Jonathan Cook wrote:

...Ok, I'll try...
cogent analysis snipped
But the way our system is now, the public face of lawyering that
most of us see is a system that wastes tremendous amounts of
money, channels that money to the wrong receipients, and as far
as we can tell is not interested in trying to reform itself. And
all this money doesn't come from nowhere, it comes from each of us
through our insurance premiums, costs of goods, etc., and so it
shouldn't be a surprise that we do get cynical.

Excellent summary to which I would add;

4. The perception that if you have enough money you can get away with
murder. Literally. It's not that our system of jurisprudence is for sale
exactly, it's that it costs lots of money, much more than John Q. Public
could ever hope to muster, to have a chance of a level playing field in
our courts. Expensive lawyering beats cheap, or free, lawyering most of
the time and while that's why good lawyers become expensive lawyers it
is a terrible indictment against our legal system.

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Ken Fortenberry