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It's kind of unfair to target lawyers in cases like this. The real problem is combination of a patchwork legal system and powerful people's willingness to explo
by rqebmm 12y ago
It's kind of unfair to target lawyers in cases like this. The real problem is combination of a patchwork legal system and powerful people's willingness to exploit it for personal gain.
Lawyers are just the _means_ by which those people exploit the system. They're also the means by which people who are wronged can get justice, so they're exploitation agnostic.
- polarix 12y agoThey're not agnostic -- they tie the probability of proper representation directly to capital capacity.
- pdabbadabba 12y agoRight. Which, in the case of a massive data breach, would tend to cause them to line up behind the potential plaintiffs, not the defendant. In reality, in cases like this, both sides will have top notch representation. (The problem, of course, is that there are cases where the stakes are non-monetary, or the plaintiff places a much greater value on a relatively small amount of money than a lawyer would...but I don't think that's really what we're talking about here.)