On 14 Jul 2003 02:52:08 -0800, Floyd Davidson wrote:
Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

The only time you "need one" is when you are forced to deal with
another one (or leavings from same).

sdb

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cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval
of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis

In article pZ.com.invalid,
Sylvan Butler d wrote:

Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

The only time you "need one" is when you are forced to deal with
another one (or leavings from same).

What's the old story? Oh, yeah. Lawyer moves from the East Coast
back to a small frontier town, back sometime in the 1800's. Six
months later, he's nearly destitute... nobody in town needs a lawyer.

So, he writes to an old school friend of his, and encourages his
friend to move to the same town and open a competing legal practice.

Ten years later, they are both sufficiently wealthy to retire in
comfort.

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
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I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:07:42 -0000, Dave Platt wrote:

What's the old story? Oh, yeah. Lawyer moves from the East Coast
back to a small frontier town, back sometime in the 1800's. Six
months later, he's nearly destitute... nobody in town needs a lawyer.

So, he writes to an old school friend of his, and encourages his
friend to move to the same town and open a competing legal practice.

Ten years later, they are both sufficiently wealthy to retire in
comfort.

That old saw, coupled with the "if you build it, they will come"
didn't work when I retired from an over-full desk of cases in the
Federal service to an empty desk and lots of scrounging as a sole
practitioner in the private sector.

I loved doing the legal work. I hated running the business.

And "they" didn't come - I had to go out and snag them.

I hated that, too. So I retired "for real" and do just about as
much (free) legal consulting as I feel like doing.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

Retired and loving every minute of it....
Work was getting in the way of my hobbies

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:07:42 -0000, Dave Platt wrote:

What's the old story? Oh, yeah. Lawyer moves from the East Coast
back to a small frontier town, back sometime in the 1800's. Six
months later, he's nearly destitute... nobody in town needs a lawyer.

So, he writes to an old school friend of his, and encourages his
friend to move to the same town and open a competing legal practice.

Ten years later, they are both sufficiently wealthy to retire in
comfort.

That old saw, coupled with the "if you build it, they will come"
didn't work when I retired from an over-full desk of cases in the
Federal service to an empty desk and lots of scrounging as a sole
practitioner in the private sector.

I loved doing the legal work. I hated running the business.

And "they" didn't come - I had to go out and snag them.

I hated that, too. So I retired "for real" and do just about as
much (free) legal consulting as I feel like doing.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

Retired and loving every minute of it....
Work was getting in the way of my hobbies

Sylvan Butler d wrote:
On 14 Jul 2003 02:52:08 -0800, Floyd Davidson wrote:
Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

The only time you "need one" is when you are forced to deal with
another one (or leavings from same).

sdb

I hire lawyers to do work that I personally don't care much for
and am not good at. (They pay me to do things they aren't so
good at either, so this it's a good deal both ways.)

Dealing with legalities is not something which happens because
someone is "forced" to deal with another lawyer. Instead, it
happens every time you do something that is affected by a law,
and laws are written by politicians (who unfortunately are often
not lawyers and don't have a clue what they're doing when the
pass laws). In fact, dealing with a lawyer in the first place
is the best way to avoid having to deal with more lawyers later!

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

In article pZ.com.invalid,
Sylvan Butler d wrote:

Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

The only time you "need one" is when you are forced to deal with
another one (or leavings from same).

What's the old story? Oh, yeah. Lawyer moves from the East Coast
back to a small frontier town, back sometime in the 1800's. Six
months later, he's nearly destitute... nobody in town needs a lawyer.

So, he writes to an old school friend of his, and encourages his
friend to move to the same town and open a competing legal practice.

Ten years later, they are both sufficiently wealthy to retire in
comfort.

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

Sylvan Butler d wrote:
On 14 Jul 2003 02:52:08 -0800, Floyd Davidson wrote:
Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

The only time you "need one" is when you are forced to deal with
another one (or leavings from same).

sdb

I hire lawyers to do work that I personally don't care much for
and am not good at. (They pay me to do things they aren't so
good at either, so this it's a good deal both ways.)

Dealing with legalities is not something which happens because
someone is "forced" to deal with another lawyer. Instead, it
happens every time you do something that is affected by a law,
and laws are written by politicians (who unfortunately are often
not lawyers and don't have a clue what they're doing when the
pass laws). In fact, dealing with a lawyer in the first place
is the best way to avoid having to deal with more lawyers later!

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On 14 Jul 2003 02:52:08 -0800, Floyd Davidson wrote:
Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

The only time you "need one" is when you are forced to deal with
another one (or leavings from same).

sdb

--
| Sylvan Butler | Not speaking for Hewlett-Packard | sbutler-boi.hp.com |
| Watch out for my e-mail address. Thank UCE. change ^ to @ |
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral
busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his
cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval
of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis

Robert Hawk wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:43:54 -0700, Dr. John
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:12:11 GMT, belch-spoke these words:

Well no, but I have been harmed by snakes, I mean lawyers. Can we get a
class action suit against lawyers? Lawyers have done more harm than
solder. So let's start with a class action against lawyers.

So many things wrong with that statement.... cant compute....errr. beep.

John

I think his statement is perfectly clear. All Lawyers are SELF
SERVING.. If we did not have these PARASITES chaseing
every AMBULANCE the Doctors may continue to practice..

Including the incompentent ones that take out the wrong organs,
kill people with overdoses, etc. etc.

Lawyers sure are horrible... until you need one.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:47:47 GMT, Robert Hawk belch-spoke these words:

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:43:54 -0700, Dr. John
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:12:11 GMT, belch-spoke these words:

Well no, but I have been harmed by snakes, I mean lawyers. Can we get a
class action suit against lawyers? Lawyers have done more harm than
solder. So let's start with a class action against lawyers.

So many things wrong with that statement.... cant compute....errr. beep.

John

I think his statement is perfectly clear. All Lawyers are SELF
SERVING.. If we did not have these PARASITES chaseing
every AMBULANCE the Doctors may continue to practice..


I didn't say it was unclear, I said it was wrong. Suing lawyers if you are one is hypocrisy and if
you are not, is suicide.

And I know PLENTY of lawyers that don't chase ambulances or doctors. What goddamn world are you
living in?

John