Lawyers Are Predators.How Do We Stop Them ?

The problem with our legal system is its high cost. Attorneys fees range between $300-1000 per hour. The average U.S worker makes app. $ 17.00 per hour. Like water, clean air or soil , laws are necessary for human life and interaction. Therefore the legal system should not be priced to effectively deny access and justice to the society. We have all heard of the ridiculous law suits awards and the high percentage of those awards that go into the lawyers pockets.

Today in the papers ,Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman are close to being indicted by the Justice Department. Their alledged crime is having payed clients to sue target companies. And then Milberg et al shared fees and judgements with the clients for this illegal cooperation. Justice Dept. has documented over 50 such illegal cases this past 25 years. Milberg judgements against targeted companies have run into the billions of dollars.This example shows the extent our legal system has become a hypertrophy of legal abuse.

Our GDP is app.$ 11 trillion. Studies have estimated the cost of our legal system in actual costs and defensive business practices by corporations and individuals to run up to 5-25% of GDP. We are all effectively taxed by these lawyer/predators in our midst. The cost of our legal system elevates even law-abiding lawyers to the level of predator. What can be done?

The cost of the pursuit of justice has to be reduced. That means there has to be an incentive for quicker justice and legal fees that reward shorter legal procedures. Some examples include: no jury selection-lawyers take what they get, no unanimous verdicts by juries required- majority verdicts will suffice, limits on court cases to 1 or 2 weeks, limit of appeals, loser pay system, Small Claims court limit raised to $ 1,000,000 and unlimited amount cases being tried by individuals, non-attorney court cases ( that's the way the Greeks did it ), stop class-action abuse cases, etc.

In days gone by justice was an individual's obligation. Somebody wronged you. You got even. Today the cost of ammunition for a weapon has never been cheaper. In contrast, the cost for legal remedies has never been higher. The gap is too wide .