Does anyone else out there despise and cringe when someone uses the term "lawyer up"? I do. I think its a reflection on the current social stratosphere by which the arrogant, broken, repulsive and morbid are seen to seek their God given right to establish their name in a legal and forthright manner. Do I feel threatened when another person "lawyers up"? Yes. Its a backwards plan that is not pleasing to the parties who they will see as adversaries. But clearly, one is given due process. I think a more appropriate term would be "lawyer down". Get it?
To say someone is "lawyering up" designates that your vision of the legal system is a buffer for embarrassment or that it is a method by which another person must engage in trust so that you can do your best to humiliate or denigrate that person legally. I have been threatened by more than one person in my lifetime who disagrees with my verbal discourse that I need to "lawyer up" (they want to make me think they are going to come after me!!!!!!!)... Perhaps they should tell me that they are going to "lawyer down". This is heresy and there is no place for it in our marketplace, social structure, backyards or parlors of discourse.
If I wanted to indicate that I was going to take legal action against someone and thought they might seek legal representation to combat rightous and true legal action on my part, I think I'd tell them that they can lawyer themselves to death. That is always a true possibility. Lawyer down or lawyer yourself to death. Thats the only option in attaining counsel righly or... arrogantly.
Please dont lawyer down if you think my online commentary hits a nerve. Just write me a letter. :)
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No, just kidding, I think you can use that term, but it really does make me cringe that its used so much. If I had a patient perhaps who was going to litigate against myself for wrongful or even assumed malpractice, I think I'd say that he or she was lawyering up! Heresy it is not! (Maybe only if its used to describe someone who wants to smack you out of commission but not to use it to describe someone who needs legal representation for legitimate purposes.)
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