The lawyer was at the scene and persuaded my
daughter to "retain" her as the attorney. My daughter was in college at
the time and never had any experience with lawyers. She at first hesitate
to retain this lawyer but the lawyer scared her into signing the papers
to give the lawyer legal rights to "represent" my daughter.

Sounds like the title of this thread should be "DO NOT BE STUPID."

My daughter was involved in an automobile accident but fortunately was
not hurt badly.

However, she was in the stage of shock initially.

Then
came a lawyer who claimed she just happened to drive by and stopped to
"assist" my daughter. The lawyer was at the scene and persuaded my
daughter to "retain" her as the attorney. My daughter was in college at
the time and never had any experience with lawyers. She at first hesitate
to retain this lawyer but the lawyer scared her into signing the papers
to give the lawyer legal rights to "represent" my daughter.

Following the accident, the lawyer sent my daughter to a doctor, who
turned out to be her friend. Since the lawyer knew how much my daughter's
medical insurance coverage was, she told the doctor and later we found
out the doctor's bill was outrageously and unreasonably high.

After several months of waiting we received a message from the lawyer
that the other side would settle the case since it was determined that
they were at fault.
We now have learned that the lawyer received money from both my insurance
company and the other side's insurance company. And this lawyer is
keeping almost all of the money.
Below the worst and the sleaziest criminal on Earth are lawyers. In fact,
my experience has taught me that at least 90% of lawyers are scumbags. I
dream of a world without these parasitic sub=humans who call themselves
"attorneys at law".

Deciding that 90% of lawyers are scum bags based on the
actions of one is very unfair. Most are ethical and honest.

"Kent Wills" <compuelf@gmail.com> wrote
I just don't see it.
Their entire profession is dishonest- it's a standard for performance.
As 'law' has little to do with 'justice' or 'morality', they're
comfortable with deeming all sorts of things to be acceptable in the
context of their profession.
I worked for a lawyer who maintained that he lied 'professionally'- that
was his training and his charter. His confrere` were the same- while
they may act ethically, and that was a significant question in itself,
they had no qualms about doing something utterly immoral by any
standard. It's a disgusting profession, in the main-
hell; look at their general reputation-
they're despised.

If you were in need of a lawyer would you hire
the one who was ethical or the one who got you the
result you wanted?

"Mitchell Holman" <NoemailPlease@comcast.com> wrote
Guaranteed, or just shoot the moon?

Either one.
No one wants a "nice" lawyer, they want a pit
bull in the courtroom who will get them what they
want.

"Mitchell Holman" <NoemailPlease@comcast.com> wrote
If you were in need of a lawyer would you hire
the one who was ethical or the one who got you the
result you wanted?
Guaranteed, or just shoot the moon?
That's because the courtroom is supposed to be 'neutral', and abide by a
set of ethical standards. If they wanted a criminal, better they hire an
assassin. That's what the Law was supposed to replace.
A vigorous attorney needs not be a crook- and at that, if a crook, at
least a crook on your side. I've just seen too many of them collude with
the opponent to their own advantage- bribed by the opposition.
And that's not even to speak to criminal-law attorneys. The least of
them seems to be open to selling their clients down the river for
personal/professional aggrandizement.

How does a defense lawyer get "aggrandizement" by
selling their clients down the river?