[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge, as in other places the client trusts it to a counsellor; by this means they both cut off many delays and find out truth more certainly; for after the parties have laid open the merits of the cause, without those artifices which lawyers are apt to suggest, the judge examines the whole matter, and supports the simplicity of such well-meaning persons, whom otherwise crafty men would be sure to run down; and thus they avoid those evils which appear very remarkably among all those nations that labour under a vast load of laws.
Saint Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
Utopia beckons?
In my neck of the woods, it’s been Union-led nurses and teachers strikes in the State of NSW. They’re demanding a pay rise and better working conditions. I can’t help but chuckle at why lawyers would ever need to strike? Surely it’s not the pay or the working conditions…Unions also seem to have their hold over lawyers in UK. The lawyers need a good lawyer. Pro-bono.
Job opportunities abound across the pond Don.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfkhS1R8A2Q&t=34s
Only New Yawkers make good labor negotiators.
@Art- Scorsese take note.
Union bosses are worse than used car salesmen, right next to real estate agents (sorry to those professions reading this- I know I’m generalising here). A few of those Unionists have made it to PM in Australia. They forget that in order to hold their employers to ransom, they need to GET employed by them first.