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Home » Issues » Crime and Punishment From the Left   From the Right Lawyers No other profession has been subjected to as much ridicule as lawyers. Perhaps it is the notion that no longer the advocates for those in search of justice for a grievance, they have instead become the parasites who profit of the misery of others, and will go out of their ways to generate cases where at times no wrong has existed. Everyone knows of the “slip and fall” cases in small mom and pop establishments where a shady character and her or his equally shady lawyer will seek to extort money from fearful business owners who are afraid of losing everything they worked so hard for their entire lives to a lawyer who is inundating them with legal documents that make little sense. Add to this the onslaught of liberal lawyers who are waging war against the very fabric of morality and justice that holds this country together, and it is not at all surprising that more and more citizens are holding all lawyers in contempt. After all, if a lawyer simply uses her or his superior knowledge of the American legal system to cower her or his opponents – what difference is there between a member of the mob and a lawyer? Republicans will need to help to restore the integrity of the legal system to help lawyers to regain the respectability they appear to have lost. Protecting the intellectual property of citizens, defending the rights of the accused, giving legal advice on a large variety of matters, and prosecuting the guilty to the full extent of the law are all honorable undertakings that many forget fall into the realm of lawyers.