Comments on: NYC council: poor tenants should have eviction lawyers https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/11/nyc-council-poor-tenants-should-have-eviction-lawyers/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Supremacy Claus https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/11/nyc-council-poor-tenants-should-have-eviction-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-9632 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:11:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5562#comment-9632 “Your Honor, winter approaches. There is just no place for this unfortunate drug addict, and her eight children, disabled by ADHD to go. We need an accommodation under the ADA by a six months extension on payment and eviction.”

This proposal supports the Rent Seeking Theory as the Grand Unifying Theory of Lawyer Policy.

Weird, expensive, socially self-defeating, otherwise inexplicable policies generate lawyer jobs. They never openly express rent seeking. Lawyers express other arguments as pretexts.

For example, they will argue, poor landlords will benefit from free representation also. That argument is really good in generating two lawyer jobs per dispute. Perhaps, the city could participate, by requiring an advocate arguing homeless shelters have no room for the evicted, generating a third lawyer job. As the dispute drags on for months or years, it gives a fourth lawyer job security, the one on the bench.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Meanwhile, if one believes in property rights, and paying for what one gets, justice gets trashed as well as the apartment.

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