Now why is it that we are the first ones to get blamed?
I recognize that not all lawyers are "evil," and most are just doing what they can in a broken system, but even so, look at the Terms and Conditions to play a game on an Xbox or download a song from iTunes and you should understand why people dislike lawyers. I have agreed to hundreds of contracts over the past year, and yet I have not even read most of them, I have to do that in order to exist in today's society.
Not only that, but a member of my family was sued because a drunk illegal immigrant crashed an airplane his business had worked on. He of course settled out of court losing thousands of dollars because his insurance didn't want to risk it.
I am actually somewhat pro-lawyer, but even so, I get knots in my chest thinking about the harm caused by the profession.