Not the kind who swim i the ocean, the ones with juris doctorates.
The Washington Post reported that lawyers are lining up to sue the bejesus out of BP for the oil spill in the gulf.
An excerpt:
"The law firms now assembling are members of the all-star team of plaintiffs' attorneys. They have experience suing big companies over asbestos, tobacco, oil company waste, breast implants and Chinese drywall. They have represented Ecuadoran shrimp farmers and New York lobstermen, patients who have swallowed Vioxx and investors who lost money on shares of Enron. And their ranks include the likes of Erin Brockovich, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former partners of Johnnie L. Cochran Jr."
Here is one case where you're cheering the lawyers. As much as people denigrate lawyers, here is an instance where they can do some good, can exact justice from. In short, they can make BP pay.
No, I am not cheering the lawyers. Too much of the money paid out by the oil companies will wind up in their pockets, and payment of the claims will be delayed by the size of their demands.
A reasonable meeting of the minds, where the aggreived and the offender could meet without lawyers delaying the process and inflating the costs of the transaction would be infinitely preferable.
Lawyers may be a necessary evil, but I will never cheer them as they delay the process with their tactics and take large portions of the awards to line their own pockets.