Lawyer-bashing revisited

According to a survey conducted by The National Law Journal in August 1993, seventy-three percent of all Americans believe lawyers are less honest than most people. Also, even though 70% of those surveyed had contact with an attorney, either personal or business, in the past 5 years, less than 1/2 b...

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Published in:Quality (Wheaton) 1994-04, Vol.33 (4), p.12-12
Main Author: Grant, Paul J
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys
Bar associations
Humor
Jokes
Mass media
Perceptions
Public opinion
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Summary:According to a survey conducted by The National Law Journal in August 1993, seventy-three percent of all Americans believe lawyers are less honest than most people. Also, even though 70% of those surveyed had contact with an attorney, either personal or business, in the past 5 years, less than 1/2 based their impressions of lawyers on that experience. Rather, 28% admitted that their perception of lawyers was influenced primarily by portrayals of lawyers on television or in books or movies. Lawyers help those who cannot help themselves, speak for those who have been driven to silence, and appear for those whom society has made invisible. At the forefront of the battles for women's suffrage, civil rights, and equal access for the physically challenged there have been lawyers.
ISSN:0360-9936
1937-4410