[arfar]

Personally, I find it hard to blame lawyers on the whole for this.

A lawyers job is to represent their client as best as they possibly can (within the rules of the law). The best outcome for Oracle here is copyright is valid for APIs, it's then the lawyers job to try to get that outcome. It is illegal (i.e. disbarred) for a lawyer (in New Zealand at least) to refuse instruction without a good enough reason.

It should be judges/the law which stops these silly verdicts from occurring.