Every year, polling company Insights West produces a list of Canada's most — and least — respected professions. "In my view, if you are doing your job properly as a lawyer, you are defending minority views — the unpopular and the accused," Murphy said. "You're never going to have, if you defend the minority, having the majority think that's a great thing." Murphy thinks the portrayal of lawyers in popular culture has given many people an inaccurate idea of what they actually do. He also notes that pollsters are in the bottom three professions — though they're now up from 34 to 42 per cent.

Source: CBC News March 17, 2018 02:26 UTC