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DMcFadden · #20 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008, 12:28 AM

One of my sons is a civil litigator, so in principle I'm not against lawyers making a decent living. I think what Fred is protesting is the kind of situation described in Grisham' s King of Torts. Money grubbing manipulators of the law and of the emotions of jurors who seek to get rich off human suffering is not a very pretty picture. Perhaps it is a distinction in search of a difference, but I do think that there is a difference between an ethical attorney seeking just redress for an injured party and an "ambulance chasing shyster." In principle, I have no problem with the idea of a class action suit. In practice, it gripes me when every possible malady is met with a television ad for a law firm seeking to scrounge up clients for a suit.