“Ooooopppps! Mababawasan yata ang paghanga ko ko kay Anthony.Kala ko walang sinasanto ang mabuting lawyers?”

in due time i might comment

“Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, the sheer number of mediocre lawyers in circulation contributes to the corruption you cite??? I think you have stumbled into a novel theory of efficiency there….”

supply and demand is not a novel theory. when there’s oversupply of lawyers in our country, services charge will be cheap and quality of service is what the consumers will eventually pay. that’s what efficiency of market in the service sector is all about. same thing with products.

in our current system , people cannot get a good lawyer. we don’t have a government subsidies service that will allow individual to hire a lawyer at a low price. No one represents our people. Most of the corrupt lawyers, represent the corporation and to hide the government’s fault.

there’s a big gap between practice and needs. How many lawyers in a given population ( philippines 85 million people) should compete for quality and price of service?

The Singapore government is attempting to address the shortage with moves like setting up a new law school within the Singapore Management University, increasing the intake for the National University of Singapore (NUS) law faculty and allowing foreign firms and lawyers to practice in the country. Courses include business and corporate law, intellectual property law, financial law and regulation and a variety of others including a course in ethics and social responsibility. The first students were accepted last August.

“The law is being routinely and blatantly abused for political purposes,” Singapore, he says, “has turned into a lawless country, a country run according to the pleasure of Lee Kuan Yew; not according to law. A legal system where if you knew the identities of the litigants, you can predict the outcome of the trial with absolute accuracy. That is if Lee Kuan Yew or his family were parties to an action, the outcome of the litigation is known even before you step into court! Lee wins. Hapless opponent loses.”

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1109&Itemid=34

But – - – - “disengage” makes sense.

I’m writing a new tv pilot, it’s a workplace drama about a very brilliant lawyer who represents both the prosecution and the defense in some yet unnamed Islands country.

I’m developing the character at the moment. He has very honest intentions but cannot process certain bits of information.

I wonder if you know of any experts I can hire as consultants or better yet a middle aged actor who has the gravitas of hugh laurie. It will be ten times full of sarcasm and insults and witty banter and it’s a very physical role because the character has to run across the court as he lawyers for both parties.

ta.

that’s it. I need to disengage myself from this and go back to my cave for a bit.

jefferson is the same man who said “free the slaves” yet kept slaves of his own?

what a very apt analogy for ‘namamangka sa dalawang ilog’. you know your history well. i give you that.

Good luck to you!!! I hope that the letter from IntegBarPhilippines to the California Bar suffices and the “moral character” California requirement gets resolved in your favor.

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nash: and may they burn in hell the pedophiles. Also the aggressors in non-consensual sex.

lincoln and jefferson are lawyers and are well-venerated. the “rotten apples” in the profession should not be taken as an argument for despising lawyers, which you claim this representation is one.

but i cannot quite comprehend why would everybody would want to go to a school whose best by-product finds it fun and exciting insulting people.

i am proud of my school because we do not have as a curriculum “ad hominem” 101. and I am profuse in my apology if I have insulted anyone in this site.