The practice of law is a profession. It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars and many years before one can become an attorney. Once you are an attorney, there are considerable expenses associated with maintaining a practice. Paying professional staff, maintaining an office, paying malpractice insurance, paying Bar dues…and…
When you are in the business of defending consumers and standing up for basic rights, an attorney has the considerable added expense of defending oneself from the lawsuits, cease and desist letters and the threats and intimidation tactics that come with the territory when you are taking on the establishment, the banks and the most powerful forces in the universe who are hell bent on silencing dissent, quashing any protest or resistance and preventing the larger audience from understanding just what they are doing.
The truth is, I am honored to practice law and would do it for free, but I run a business and collect a fair and reasonable fee for doing what I do. I think the article that appeared in the St. Pete Times starts an interesting discussion about the fees charged by lawyers. The question every consumer should ask, whether it be lawyers fees or anything else is….
“Am I getting value for what I am buying?”
There is another point that is not made in the article, but that is far more significant than anything addressed in the article…..
Just think about the extraordinary impact the defense of foreclosure cases has had on our larger economy and the profound social and political implications. Each case has an impact in its own right, but the cumulative impact of attorneys all across this country standing up to a system that has grown wild and out of control is that we have exposed to the larger world a vast and pervasive crime spree that touches every single aspect of our lives.
