> For instance, the purpose of lawyers is to serve and propagate the law

But day to day, they spend a lot of their time selling boiler plate contracts and wills or trying to smuggle loopholes into verbose contracts, or trying to find said holes in said contracts presented by a third party[1]

Or if they are involved in criminal law, I suspect they spend most of their time sifting the evidence and looking for the best way to present it for their client - and in the age of digital discovery the volume of evidence is overwhelmning.

And in terms of delivering justice in a criminal case - isn't that the role of the jury ( if you are lucky enough still to have one ).

I suspect very few lawyers ever get involves in cases that lead to new precedents.