When I think of lawyers, I think of liars. I have never had to deal with lawyers personally, but watching movies like “Liar, Liar” with Jim Carey, “Erin Brockovich” with Julia Roberts, and “And Justice for All”, I can just get a feel for what a lawyer really does. They help criminals get off amazingly horrible crimes, and sometimes lawyers are incredibly unreliable. Of course, this is all what I think, I wouldn’t actually know, but I do know that lawyers have to lie to win their cases, even if they are lying for all the wrong reasons, they seem to mostly be in it for the money.
The two movies I really appreciate though that have to do with lawyers is “My Cousin Vinny” and “Law Abiding Citizen”. “Law Abiding Citizen” really opened my eyes in what lawyers had to do, especially in a murder case, and what hoops they have jump through and what risks they have to take, and what deals that have to make in certain cases. To really even think that someone could outsmart a lawyer though is mind-boggling. In “My Cousin Vinny”, even though at first it didn’t seem like the lawyer knew didn’t know what he was doing, he eventually learned the ways of the court and that everything a defense attorney would normal conjure up would be just an illusion, one that could possibly fool the jury and everyone in the court as well to think what they wanted them to think.
I suppose it all depends on what type of lawyer you have to deal with and what type of case it is that you need one in the first place. Otherwise, I hope I don’t have to deal with lawyers anytime soon, as I don’t have the money to even begin to think of paying for one.
