Not every lawyer is crooked. Most of those I know are really decent human beings. My wife, for instance.

Lawyers represent their clients. Because a lawyer represents a child rapist or a scum-sucking corporate embezzeler in no way means that the lawyer is either one. There are crooks and shysters, granted, but I can recount the same among public librarians and even -- yes! -- among folkies and folksingers.

I wish that we could understand that....