When they start attacking you instead of answering your questions or responding to your position, you’ve won the debate.

Good job.

I agree with you about attorneys. There are some really good lawyers in our state.

This debate is about jobs and improving our business climate. Unfortunately, the 1 800 Lawyers (aka TV Lawyers) are doing a lot of harm to our business climate encouraging needless lawsuits.

These greedy TV lawyers blame everyone but themselves about the harm that is being done by excessive lawsuits.

Read their comments they blame the insurance companies, big business, “drunk” doctors, Republicans, Fox News, George Bush, and Governor Sanford.

They like to act as defenders of the “little man”, instead, they are greedy personal injury lawyers taking 50% of an injured parties award. They are an embarrassment to the legal profession.

The US Dept of Commerce, October 2008, a/k/a. Junior Bush School of Economics and Hand Puppetry. Bobby Harrell, Glenn McConnell, Marshall Sanford, Joe Taylor, our fearless leaders who have helped create our record unemployment and stagnant economy. Their response is to blame the unemployed.

Why don’t you name us a business where personal injury lawyers caused a South Carolina business to fire an employee?

Why else would the Secretary Of Commerce, the business community, legislative leaders, and the governor support legal reform?

Do your research before making such a statement. The US Department of Commerce released a report in October about the negative impact that our litigation system has on investment in the US.

By the way, I have no problem with lawyers who do not prey on injured victims.

In fact, I like lawyers who protect doctors from frivolous lawsuits and prosecute criminals.

I am not a lawyer, but there are several firms in my building. They are small in size…5-6 lawyers at the most, but each firm has about 25 people working there. My guess is they are not doing it for free, so it seems to me that they DO create jobs and they ARE in the private sector, which pretty much negates that part of your argument. Everybody hates a lawyer, until they need one…ask FITS News. He has few he uses and does some work for trial lawyers as well. They’re easy to beat up on, but when you get a DUI, or accused of a crime (even if your innocent) or some doctor maims or kills a loved one, I hope you’ll just represent yourself.

Are you a socialist or a communist?

It seems like you hate everyone who has a private sector job.

Jobs are produced by businesses. Doctors save lives. Trial lawyers do neither.

Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers have printed theirs for the last 1000 years.

No one emulates American medicine across the world. Billions of people emulate our Constitution and Bill of Rights, documents created by the trial lawyers of their time.

Cuba has doctors but no lawyers.

The only people who want to eliminate lawyers are drunk doctors who operate on patients, insurance companies, and corporate America like W.R. Grace that deliberately poisons Americans for corporate profits.

I guess you and Gerry Spence are the only people in America that think trial lawyers are more important than doctors.

Mr. Spence made the following statement about trial lawyers “We are the most important people in America … I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers somehow disappeared? … We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice”.

SC Lawyer, can you deliver a baby? Can you perform surgery? 99% of the people would prefer doctors over personal injury lawyers.

Trial lawyers need to get a grip.

I understand why injured parties have to use contingency fees, what I cannot understand is how personal injury lawyers go to bed at night taking nearly half the award of an injured victim.

I’m glad you are not one of them.