What do you really think about lawyers?

[the_bob_delusion]

🙂

[lakeland27]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

real lawyers or pretend CS know all lawyers?

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 no real ones. he debriefs a little with me (says i'm a good listener but i'm really thinking about coffee or wristwatches or donuts)

[chuk_77]

sorry lakeland my reply wasnt to you. Stoopib reply button. 

It was a question to the OP 

[icyfroth]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Here's a lot of them.  Don't think much of these.

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don't think much of this one either:

[lakeland27]

its a bit confusing, phones seem to answer the OP,  otherwise it says'in reply to'  the poster before.

[i-need-a-martini]

I don't understand why everyone goes off at them. They have a (professional) job to do and charge no more per hour than any other profession. In fact even the high rated law firms have hourly rates less than, say, a plumber. Only difference is the amount of time it takes to help people. All of that equals dollars.

[i-need-a-martini]

And I know a lot of lawyers and they are PARTY ANIMALS! Put a drink in their hand, a bit of disco music, point them towards a dance floor and they are there all night...

[polksaladallie]

For a lawyer to read an email costs more than I earned per hour in my last job.

[i-need-a-martini]

My doctor charges me $65 per a 15mins consultation. That is around 30% more expensive than the average rate by a solicitor in a small-medium firm in Sydney.

I went to a specialist the other day and was charged $350 for a 30mins consultation even though I was out of there in just over 10mins. That is about double the rate of a senior associate or a senior barrister in a medium sized city practice.

If I take into account my specialists visit was only 10mins, then the rate is double the rate of hiring a top QC. Aroud 85% more expensive.

How is it that we don't whine about doctors being bloodsuckers? 

[ashjoma]

Have not had much to do with them thankfully, but one of my friends used to say about things he did not like. and he was talking about chirporacters at the time

                    "they look very good down the barrel of my shotgun"

[cq_tech]

Unfortunately Martini, unlike the payments made to your medical doctors and specialists which are rebated by up to 80% by Medicare or your private health fund so you get the vast majority of it back, the same does not apply to members of the legal profession.

Perhaps that's why we don't whine about doctors being bloodsuckers. 🙂