Are Lawyers really that bad ? ...Read on - Something i wrote during law school days .......Bharat Chugh
"Home is Home ...the devil said when he found himself in the court of sessions " ....this is just one among the conglomeration - pithily summed up by Shakespeare as ‘lets kill all the lawyers’. Most Apparently throughout the times lawyers have been subjected to such criticisms, but when you are practically brought up among lawyers & having always believed ‘B’ stands for a ‘bonafide’ that’s where it turns really disconcerting, makes you ponder this isn’t something I signed up for, burning midnight oil for 5 years just for all of it to be rendered infructous – I am not a devil its all good and fun, until just the mention of a ‘lawyer’ makes people’s mind to conjure up diverse images of contortionists, manipulators & expert liars.
Deeply moved, resort is here had to the pen to attempt salvage my creed from at least some negative discourse doing rounds since times immemorial. Indeed there are people (a good number) who are just no more than touts with zero understanding of law, masquerading as harbingers of justice, when they don’t care two hoots about the interests of their clients, their raison d’être nothing beyond – money.
Indeed it’s the reality of existence, lofty professional ethics in today’s world won’t fetch you bread, but for those who travel in big cars & try buy witnesses for people with equally large cars (but horrendous driving etiquettes) bring the entire profession to calumny with these being just a taste of other Tammany hall enterprises - they carry out.
But these are the exceptions, which should not be generalized, by far a good number are still knowledgeable and who would have truly made Lord Denning proud, and in this regard the Stellar role played by great lawyers, the likes of Mahatma Gandhi & Jawaharlal Nehru in the Indian Independence Movement & the framing of the Constitution, & in the international scenario the likes of Abraham Lincoln, needs to be emphasized & highlighted more, to present an image befitting the members of this noble profession, who have never desisted from acting as the saviors of rights & entitlements of the common man, and being progressive minded people have been the initiators of social change throughout human history.
