I love defense attorneys, of various stripes. Most people will eventually need one for something. I disapprove of the way that lawyers collectively run their profession -- of the way they write the law, of their interpretation of justice, of their gatekeeping. But that could be said of most professions that are sufficiently organized. There is no freakin' guild of computer programmers, which is more to my liking.

Ambulance chasers and their slightly more sophisticated brethren the malpractice attorney can suck a dick. And of course "civil rights" attorneys and patent troll enablers.