Originally Posted by Gillianren

I think you're looking at lawyers from a different perspective than the one in which they're most useful. I just went through the Social Security process, and a lawyer was an important thing to have there--but even there, it wasn't the most useful place to have one. That would be a criminal trial in which I was innocent.

I don't think lawyers are a necessary evil. That's because I don't think specialization of function is evil.