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People are sometimes seriously injured by defective products. It is a simple fact and one we all understand. Remember the Chevy Corvair. Ralph Nader got famous by writing about them in his book "Unsafe at Any Speed."
I think it started some of this craziness.
It is also true that people do some really stupid stuff with products. Things the products were not designed to do. They get hurt sometimes. One fellow thought it would be a good idea to trim his hedges with a rotary mower.
He sued and lost. Most of what the average guy hears on the news about this kind of litigation is there because it us unusual. The run of the mill expected results are not newsworthy.
I agree that there are good and bad lawyers. Just like there are good and bad of all professions. I am a lawyer.
I have found that whether people think I am a good lawyer largely depends on which side of the case they happen to be on. Few lawyers are always bad or always good.
I was apalled that a lawyer friend of mine took a case that involved a man who used a rotary mower on his old tractor. This fellow did not know much about tractors so he did not use an override clutch. He got the idea right after being shoved on through a barbed wire fence. He sued. He lost. He should have lost. Get the idea? Occasionally some good comes from litigation. It can expose fraud for example. It can result in dangerous products being recalled. It does result in stupid warnings being placed in booklets and companies trying to avoid failure to warn lawsuits. Your doctor tells you about the risks of your surgery. If he does't you cannot give an informed consent. Would he do it unless a lawyer and a judge and a bunch of our fellow citizens sitting on a jury had repeatedly awarded money to some poor guy who wasn't told about the risks and got injured?
Lawyer's make their arguments to juries. Juries award the money, not other lawyers. Vericts come from juries afther the lawyers have their evidence laid before them. Lawyers usually will not let other lawyers stay on juries. The bad ones will bank on your gullability. Sometimes they get lucky...but only when "We the people..." let them.

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