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Welcome to this month's edition of the Lawyers Stink Email Newsletter. We hope you're enjoying a lawyer free day. And since having a lawyer free day is getter harder to do nowadays, this month's newsletter takes a hard look at the subject. So without further ado, let's get the ball rolling. Regardless of whether you like it or lump it, you may be next in line to get hammered with a lawsuit. With approximately one million lawyers looking for trouble, the potential for you to get smacked with a lawsuit increases exponentially with each passing day. Since it's been said that being forewarned is forearmed, here's your wake up call. After all, if goofy, off the wall lawsuits can happen to other people, what makes you think that they couldn’t happen to you as well? Unless you’re going to crawl into a hole and never leave your house again, you’re going to have to interact with other people in your day to day routine. And it’s that interacting with others that can lead to a whole heap of trouble. Going to work, driving your car or even owning a home opens you up to a bevy of potential pitfalls. Even the pettiest of slights or inconveniences can quickly escalate out of control and end up in a lawyer’s mitts. Once you’re smacked in the head with a lawsuit, you have no choice but to fight back … or you lose. You have to defend yourself or else, those are the frightening rules we have to play by and live with today. Defending yourself against litigation today, be it warranted or unwarranted in nature, is by no means an inexpensive proposition. Even if you get the case tossed out of court, you will have invested time, money and resources that will never be recovered. I guess that’s the price we all pay now that lawyers dominate the American landscape. Still not convinced that lawyers couldn’t get a shot at you even if you’re minding your own business? Let’s take a closer look. Suppose you’re having a little get together at your home over the weekend. There’s plenty of food, beverages and snacks for everyone and a good time is being had by all. Then one of your guests accidentally slips and falls and injures himself in the process. In the old days before the proliferation of lawyers and lawsuits, the person doing the slipping would pick himself up sporting an embarrassed grin and maybe a new bruise. The only thing really injured would have been his pride. You would all have a laugh and get back to having a good time. But these days, with a possible lawsuit and the accompanying riches the injury could bring in the offing, the bruise on the clumsy guest may now become a potential nightmare for you and your family. Before you know it, you’re slapped with a lawsuit seeking damages due to your negligence for the injuries suffered to the guest. Even if you go to court and prevail, you’ll be out the thousands of dollars you will have expended in legal fees in the case and lost a friend in the process. What if you’re away for the weekend and a neighborhood kid decides to jump your fence and take a quick dip in your backyard pool? The youth unfortunately slips and thumps his head on the side of the pool and opens up a nasty wound on his noggin. There’s a better than average chance you could get sued for the injuries even though the youngster was trespassing in the first place. Believe it or not, and you’d better start believing it, these types of suits happen every day in America. There is no escaping the potpourri of potential legal hazards that may befall you at any time. What about the handyman doing work at your home who injures himself on your property? Or the little fender bender, when you inadvertently tap the vehicle in front of you, that results in the infamous whiplash malady to the other driver? These types of lawsuits can drive you crazy and into the poor house as well. You can be as careful as you can, but accidents do happen to the best of us. That’s why they’re called accidents in the first place. And when accidents do occur, you had better watch out below. Lawyers have no peers (or conscience for that matter) when it comes to converting the simplest of minor mishaps into major league catastrophes. Try as you might, you can no longer escape the inescapable fact that with almost one million lawyers looking to keep busy around the country, chances are very good that you’ll end up in a lawsuit or two before you’re through. If you’re lucky enough to accumulate some net worth over a lifetime of hard work and financial discipline, the odds of getting hammered with a lawsuit at some point go through the roof. Being successful in the 21st Century is not for the weak at heart. People who have less will always be gunning for you. Lawyers looking to take their shot at scoring some of your possessions are going to be gunning for you. It’s just the nature of the beast. What can we do to make a difference? For one thing, we can refuse to cower and kowtow to lawyers who are looking to make a quick score by using and abusing the system. Each of us needs to strap on the helmet and go about our business being the absolute best we can be, bringing value and integrity to all we meet (with lawyers being the possible exception to this rule). And finally, make a point of supporting agencies on the local, state and national levels who are working to put an end to lawsuit abuse across America. Only through a well organized grass roots level campaign aimed at stomping out lawsuit abuse will we ever reclaim our country from the lawyers who are hell bent on destroying it from the inside out. Here's wishing you a lawyer free day! This month's Lawyers Stink Email Newsletter is an excerpt taken from It’s Time To Wake Up and Smell the Lawyers. If you haven’t read our highly acclaimed book, you’re missing out on a load of information about America’s legal system – and a load of laughs as well.
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