You keep putting lawyers up on pedestals and then trying to knock them down. Your question to me implies that lawyers are such specialists that you could never

You keep putting lawyers up on pedestals and then trying to knock them down. Your question to me implies that lawyers are such specialists that you could never be expected to do their job. You do realize that law school teaches next to nothing about the actual practice, right? The rest is learned by doing. In most courts around the world, you have the right to defend yourself. If you think your time is worth more than a lawyer's, then pay a lawyer. The whole victim routine is tired.