Don't get me started - I work in a division infested with lawyers and they are the biggest single inmpediment to progress. They know the law, but the not the program or how things really work and things like common sense and the value of building relationships are foreign to them.You haven't seem the legal folks yet!
It's not all their fault though, leaders (government or business) need to take what a lawyer says under advisement, then do what needs to be done rather than living in the fear generated by a society that continues to pump out lawyers far in excess of what is needed to replace the existng crop of them. If they were locusts, we'd spray 'em.