Lawyers Under Fire

One Of The Nation'S Mostprominent Lawyers Has Written That The American Justice System Is Corrupt Tothe Core.? Numerous Others Expresssimilar Sentiments Particularly Emphasizing The Loss Of Professionalism.Lawyers Under Fire Provides Ample Basisfor Concluding That The Legal Profession Is In A Failing Conditioncharacterized By Flawed Practices And Deplorable Ethics.? Respected Experienced Lawyers Call For Keyimprovements But Nothing More Than Cosmetic Changes Ever Happen.? Anecdotal Evidence Demonstrates The Need Ofdrastic Reforms But The Real Push For Correction Must Come From The Non-Lawyering Public.?Criminal Trials Must Become Something More Than Lotteries.? The Adversarial System Must Eventually Beeliminated.To Solve One Of The Most Seriousshortcomings Of All Inadequate Legal Service For All Of The Poor Theprofession Must Turn To The Only Logical Change That Can Answer That Problem.From The Book - Americanacceptance Of The Conduct Of Trial Lawyers Should Make Clear Something That Hasdisturbed People For Over Half A Century.?How Could The Great Mass Of German People Have Tolerated The Evils Ofthe Nazi Regime When They Had To Have Known At Least In Part What Wasoccurring?? The German People Permittedthemselves To Believe That The Death Camps And The Torture Chambers Were Therealm Of The Storm Troopers And That What That Group Did Was Not The Concern Ofthe Greater German Populace.? They Hadbeen Fully Occupied With Their Own Concerns.Now We Deal With A Lessermagnitude Of Evil But One In Which Most Americans Know Full Well What Ishappening.? Yet We Do Nothing.? We Continue Pretending That The Criminaljustice System Is The Realm Of The Lawyers And Therefore That What They Do Isnot The Concern Of The Greater American Populace Whose Members Are Fullyoccupied With Their Own Concerns.