VI2 wrote:
There is a trend to making everything illegal. Your qualifications to read tea leaves are no better than my own.
Well James, you got it right once. My qualifications for reading tea leaves are no better than your own. However, my qualifications for reading and understanding laws and court precedents are vastly superior to yours. (For what it's worth, I'm sure there must be something you are more qualified to do; I just don't know what it is.)
By the time "spoilation" reaches the condition that you anticipate, we will not be hiring lawyers for their knowledge of the law, but for their knowledge of connections.
(a) Since I have not discussed the topic of "spoilation" (or even spoliation) on this list, you are obviously reaching. You have no idea what I anticipate. (b) You have just given a very good additional reason to hire lawyers in addition to their obvious superiority in understanding legal trends. With regard to (b), not a lot of mainstream lawyers are going to be sympathetic or versed in the sorts of things you and other people on this list are likely to run afoul of. It's interesting to me that you and the other two village idiots seem hell bent on antagonizing your most likely legal allies. But then, you are village idiots. S a n d y