(Apparently in the original context this is the punchline to “Imagine a world with no lawyers.” I always wonder the underlying motivations behind that, though. Is it advocating that police be judge, jury, and executioner (even moreso, I mean)?)
remember, lawyers don’t just defend, they prosecute
and trial law is a rather small amount of what many lawyers do. paperwork, counseling, negotiating, and patenting often consume large amounts of time. and that’s not even counting that lawyers often don’t just stay lawyers, they end up managers or politicians, positions that aren’t exactly publicly popular.
lawyers write laws to keep job security for the profession. contrast with Cuba’s recent family code that’s iirc written in plain language anyone literate (i.e. all Cubans, suck it USA) can understand. also probably other laws of theirs.
The “lawyers are bad people” joke was a trope from the 80s to the 2000s. IIRC there’s a episode about how that kind of rhetoric was pushed by megacorps who wanted to discourage “frivolous lawsuits”, like the woman who got 3rd degree burns from mcdonalds coffee.
there’s been quite a few periods in time where lawyers were particularly unpopular and mocked. most of the people involved in Watergate were lawyers, so lawyers popularity dropped massively when that hit, and they were ridiculed by all kinds of media.
(Apparently in the original context this is the punchline to “Imagine a world with no lawyers.” I always wonder the underlying motivations behind that, though. Is it advocating that police be judge, jury, and executioner (even moreso, I mean)?)
remember, lawyers don’t just defend, they prosecute
and trial law is a rather small amount of what many lawyers do. paperwork, counseling, negotiating, and patenting often consume large amounts of time. and that’s not even counting that lawyers often don’t just stay lawyers, they end up managers or politicians, positions that aren’t exactly publicly popular.
lawyers write laws to keep job security for the profession. contrast with Cuba’s recent family code that’s iirc written in plain language anyone literate (i.e. all Cubans, suck it USA) can understand. also probably other laws of theirs.
The “lawyers are bad people” joke was a trope from the 80s to the 2000s. IIRC there’s a
episode about how that kind of rhetoric was pushed by megacorps who wanted to discourage “frivolous lawsuits”, like the woman who got 3rd degree burns from mcdonalds coffee.
there’s been quite a few periods in time where lawyers were particularly unpopular and mocked. most of the people involved in Watergate were lawyers, so lawyers popularity dropped massively when that hit, and they were ridiculed by all kinds of media.
The way Springfield PD was depicted in the show, I doubt the creators held police in high regard