Week 5 EOC: Lawyers Looking for Fame

I think it is an interesting battle between experts and amateurs. The statistics show an increasing number of experts filing for supreme court cases within the past 30 years. And there is definitely a connection between that and what law shool’s are specializing in. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/10/10/us/politics/10lawyers-graphic.html?ref=us

Maybe the schools know that new justices have been appointed within a few decades and they are realizing the fact the supreme court justices traditional nature may not be the same. However it seems that those who are expert advocate are the ones who see a revolution of some sort and are leading the way. It may be true that the advocates or lawyers have to compassion towards any of their clients. Rather they are more interested in the case being in the supreme court itself. Like I said in previous blogs, they would only take a case that interest them, knowing that they will win because that’s how they get paid. Although their clients are poor, like the Humberto Fernandez-Vargas case. It will give them priceless experience by handling a case in the supreme court.

“But there was a catch, and then a controversy. The catch was that the Washington lawyer, David M. Gossett, would take the case only if he could argue before the Supreme Court himself.”.

It may seem that the supreme court justices may have become more objective in recent years. It also seems like the lawyers are battling back with numbers because of that. The more objective the lawyers would be, coinciding with objective justices the more the law takes its course in a more natural path. The Lawyers would simply be predetermining the outcome of a case even before it is presented before the supreme court. By defending people with no money it gives them a sustainable business. Supreme court clients are merely tools in the market for them to achieve a higher state, higher pay or a better reputation in the courts.

Since cases only make it to the supreme court only if they are complex, I wouldn’t mind at all if I was proposed by a lawyer to handle my case for free in the supreme court. If Im willing to fight for something in court and a lawyer took up my case I would be delighted knowing that the nature of my case is that important and complex, I would let the law take its course. We are pawns in this game, lie to me lie to the justice, just win my case!