Via Paul Hsieh at Geekpress, “16 Things Your Lawyer Won’t Tell You”, a piece purporting to arm consumers of legal services the better to keep tabs on their lawyers, but which ulti­mately severely misrep­re­sents the profession. The overall problem with the article is that it assumes that it is immoral for a lawyer to make money off his clients’ legal woes. Here are the most misleading points from the article, and my expla­nation of why they are misleading. 1. I use forms but charge you as if I did it from scratch. Lawyers who create and sell operative legal documents (wills, contracts, trusts, &c.) [ . . . ]

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