Talk:Wild Week/@comment-109.98.151.22-20190807013835/@comment-2602:30A:2EAA:9E0:54DC:F1BC:E768:33B7-20190808085254

"So when you graduated law school, did you do well enough to get recruited to a law firm? or did you go public, it would appear not as your talking about finding one? or did you become a lawyer at all? instead just becoming  a closet lawyer?"

(I'm not that particularly Fandom User, btw, but apparently you can't fling your own shit without hitting multiple lawyers after all)

I know you're mostly just trying to make personal attacks and not necessarily trying to base your observations of logic or knowledge, but you should note that not all lawyers specialize in the same thing. I graduated from a pretty solid law school, and the vast majority of people I know who went private and make a decent amount of money do tax law, patent prosecution, or corporate law. Big corporations do get involved in a lot of litigation, but a ton of their work (I would estimate a majority, but my knowledge is only second hand) is transactional stuff--compliance, contract review and drafting, etc. Out of the fraction of my classmates who are involved in litigation, an even smaller fraction specialize in class actions. Even if you don't need special licensing to file a class action suit, it's generally a bad idea to use a non-specialist.

Plus, a smart lawyer knows it's generally a bad idea to represent yourself--the ability to be a bit dispassionate is one benefit of representation--and an even worse idea to represent yourself in a matter outside your practice area, over something you're pissed about. I'd like to think I'm a pretty decent lawyer, but I generally won't take even simple jobs outside of filing a patent. This goes double if I ever needed a lawyer myself. I no nothing about criminal law or criminal procedure outside of what I learned from law school, and the bit I learned to educate myself about political issues I care about, so there's no way in hell I'd represent myself in an area I'm unqualifed to practice, all while I'm probably pissed off at being wrongly accused and scared I'm going to prison. Ditto if I ever felt the need to sue someone--chances are I'm going to feel pissed off and wronged, and if I'm too focused on showing the world what an asshole the defendant is, I'm probably going to make a mistake, or overlook a better but less karmically satisfying way to win.

"I can see now you seated across from the the most junior deputy prosecutor, and his asking, "ok please describe to me the injuries you sustained in this, uh...a porn game? "

Cleary you haven't seen the inside of a federal courtroom. There is a ton of federal litigation (a lot of it criminal) over things that don't have an obvious victim and that the average person wouldn't expect to be illegal. This doesn't make it logical, or fair, or right, but that doesn't change the fact that federal prosecutors routinely convince judges and juries that those laws and regulations should be enforced. In fact, there are pretty big political movements motivated primarily by the idea that this sort of thing is fucked up and that we should change it.