Isn't it a bit weird+ that personal injury lawyers are considered the scummiest lawyers?
I'm not saying they're all saints, but isn't it weird that the legal professionals who are the only reason corporations ever get held accountable for the harm they do to individuals are supposedly all really sketchy and a scourge on a society? "Ambulance chasers" they call them.
+when I say weird I mean convenient for rich people
I'm not saying you should make yourself rich off of other people's suffering, but frequently a personal injury lawyer is the only way someone can get any compensation for truly horrible things that have been done to them.
What is so sketchy about that exactly? Or is it the fact that they advertise at bus stops & in poor neighborhoods and run ads in Spanish? You know... advertising their services to the people most likely to need them due to being systemically disadvantaged.
@artemis
I'd bet half the people with this mindset would cite the McDonald's hot coffee case as the kind of scummy thing personal injury lawyers get into, despite it being debunked roughly 40 times a day on every Internet platform for twenty years, too.
"Oh, well, cases LIKE that..."
@thecrushedviolet
Exactly. Even when you show that it is straight-up, deliberate propaganda, they go "well, maybe not THAT case, but I know it happens all the time."
No, you don't... That's the propaganda talking.