Law Office of Phillip C Tower

The public has a complex relationship with its lawyers. How is it possible for so many Americans to despise them – as if all were ambulance-​chasing gargoyles in shiny suits – while flocking to entertainment programs celebrating attorneys? Can it be their instinctive disgust for the legal profession translates to admiration for the ethically superior lawyers of TV series, just as viewers may welcome the uplifting, angst-​ridden idealism of the White House crowd in «The West Wing» as refuge from the cynicism of real-​life politics? More reprehensible than even the media, politicians and liberals (the other L-​word), lawyers have become the scapegoat of choice during this tortuously prolonged and litigated presidential election being fought in courtrooms.