FACT: Lawyers make a lot of money
 

http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part03.html

Reading this made me sick to my stomach. I've always known law to be a profitable industry but now its producing billionairs. What does everyone else think?

Like any profession the big moneymakers represent a minority of people in the profession. I know a lot of lawyers who have trouble making the rent.

Yea your right. This is especially true for lawyers who still believe in justice for all (even those who can't afford it). It just makes me sick to see lawyers taking such a big percentage of the money going to people who were seriously injured or dying of cancer.

You know all those lawyer jokes you hear? They're not jokes.:(

Capitalism, baby...sheer unadulterated capitalism.

You know that when lawyers take those cases, it's entirely contingeny based, right? They spend thousands of hours on cases, often pay all costs (DNA testing, expert witnesses, travel, everything) out of pocket, and only recoup when they win. Which doesn't happen as often as everything thinks. We only see the big money winners on TV, never the hunndreds of claims that go nowhere.

I got no problem with somebody who's willing to take that kind of risk, based entirely on their belief that the case is a just cause and will eventually pay off. I got no problem with them being rewarded when they're right.

-sm