What do you think of lawyers?

Today in class, the teacher somewhat discussed how lawyers are in general and how they are portrayed in the society. What I found interesting about lawyers was the whole “campaign, re-election” deals that they make with judges. What happens is lawyers will re-elect the judge and give them large amounts of money for the judge’s elections for the trade of favors. An interesting joke that is posted on myeclassonline.com that I found to be interesting about lawyers is, “What's the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer? -- A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge”. Lawyers are portrayed as sneaks, cheats, and liars when it comes to the law. In my opinion, those favors that they receive from judges can be good. For example, one day you’re driving on the freeway and all of the sudden a cop clocks you going 80mph. The speed limit is 65. The cop then writes you a ticket and that’s something you really don’t want on you record. You drive home one day pissed off about that ticket and you see a little piece of heaven, a billboard that says, “Got a ticket? Call us to get rid of it!”. You then call the number and for a little price, you’re ticket will be taken care of and it is then reduced to a parking citation. The teacher discussed that this is a favor owed by the judge to the “excellent lawyer” that reduced your speeding ticket.

One movie that came to mind about lawyers is Liar, Liar with Jim Carrey. I’m sure we all know the story, and if you don’t, I encourage you to watch it because it is a great movie. As a lawyer, he constantly lies and cheats to win cases and money until one day, his son decides to make a birthday wish for his father not to lie. He then goes through life without the ability to tell a lie causing him to lose cases and causes him to lose credibility in his firm. So it’s kind of ironic actually, lawyers are supposed to help us with the law, but then they have their own ways to twist and turn facts in order to win a case. As I’ve seen so far in media, yes lawyers are sneaks, but I’m sure there are good, loyal lawyers out there. Good luck finding them.