by Gullscorer » 01 Aug 2013, 23:34
ferrarilover wrote:Actually, you're right. Well, partially. I feel dodgy lawyers is a tautology.
Matt.
Matt, if you mean a tautology because lawyers are, by definition, dodgy, then actually you're right. Well, partially. Some are dodgy in the sense of being unreliable due to being inadequate in their work, for example, by unwisely taking on work which is beyond their level of skill or area of expertise. Others, much more rarely, are dodgy because they're prone to using underhand or even illegal or criminal tactics. Fortunately 99% of lawyers produce perfectly reasonable work. A few are quite brilliant.
But the big problem I have with lawyers is the rip-off fees they charge. In this respect they are almost as bad as, for example, vets, private dentists and surveyors. Plumbers and builders too. It is said that we don't pay such people for the job they do, but we pay them for knowing how to do the job. Yet any moderately intelligent person, with a little diligent autodidactic research, could learn how to do a quite adequate job for next to no cost, apart from a certain amount of time and effort. But if, after that, you still needed to hire an expert, you'd at least have a better chance of knowing if that expert was trying to pull the wool over your eyes in order to hide his or her inadequacy, or, indeed, was trying to rip you off..
[quote="ferrarilover"]Actually, you're right. Well, partially. I feel dodgy lawyers is a tautology.
Matt.[/quote]
Matt, if you mean a tautology because lawyers are, by definition, dodgy, then actually you're right. Well, partially. Some are dodgy in the sense of being unreliable due to being inadequate in their work, for example, by unwisely taking on work which is beyond their level of skill or area of expertise. Others, much more rarely, are dodgy because they're prone to using underhand or even illegal or criminal tactics. Fortunately 99% of lawyers produce perfectly reasonable work. A few are quite brilliant.
But the big problem I have with lawyers is the rip-off fees they charge. In this respect they are almost as bad as, for example, vets, private dentists and surveyors. Plumbers and builders too. It is said that we don't pay such people for the job they do, but we pay them for knowing how to do the job. Yet any moderately intelligent person, with a little diligent autodidactic research, could learn how to do a quite adequate job for next to no cost, apart from a certain amount of time and effort. But if, after that, you still needed to hire an expert, you'd at least have a better chance of knowing if that expert was trying to pull the wool over your eyes in order to hide his or her inadequacy, or, indeed, was trying to rip you off..
