Friday, March 11, 2005

Take it to the Bankruptcy

The Senate passed the Bankruptcy reform bill, and the house is expected to follow. An interesting provision makes lawyers vouch for the validity of their clients numbers, and holds the attorney liable if they're found innaccurate. I get that all lawyers are bad and they should be shot, but this strikes me as weird, and counter productive to the justice system. This just feels like a backdoor way to nail the lawyers at the citizens expense. I suppose we could do the same in criminal and civil courts as well, but I'm not sure that justice is served with this sledgehammer approach.

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