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by yoda23 on December 11th, 2005

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Why do people hate lawyers so much?

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  • by Aminor on December 23rd, 2005

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    It's often a case of wanting to kill the messenger. Everyone has a personal, interior notion of what his or her legal rights are, what they're entitled to do or not do, what the law is about various things, etc. -- a more or less highly elaborated picture of their legal position vis-a-vis the rest of society. Unfortunately, this picture usually correspoinds to reality at surprisingly few points. Consequently, someone who comes into contact with the actual law is frequently in for an unpleasant surprise, and it will probably be a lawyer from whom they get the bad news. (And even if it's their own lawyer, they're liable to hold it against them.) For example, a lot of landlords have notions of their rights and powers over tenants that are five or six hundred years out of date, and sail along happily for decades, since most tenants don't know any better either. Then one day some tenant has a friend or relative who's a lawyer, or consults a legal aid group or something, and lo and behold, reality breaks in, whereupon the landlord assumes it's all the lawyer's fault. (Tenants get bad news from lawyers, too, but it's usually not a surprise.) And the same thing happens in lots of different areas. Large books are written about criminal law and procedure, and ones just as big could be written about the misconceptions people have about those areas. And when they chance to find out the truth about something or other -- possibly some principle firmly established for a couple centuries -- and don't like it, who gets blamed?

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