
>
> It occurs to me that it is the provence of the secure and relatively
> affluent -- I might say "privileged" -- to malign lawyers.  Try seeing
> through the eyes of the disenfranchised, the victimized, the poor, and the
> voiceless, for whom the long arm of a vicious society constantly reaches.
> In Spanish, the word for lawyer, "abogado," is similar to "advocate."  In 
> my
> work with Mexican immigrants, I saw many examples of injustice, and I saw 
> a
> few times when righteousness and justice were accomplished through lawyers
> -- advocates for those without one.  I thank God for those women and men 
> who
> safeguard the freedoms of both the most privileged and the least of those
> among us.  Respect for the professions compels me to lament the bad ones,
> but it also requires that I extend my gratitude to the good ones who I 
> know
> are the majority.
>
> keely
>
>
>
> From: "Kai Eiselein" <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Health Care
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:55:23 +0000
>
> I notice that Nick left out a critcal element in the health care issue:
> LAWYERS.
> How much of the high cost is a direct result of sleazy litigators and 
> their
> often frivolous lawsuits, which result in higher malpractice insurance
> costs, which are then passed on to consumers?
> One of the hardest hit areas in medicine is in the OB specialty and many
> highly qualified practitioners are leaving it because of outrageous
> insurance costs.
> When are people going to learn that doctors are not miracle workers, 
> people
> die. Things don't always work out as planned or hoped, an unforseen
> complication here an alergic reaction there and, suddenly, a greezy 
> shyster
> shows up and says its worth millions.
> This isn't to say that doctors shouldn't be held accountable for their
> mistakes, they should, but there are things out of their control as well.
> Get the scuzzball attorneys under control first, then see what happens. 
> But
> we know that won't happen with the number of sharks we've elected to
> national office. They'll protect their own.
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