Several years ago, when I told a lawyer acquaintance that I wanted to go to law school so I could practice consumer law, he said, "why would you do that, you already know none of your clients have any money. How do you expect to get paid?" The truth of the matter is, there are plenty of ways to get paid as a consumer attorney. The real problem is that consumers tend to think, because someone is a "consumer attorney," that they should work for free. I would submit that most complaints about disinterested consumer law attorneys come from those who need one to defend them, and simply cannot af