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by logfromblammo
3004 days ago
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> Finally, if you do not intend to go to trial you should not file a claim! Should not? When only 1% of civil cases actually do go to trial, and the system is set up to encourage settlement, that sounds like an ethical argument. There are plenty of lawyers out there that file their lawsuits primarily for the purposes of producing a settlement--patent trolls are an entire named subcategory of these. There are plenty of litigants out there that never even intend to get to discovery, and you can just forget about the trial. |
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There are plenty of unethical litigating attorneys out there.
Some legal cultures are much better at weeding them out than others; some legal cultures even cultivate them as if they are valuable to the profession and the society it is embedded in. They aren't. They're caustic, and worse, they occasionally become elected politicians and elected or appointed judges.