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“I wish
the reality of our profession—at least as viewed by
the people we purport to serve—could be seen as a
"glass half-full." I am afraid, however, that
because lawyers view justice differently than
nonlawyers, we are drinking from different cups. For
too long, we who are in the system of justice have
insisted that those outside defer to our point of
view. I think it is time we look at ourselves
through their eyes.
. . .
“If the
non-lawyers in our society truly expect that we are
interested in justice (as the majority of people
understand it to be), we first must accept the fact
that we are not now, and quite possibly never have
been, viewed by our community as the professionals
we claim to be. Instead, we are viewed (in many ways
rightly so) as the educated and wealthy elite,
making our living by helping the legally illiterate
maneuver through the procedural waters of the law
that we have created and that cannot be navigated
without us. It is an unfortunate reality that those
who are not educated in the law are required to
navigate these waters as a condition of their
membership in this society.”
—David L. Geislinger,
What Price Justice? Why Was Amendment 40 Even on
the Ballot?, 36 Colo.Law. 5 (May, 2007) at 77.
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