I think the debate will go on till the cow comes home. To each his own.

YA,...ANIL JI

THE REASON IS SIMPLE NOW A DAYS THE LAW PROFESSION HAS GONE TO THE HANDS OF GOONDAS. IF U DISAGREE PLS READ THE NEWS OF MADRAS HC CLASH AND CLASH IN KARNATAKA HC.

I REGRET IF I HAD HURT THE SENTIMENTS OF TRUE LAWYERS!

You are absolutely right, it  is not only the MADRAS HC CLASH AND CLASH IN KARNATAKA HC., you can more things if you look in to Delhi Jesika Lala Murder case ( Manu Sharma Case) and Y-days Mumbai MNS activities, and no one has the respect towards Law.

NO, THE PROFESSION CANOT BE TREATED LIKE WHAT YOU THINK SO, IT IS A NOBLE PROFESSION WHO FEELS IT , THEY ONLY KNOW

 Is a profession?

I absolutely agree with Ziaul, Law is indeed the most noble and honourable profession and One has to have a cause to do a thing, a cause towards the society, a cause towards the clients  and also a cause for the self... there can be no better cause than serving with sincereity and hard work. The second reason is lack of education at the grass root level, Our system is changing now, National Knowledge commission's are recommending to include a bit of Law in school curriculum also. Instead of insisting on having a system like BA, LLB why can't we have BA Law or there can be a doctor-Lawyer or an Engineer-Lawyer etc.

The day it spreads out and is understood that Law is a necessary element of our life and cannot be confined to law colleges alone the probably everyone should be keen to have some degree of knowledge of Law. This wil prepare Legal professionals who play a decisive role not onl as advocates practicing in courts, but as legislators,judges,policy makers, public officials and civil society activists.

An interesting debate indeed! One thing crops into my mind. If you see how the judges of our country have been delivering the judgments comparatively decade after decade, their quality, appreciation of submissions of both sides. A true lawyer is being killed every day by so many errant judgments. When the word spread about the acts of the errant judgments/judges, our young generation getting vexed about the legal profession. In early times, the judges used to watch both sides' arguments. But today's judges have started opening their mouths in the middle of advocates' arguments which has resulted in gagging the mouths of lawyers and the lawyers are interrupted extensively before completing their submissions. This has also discouraged many good advocates. Another reason is frequent change of judges in a court, which causes a great frustration to a lawyer who has to argue each and every time a new judge takes over the court. How many times a client will pay the fees to his lawyer? It is not worthwhile to take fees only once and argue many times. Hence this profession is not lucrative compared to other professions. In other professions, there is job satisfaction, but not in this. Even a good lawyer finds it very difficult to deliver goods to his client, because he has to face several hurdles right from numbering the case till he gets the judgment copy!!!!!!!!!!! That's why this thoughtprovoking topic has invited so many unending comments.......till the cows return home (as one of our brothers has rightly commented).

 Corporate lawyers practising in the SC are charging crores of rupees.

Almost all the leaders of the freedom struggle were legal luminaries. 

Please name anyone from the legal fraternity after independence who has done any worthwhile service to the nation in the political field. I am talking of service to the nation not becoming a Minister/MP.