Guilty as Charged; America's Lawyers  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8821 (Feb. 2013), page 12.
Topik: Attorneys; Tuition; Debt; Career Development Planning; Law Schools; Reforms

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All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession--with the possible exception of journalism. But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America. During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation. The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools. But most law graduates never get a big-firm job. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare. There are many reasons for this. One is the extortionate costs of a legal education. Law-school debt means that many cannot afford to go into government or non-profit work, and that they have to work fearsomely hard. Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers--and these, at some point in a life, include most people. Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them.

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