Well, Ace, I'm a lawyer, but I'm not an A.H. And all the lawyers I work with every day are nice guys, too. They would never even think of trying to take advantage of their position like this idiot did. The other lawyers I meet are, by and large, nicer people than the non-lawyers I meet every day. I just don't know where people get their lousy opinions of lawyers, except maybe from other people who also got their opinions from other people, etc. And, BTW, Shakespeare was speaking ironically when he has the 2 gravediggers in "Hamlet" say they want to kill all lawyers. You are supposed to be smart and sophisticated enough to know that the gravediggers were a couple of drunken louts whose opinions were therefore to be disregarded. In fact, by having the drunk gravediggers say they hate lawyers, Shakespeare is, in effect, saying just the opposite.
I'll tell you the kind of person who hates lawyers: the kind who, for example, call me up and tell me about their complicated legal problems, mostly of their own making, who want me to represent them for free, and when I tell them I can't do that, they think I'm a terrible person. Do you guys want me to lump you into that same category? I don't think so!