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I've been trying to learn how to catch on to threading into one of the discussions.... sometimes I'm able to and sometimes not... can't pin it down yet, but perhaps with a little more experience I'll get the hang of it.

On your topic of "Attorn" and attorneys, just thought I'd stir the pot with this:


Los Angeles Times News Artcle
By Times Staff Writer, JEAN GUOCIONE

This was faxed to me by a friend on 02/12/2003 ( I keep interesting articles in a file)

Michael Brady helped write a law creating an assistance program for lawyers battling substance abuse... He was a prominent defense attorney whose drinking and cocaine use made him quit practicing law altogether. After being released from a California Rehabilitation Center he pledged to help other chemical-dependent attorneys and helped write law creating the State Bar of California's new Lawyer Assistance Program. It was introduced and enacted into law in 2001.
"Brady said the American Bar Assoc. estimates that 15% to 18% of the nation's lawyers are alcoholics, compared with 10% of the general adult population. He also cited a Law and Psychology Review article concluding that 10% of practicing lawyers suffer from physcological distress. Based on those statistics, he believes as many as 38,000 of California's 135,805 attorneys suffer from alcoholism, drug addiction, depression or other mental disorders"

Don't want to take up alot of room here by writing down the entire article, however when I got this news article and read it. It pretty much summed up to me that being an attorney is hazardous to a client's health.

Look at the percentages....and I can verify that with first hand personal knowledge and experience at the hands of some of those slick tongued professionals. My own admitted to me that he was under psychiatric care, and opted out of a case I had about on the eve of a hearing. Not long afterward when checking his name in the bar records, I discovered that he resigned with charges against him.

Why are there so many names for this profession... ATTORNEY, LAWYER, COUNSELOR. It's my understanding that in the days of our founding father's these person's were looked upon as being despicable, and were termed "petty foggers".

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