Bankruptcy

We're Not Number One! A Celebration, Of Sorts, For Lawyers! And Small Business Owners in AZ and Elsewhere!

By Joseph McDaniel, Esq.

And my guess is that the general population understands that, because when a small business opens, it gives people jobs. And when a small business in Arizona has to close its doors and file bankruptcy, jobs are lost. As they have been in Arizona and all across the United States in the last couple of years.

So in a field of nine professions, people who own their own small business come out first in terms of popularity.

And for once, lawyers did not come in dead last, which made me feel better.

Small business owners, read and enjoy:

We're Not Number One! We're Not Number One!

If you're like me, you are resigned to the fact that lawyers, as a group, are not generally listed in opinion polls as the most respected people in the United States.

If you're like me, you remember at least one opinion poll that was very well publicized, and suggested that lawyers were the least respected folks in the United States.

So it is with mixed emotions that I have noted that lawyers are no longer the least respected and most poorly thought of profession in the United States, according to Rasmussen Reports.

On the other hand, the group least well regarded in the United States is to a large part made up of lawyers, so maybe it's a distinction without a difference!

Here's the list in order, for your enjoyment and entertainment, and let me say in closing that We're Not Number One Anymore!

1. Small Business Owners

2. People Who Start Own Business

3. Pastors and Religious Leaders

4. Bankers

5. Stockbrokers and Financial Analysts

6. Lawyers

7. Journalists

8. CEOs

9. Members of Congress

NOTHING HERE CONSTITUTES LEGAL ADVICE RE A CHAPTER 7, CHAPTER 13, CHAPTER 11, OR CHAPTER 12. FIND AN ARIZONA BANKRUPTCY LAWYER WHO IS BOARD CERTIFIED IN BANKRUPTCY LAW, AV RATED, AVVO 10 RATED, ON SUPERLAWYERS, OR JUST VERY EXPERIENCED AND A FORMER CHAIR OF SOME BANKRUPTCY SECTION OR COMMITTEE. NOTHING HERE MAY BE USED AS LEGAL ADVICE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BANKRUPTCY, WHETHER THAT BANKRUPTCY IS IN PHOENIX, GLENDALE, TEMPE, MESA, SCOTTSDALE, OR ANYWHERE ELSE.

Full post as published by Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney Blog on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).