On Average, You Cannot Trust Bar Association Lawyers

to Tell You the Truth About the Living Trust

or Estate Planning!

1. The public is in a legal crisis, but bar association lawyers don't think so! They are happy all the way to the bank. Bar association lawyers control a system for which they have no accountability to any regulatory body charged with protecting the public interest.

2. Reform is needed, but it will never come from lawyers or the bar associations!

3. Part of the problem is that lawyers are not regulated by government; they license and regulate themselves!

4. The American Bar Association and state affiliates control the practice of law. They license and regulate themselves; you can only imagine the results of such a self-serving system!

5. The bar monopoly over the licensing, regulation, and practice of law is a system that has evolved without any concern for the public interest. Lawyers serve themselves, not the public.

6. The national and state bar associations are the only private membership associations in the history of the United States that control an entire branch of government without regulation or supervision by government itself!

7. The legal system serves itself, does not serve the public interest, and poisons our culture.

8. Whether or not you receive fair treatment, or justice from our legal system is entirely dependent on how much money you have.

9. You cannot trust any lawyer to work in your best interests unless it also maximizes the lawyer’s income.

10. This is especially true with estate planning where general practitioner lawyers derive 20% of their income from probating estates.

11. They will not tell a client that they can avoid probate with a living trust.

12. On average, lawyers charge by the hour. They keep track of their own time. Such a system is ripe for abuse because no one can verify whether the lawyer has spent the time claimed for which he or she bills the client. Is the lawyer charging for their time in the shower when thinking about your case? Is that billable time? There are 2,000 working hours in a year. If a lawyer has a full-time practice and regularly bills more than 2,000 hours per year, chances are they are cheating. There is no standard in the practice of law which lawyers must follow to be ethical in their billing practices.

13. Stealing money from clients is routine. Even the nice young man or woman, or older lawyer you’ve known for years, and think is a pretty good person, cheats! Opposing counsel is not going to complain to the judge about another lawyer’s billing practices because they do the same thing. If you complain to the bar association, they will not even investigate.

14. There is no regulation by any government agency over the fees charged by lawyers. The only standard is lawyers must charge reasonable rates. What is reasonable? $100, $200, $300, $400, $500, or a $1,000 per hour. The judge handling each case is the one who determines reasonableness. But he’s a bar association lawyer. Do you think he or she is objective about what is a reasonable hourly fee? They think like lawyers and do not enforce any billing standards.

15. Lawyering is not a profession. It adheres to no ethical standards, even though they have codes of professional responsibility which are not enforced.

16. Lawyers, on average, lie regularly on behalf of their clients, lie regularly to their clients, and steal money from their clients because there are no checks and balances, or regulation of any kind by any non-lawyer or governmental entity.

17. Every day lawyers engage in the practice of deception, cheating, over-charging, dissimulation, misrepresentation, lying, and theft.

18. Lawyers control their monopoly and suppress competition through unauthorized practice of law (UPL) statutes which are so vague that they can declare anything UPL, even though these statutes and practices violate freedom of speech and other constitutional rights.

19. Lawyer's passion about UPL is so emotional and hysterical that it resembles religious belief. They want no competition that threatens their power, control, or income. Wasn't America built on the premise that competition serves the public interest?

20. The American Bar Association and state affiliates violate anti-trust statutes, which prohibit monopolies that harm the public interest, every day of the week! Such monopolistic practices are an intrinsic, intentional strategy of the legal profession.