The Trouble with Lawyers shows how the American Middle Class is victimized by a segment of the American legal profession. It is a book of critical importance for anyone involved in an accident case, a divorce, the buying or selling of a home, the sale of a business or the probating of an estate. It should be of equally vital concern to responsible lawyers and judges.
The relationship between certain lawyers and their clients grows increasingly more lopsided every year as lawyers make themselves bigger and greedier partners of their middle-class clients. How do they do this? Through minimum fee price-fixing agreements that are supposed to be supported by our courts - the same courts that denounce price-fixing when it's tried by business or industry.
In the Trouble with Lawyers Murray Teigh Bloom reveals with names and cases:
How crooked or unethical lawyers have the odds overwhelmingly in their favor when disbarment threatens...
How lawyer thefts from clients are climbing and why bar associations are afraid to get to the heart of the problem.
Why it is almost impossible to sue and collect from a lawyer who has lied to you, given you you expensively bad advice or simply forgotten to take care of your case until it was too late.
How the organized bar censors high school texts and TV scripts that show lawyers in an unfavorable light ....
How the lawyers have enriched themselves through the court-finagled guardianships over the mentally ill, the aged and our defenseless Indians.
How one state finally succeeded in its campaign to "stop the lawyers" ...
What can be done - in spite of lawyer domination of Congress and our state legislatures - to give us a better break and fairer fees when we need legal services. ....
Mr. Bloom spent three years researching this book, to demonstrate the faults and failures of lawyers and the fear of reform from within. As he writes. "We need our lawyers and, in an increasingly complex world, will need them more and more. But we need them on fairer terms. "
