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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 12:48 AM EDT |
Nice dodge, PJ. The air must be thin where you are, too.
See, people make mistakes, even when they have the luxury of their own bully
pulpit and no real pressure or accountability for their actions. More so, people
make errors even when they're experts in a profession and they're using their
cynical expertise to mock or call into question the competence of average
citizens of the United States who are fulfilling their civic duty under the
Constitution to decide matters presented to them in a Court of Law.
Seriously, it would take a jumbo jet full of attorneys at least six months to go
through each of those instructions, argue over every single cent, attempt to
settle every issue, and eventually crash the jumbo jet into a mountain because
they thought they could fly the plane better than the pilot. (Their surviving
partners would try to sue the airline and get billable hours out of it.)
That's why attorneys don't get to decide. They think they're never wrong and
have a hard time admitting it even when it's proven to them. In fact, they think
they grok the process so well, that they can second-guess and speculate about
the amateur jury's actions, even though their obvious error on .002857% of the
items is still a much better score than most attorneys can boast on their second
or third try at the Bar exam. As all Latin lovers know, "amateur" is
not a
derogatory word in this context but speaks to the citizen's love of duty to the
nation, surrendering family, home, job, and friends to do the duty to which they
are assigned.
If you'd like that percentage in dollars, I'm sure you can do that math. It's
mathematically similar to attorneys who overbill a client and the client
discovers
the overcharge and asks for a correction. Then the attorney immediately asks for
clarification but finds in his own records an error which he can correct before
the
reply comes, and of course the attorney expects the client to accept that it was
an honest mistake and not a sign of negligence or incompetence. (Okay, I made
that last part up. The attorney is just going to stonewall and threaten the
client
with a lien until the bill is paid in full.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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