David Freiheit (Viva Frei)

There are scumbag lawyers who have evidence, who destroy evidence, who lie.

And I think that there are... Look, this is my own personal experience.

There are more bad, dishonest, disingenuous lawyers than there are good.

And the old trope, you know, 90% of the lawyers give the other 10% a bad reputation.

It's true.

And it's not a coincidence either that so many lawyers, or I should say so many politicians, are former lawyers because they are people...

trained to abuse of the law to get the outcome that they want not that the outcome that is just right and at the end of the day that's the nature of the profession you need um you know if if a lawyer is not actively and vigorously pursuing the interests of his or her clients they're not doing their job the only problem is people found vigorously pursuing the interests of a client with doing anything in the in the battle that can be justified so long as it's legal and then even then you can fudge the lines

People hate lawyers for a reason.

Well, there's two ways to answer this.

Robert Barnes, everybody should watch us on Sunday night.

He often says the members of the bar protect the members of the bar.

And it is something like a government institution that exists to protect its members.

But you become on the outs of the institution, or if you are fundamentally on the outs of the institution, like as an independent lawyer, solo practitioner, they will throw the book at you.

I mean, you get certain solo lawyers who are not in the big firms, who are not politically connected, and you do something unethical, put it in quotes, they'll throw the book at you.

The same way if you're a politician who's on the outs of the party, they'll throw the book at you.

George Santos being in jail for however many years is a prime example.

But it's there to protect itself.

And ultimately, even in the medical profession, to some extent, there is this, call it a white line in the medical profession.

These licensure associations protect the people they want to protect, and they throw the book at those who are on the outs.

And I went from a big law firm to starting my own law firm.