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I'm not afraid to admit that there are good, honest hard-working attorneys out there. I know there are. Thank God for the EFF and even the ACLU even though I don't always agree with them. Thank heaven for pro bono attorneys and those who defend the poor and indigent.
But then there's ATLA (the American Trial Lawyers Association) who have essentially created a situation such that any politician who attempts to craft legislation preventing tort reform will be politically castrated.
There are some simple things that can be done to fix the lawsuit craze but ATLA who is well represented on Capitol Hill won't hear of it and no one within the legal profession will stand up to them. That, more than anything, is my problem with lawyers. They stand up for each other even when they know they shouldn't.
Neither lawyers nor their clients should not be permitted to share in punative damage awards. Change that and the lawsuit problem will vanish overnight.
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