Week 5 Eoc: Lawyers looking for Fame

I have to agree that lawyers are greedy for fame. Lawyers are always bragging that they got to argue in front of the Supreme Court, and that they are pretty much the top lawyer for doing so. Even if they lost the case. Which you would think that losing the case would make them look like idiots, or incompetent to the laws we have in the United States. And for example, there are, “Supreme Court-seeking programs at law schools and prominent…attorneys try to scope out cases with Supreme Court potential to gain experience and bragging rights arguing before the court.” (http://washingtonindependent.com/100309/expert-supreme-court-lawyers-blamed-for-immigration-rulings)  Some of these Supreme Court cases that have been argued are going to so-called expert lawyers, and in some cases these lawyers have argued in the Supreme Court more than five times more or work for law firms who have had argued cases many times in the Supreme Court.  Also, “Fewer than 1 in 10,000 practicing attorneys ever stand at the Supreme Court lectern.” (http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/young_cleveland_lawyer_to_argu.html) Also most lawyers say that they are only involved in a case for the individual client, and client needs, but really it is just a front for them to get the case and to try and make it a Supreme Court case, even if it is not a Supreme Court case. Also when lawyers do this and take case to the Supreme Court the court might rule against them and making a new law which will affect later cases down the road. Most lawyers who appear before the Supreme Court are lawyers who do come from large law firms. Also these large law firms who are taking the cases to the Supreme Court are giving their services for free because they know that they will be heading to the Supreme Court to argue. This also means the law firm would, “draw prestige and paying clients to their firms.”  (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-roberts-court-new-breed-lawyers-races-argue-supreme-cou) So yes I would have to agree the lawyers are only in it for the fame and fortune.