Its also interesting that lawyers seem to operate in 2 modes. Bully mode where they try to say whatever they think will shock the "victim" into easily giving up his rights/money, and "civil" mode where they politely ask a disinterested third party to forcibly take resources from their victim and hand it to them.

The first mode, I believe is responsible for much of the bad PR the legal profession has. Its kind of a "shock and awe" deal where ordinary people are just astonished that any human being can behave so repugnantly and this makes them afraid, especially if they have never dealt with anything like it before. This is a feature, and is very much intended. Lawyers have been accustom to behaving like this in what amounted to nearly full privacy. Even their clients were not fully aware of the extent they did this.

Enter the internet. Paradigm shifted.