Is this scummy or smart business?

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/...spill_lawsuits

Summary: Lawyers are tripping over themselves filing lawsuits in hopes of getting big money out of BP over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Greenday]

You mean they are going to do their jobs to make money? I'd say pretty smart.

[Fryk]

Why can't it be both?

[Red Panda]

...Yes....

[Hyena Dandy]

Its real scummy. And its real smart business. Like Uwe Boll.

[Greenday]

Can someone at least explain to me why lawyers getting ready for law suits against a company that majorly screwed up is scummy?

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Can someone at least explain to me why lawyers getting ready for law suits against a company that majorly screwed up is scummy?

IF I understand correctly it goes as follows:
Lawyers + doing something = evil, scummy, douchbaggery.

[Dreamstalker]

There are so many people who make their livelihood fishing the Gulf regions, it's BP's platform with a safety mechanism that should not have failed (apparently their European rigs have the needed valves that work)...makes sense to me.