Never Fear the Attorney is Here

We have become a litigious society. We want recourse for every perceived wrong and accident. We have more attorneys than any other country in the world. Are we better off or worse off with all this representation?Here in Georgia, like other states in the Union there are attorneys for any purpose conceivable; Georgia defense attorneys, Georgia tax attorneys, Georgia patent law attorneys, Georgia workers compensation attorneys, Georgia social security disability attorneys, Georgia family attorneys and the list goes on.Often having a plethora of attorneys is too many, you see this in the tort cases. Heavy competition results in more cases, over loaded courtrooms and no one taking responsibility for anything, everything becomes a law suit. But on the other hand because we do have recourse for injuries inflicted business have to be more careful with safety, tax code violations, workers compensation and other serious problems facing our business practices in the past.For millenniums workers had zero rights of recourse but now with employment and workers compensation attorneys workers have rights to work reasonable hours for reasonable pay with reasonable safety methods implemented. Has the pendulum swung too far? Yes, I suppose it has, but hopefully we are on the right course to bring moderation and common sense into our judicial system. States are putting caps on law suits and our Federal justice system is looking at doing the same. People have to be held accountable for egregious wrongs willfully committed but accidents and mishaps need to be handled with prudence. We have to have wise judges and juries to self manage the system.