I have heard a claim that somehow the relationship of an attorney and client is similar to that of a doctor and patient. It is true that both attorneys and doctors are "service" professionals but beyond that the professions separate.
The doctor's mission is to heal their patient using the methods dictated by training and experience. Healing an organism that represents a system of organic processes that are still not fully understood. If the processes were understood then there would not be any illness. This is not a social construct, this is a scientific knowledge based construct. The doctor may fail to execute the understood procedures which could result in a medical malpractice action - this is a failure of service, not of profession.
An attorney and the theater of the courts are a construct whose goal is to maintain social stability, to achieve this goal we implement an argumentative process. In the courtroom theater two
officers of the court argue to
forge justice out of the application of the law and the simultaneous pursuit of the legitimate interests of all parties and the general good of society.
Does this mission sound like a doctors mission ?To make such an association one might as well associate attorneys with plumbers because both plumbers and doctors have a specific service or goal. There is an additional difference, one can go to organizations such as the
Better Business Bureau to resolve the service failures of doctors or plumbers. With an attorney the BBB refers one to the
Bar in Virginia's case this is an Agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia and it covers up "strategy" failures which is the service provided by an attorney. This is like hiring a quarterback to win the game but rather than playing they drop the ball, claim strategy and demand payment. Only in the case of an attorney there is no audience oversight, just one party, the client that knows what cards were available to be played and they are
silenced.
Now in the context of our experiences did the
officers of the court and the alleged
oversight institution forge justice out of the application of the law and the simultaneous pursuit of the legitimate interests of all parties and the general good of society ? I say that they are demonstrating a betrayal of the public trust.
Officer of the court - in the complex functioning of the judicial system as a whole, in order to forge justice out of the application of the law and the simultaneous pursuit of the legitimate interests of all parties and the general good of society.
