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From: "Hamid A. Wasti" <hwasti@starband.net>
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Lots of different perspectives on this issue, here's one more.  About 24 
hours after the tragic accident in KY, do a Google search on "Comair 
5191"  You will see 3 paid advertisements (right side of the screen 
under title "Sponsored Links") for law firms, including one whose title 
is "Comair Flight 5191"  In fact, the only paid advertisements you will 
see are for lawyers looking for "plane crash victims"

Even if most lawyers are noble and honorable, as long as there are 
individuals in the profession who start looking for clients even before 
the bodies of the dead have been released to the families, the 
profession is going to be viewed as dishonorable.  Before the honorable 
lawyers scream about the injustice of guilt by association, let me point 
out that not anyone can call themselves a lawyer and start practicing 
law -- they have to be sanctioned by the bar association, which has the 
power to police its members and get rid of bad apples.  Anyone who is 
allowed to continue his/her membership is being sanctioned by the bar 
(and collectively through its membership) to be a representativity of 
the entire profession.

Regards,

Hamid