Sep 25
He that loves the law will get his fill of it.
Scottish Proverb
Leroy Jethro Gibbs really really hated lawyers.
His distrust had begun with divorce lawyers. Slimy, smarmy toads who cost a fortune and were either unable to defend his meager wage or succeeded in making him hand over a suspiciously large amount of money to a redhead he never wanted to see again. He wasn't entirely sure how he had managed to hang onto the one possession he refused to give up (his precious house; he could always build another boat if one of the ex-wives wanted his so badly).
He had then slowly begun to hate defense lawyers. Always on the hunt for a technicality, always trying to keep their client, who was usually a murdering, drug-dealing scumbag or some other variation on a theme, walking the streets so he could continue his long and storied career of murder, drug-dealing, or whatever it was. They thought purely in terms of money and never about the innocent people's lives their client had destroyed.
Slowly but surely, his hatred had spread to all lawyers. Even the ones who were supposed to be helping him. Either they couldn't get him a warrant that was essential to getting another criminal off the streets, or they couldn't make the charges stick, or they plea-bargained their way out of even the most simple cases.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs hated lawyers. There was a reason he devoted seven of his valuable Rules to them.