There are several topics related to the legal system that would make great and badly needed articles. I hope FOX News covers these stories. Considering that around 40% of marraiges end in divorce, I think a tremendous nmbr of people would be interested in these topics.
1) www.yellowpages.com is a place where people can go to review lawyers. You can look up a lawyer, and write your review. Not sure if anyone is aware of this, there are virtually no reviews entered now. People are largely in the dark now about what lawyer to hire. If people used this resource, and a large body of reviews was eventually built up; obviously it would be extroadinarily important and beneficial to society. Please get out some publicity that this site exists, we have to get people using it.
2) That the current divorce system fundamentally doesnot work - it costs society millions of dollars, and is essentially lawless (in the sense that a judge can assign any settlement, there are no laws as guidelines), and random (in that due to the lack of laws, and the lack of information on precedents, different judges can assign radically different settlements to similar cases), and cases are often settled simply because people run out of money for legal fees, resulting in basically incomplete or incoherant settlements.
Need to develop a system that either allows consumers to easily look up info on all legal precedents; and/or has optional standard settlements that people can opt for sparing them the emotional and financial costs, and the essential randomness, of the current controntational system.
3) The Committee on Professional Standards is supposed to protect consumers against lawyer misconduct. However, my guess is perversely its the opposite, that in reality it protects lawyers from consumer complaints. The Committee is 18 lawyers and 3 civilians policing lawyers. My experience with them in my complaint is they donot actually investigate anything, just take statements from each side, no attempt to contact others that can verify things; that they use no basic common sense in figuring things out; and make no attempt to reference legal precedents. Therefore nothing can ever be proven, if all you do is take statements. I can provide details on my particular case if you wish. I would be very curious to find out what percentage of the time they actually find for the consumer, of course that info they will not give out.
