https://vinnews.com/2025/11/04/a-letter-every-lawyer-should-read
I am a lawyer. I take money to tear families apart. I specialize in divorce, which is a polite way of saying I weaponize the law for whoever pays me. My current client has what I used to call “control issues” before I stopped using clinical terms to describe what I enable. She doesn’t want her ex-husband to see their daughter. She doesn’t want his parents—people who once rocked that child to sleep, who celebrated her first steps, who love her—to see her either. I help her do this.
I draft the motions. I coach her testimony. I know exactly which phrases make a judge hesitate, which insinuations plant doubt without proof. I am very good at what I do. Do I enjoy this? I used to tell myself no. Now I’m not sure I’m capable of honest self-reflection anymore. I rationalize it the way every lawyer learns to rationalize: if I don’t take this case, someone else will. Someone less skilled, perhaps, who won’t win as decisively. At least I’m competent. At least I’m professional. At least I return phone calls promptly.
There's a special place in hell for lawyers like this, in line with the faux מאמר חז"ל that I just made up: טוב שבעורכי דין לגיהנם.
ReplyDeleteA divorce is when two otherwise normal people decide to give all their money to their lawyers and destroy their children's lives
ReplyDeleteSometimes one of them prefers counselling and is willing to try to make things work, while the other one is egged on by lawyers from hell to go the divorce route.
DeleteFascinating how the people who stand to make the most of a viscious breakdown encourage that very thing.
DeleteThe same for unscrupulous surgeons who push for performing operations that are not really needed.
DeleteNot really, no.
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