Let's Say Nice Things About All the Lawyers

Like many of you I'm sure, we've been paying a bit more attention to the Presidential campaign lately. Without taking sides -- or even getting involved with the issue of tort reform -- we can't help but notice that lawyer-bashing is getting a bit less play this time around. Naturally, as personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles, we're kind of relieved. We're glad we don't have to point out that most of the people making the anti-lawyer cracks are usually lawyers themselves, even if they haven't practiced in a while.

Yes, we've all heard the stories and the jokes, and it's true that -- as with members of any profession -- lawyers have been known to behave in a less than ethical fashion from time to time. That's not news. But the fact of the matter is that lawyers, very definitely including personal injury lawyers, are a crucial part of our system of checks and balances, especially when it comes to private parties.

Without a good personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, for example, someone who has been injured by the bad actions of a local company or has been under-compensated by a major insurance company would effectively have nowhere to turn. In a funny way, lawyers are like the government. It's easy to criticize us in a thoughtless and generic way, but when you actually need our help and get it, suddenly we seem like pretty okay people.