Straus Khan

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Kasz216 said:

Wouldn't work.  The civil defenders are chosen by the courts.  So the courts would no doubt just go and choose the best lawyers for their friends... and crappy lawyers for their enemys.

There friends being big companies and powerful people... because Judges often move into regular politics to run for govonerships and senator spots.  The current govoner of the State i live in was a Judge who gave up a lifetime apointment to run for mayor with money from the Oil Lobby.

Give vouchers, and let people pick their own lawyers... and since they won't get paid more anyway, Lawyers will just gravitate to cases where they believe the people asking for their help, and the bad lawyers who don't care will be run out of the buisness because nobody will go to them.

You could even keep the current system, but set a spending cap, with the rule that you can exceed the cap... but you must declare that you are exceeding it immediatly and the government will provide the extra amount to the other side... but if you lose after increase spending... you have to pay what the government fronted the poorer side as well.

That could work. Another solution would be randomly assigning civil defenders, rather than having judges pick them. It would also be nice if judges were's elected, but rather got their position through some sort of exam or something.