Could this be a reminder that a Labor politician with a Labor political agenda is in charge of reorganising the structures and rules that govern the legal profession?

The Federal Attorney-General has stated that using lawyers to resolve a dispute is akin to "grabbing a tiger by the tail"; clients are "up the creek without a paddle" and lawyers don't even understand their own cost agreements.

The Law Council of Australia responded with a statement that it is "disappointed" and that these statements are "disrespectful to a profession committed to resolving clients’ disputes in the most effective and efficient way possible".

Perhaps the Law Council has forgotten that it is dealing with politicians and not bureaucrats and that the process is still in the political phase. Once the political fight has been fought then the Law Council will have the much more genteel task of working with the public servants. LPB 22/9/09

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