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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