Marc Bernier Presents
"The Case Against Lawyers"!

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THE CASE AGAINST LAWYERS
How the Lawyers, Politicians and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny—and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It 

by Catherine Crier

Available on October 8, 2002 from www.broadwaybooks.com

The Emmy Award winning host of Court TV's "Crier Live" describes an American legal system dangerously out of control-and finds the lawyers guilty as charged.

As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district attorney, private lawyer, and judge herself, she saw firsthand how the U.S. justice system worked-and didn't. One of the most respected legal journalists and commentators today, she now confronts a profoundly unfair legal system that produces results and profits for the few-and paralysis, frustration, and injustice for the many. The dire prediction of Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America has come true: Americans have ceded their responsibility as citizens to resolve the problems of society by themselves to a lawyer-controlled authority-and with it our precious democratic freedoms.

The Case Against Lawyers is both an angry indictment and an eloquent plea for a return to common sense. It decries a system of laws so complex even the enforcers-such as the IRS-cannot understand them. It unmasks a litigation-crazed society where billion-dollar judgments mostly line the pockets of personal injury lawyers. It deplores the stupidity of a system of liability that leads to such results as a label on a stroller that warns, 'Remove child before folding." It indicts a criminal justice system that puts minor drug offenders away for life yet allows celebrity murderers to walk for free. And it excoriates the sheer corruption of the iron triangle of lawyers, bureaucrats and politicians who profit mightily from all this inefficiency, injustice, and abuse.
The Case Against Lawyers will make readers hopping mad. And it will make them realize that the only response can be to demand change. Now.

AUTHOR BIO

CATHERINE CRIER is the host of "Crier Live," on Court TV, and is the former anchor of "The Crier Report" on Fox News, as well as an Emmy Award-winning correspondent and substitute host for ABC's "World News Tonight," "Nightline," and "20/20." A former lawyer and judge from Dallas, she lives in upstate New York.

Available on October 8, 2002 from www.broadwaybooks.com