Week 2 EOC: What I Think About Lawyers

The ways people feel about lawyers are generally pretty controversial. People can be gullible, and believe the things they hear lawyers say on commercials, about how they’re willing to fight as hard as it takes, to bring you justice. Contrarily, many feel that they are stone cold snakes who will defend even the most despicable and vile cases, solely for the sake of their profit. I once believed the negative extreme about lawyers, but now I feel my opinion about them is different from the norm. Someone brilliant told me “Lawyers are not defending their clients, they are defending the law.” And this statement made it all a lot clearer to me. Yes, maybe a lot of them truly are merciless, taking on cases that involve defending cruel and unjust actions. But, the simple fact remains, that if they are able to win a case that rationalizes dishonorable actions, they have contributed to strengthening our laws. More simply, a good lawyer takes on cases deserving justice, a bad one will take on any case that will put a nice profit in his/her pocket, a great one doesn’t let their emotions interfere, focusing only on the case as it applies to the legal system we created and live by. Should a lawyer end up winning a case for someone who is generally considered unrighteous, that should in turn expose our legal system’s corruptions to ourselves, and warrant change. After all, by holding an active legal delegation, we are fighting for justice in the first place.