From a study by federal-lawyer.com: There are 21.23 applicants to law school per 100,000 population in Virginia — the ninth highest ratio for any state in the country. Leading the tally is our next-door neighbor, Washington, D.C., with 129.4 applicants, far exceeding the 29.15 per 100,000 ratio of runner-up New York.
According to the American Bar Association, there are about 1.3 million lawyers in the United States.
— JAB
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As a younger person, raised with a strict moral code, it was a shock for me to realize lawyers don’t always fight for the truth–they fight to win cases, whatever it takes. There’s too much of that in our society today.
They represent their client’s best interest. We are a litigious society. We need them.
Prosecutors strive to minimize the likelihood a defendant goes unpunished. A defense attorney strives to keep his client from prison.
In civil matters, no attorney wants to go to court… ever.
None are above misrepresentation outside the courtroom, and a very few will even do it there.
They represent their client’s best interest. We are a litigious society. We need them.
Prosecutors strive to minimize the likelihood a defendant goes unpunished. A defense attorney strives to keep his client from prison.
In civil matters, no attorney wants to go to court… ever.
None are above misrepresentation outside the courtroom, and a very few will even do it there.
It was actually from a lawyer that I head the phrase “The law is the minimum ethical standard”.
Turns out the Constitution and legal ethics demand that legal rights are embodied in individuals, and that facts are determined by fact finders (e.g., juries of peers), not panels of judges or bishops or great seers. Silly Framers!
FedGov has lots of lawyers on the payroll.
Which turns ‘em over every 4 years.
Plenty of lawyers in the civil service, too.
Best, then, either to heed the Bard of Avon and kill all the lawyers or allow everyone to become a lawyer.
I pride myself on having spent, in the time that I’ve been on this earth, more on engineering services than I ever have on legal services.
OK, can the lawyers be engineered out of society?
We pretty much do allow anyone to become a lawyer. Think Dirtbag Joe Morrissey.
If the libertarian economist Milton Friedman had his way, there would be a far greater number of lawyers or, in his case, doctors without credentials. At least the batch in the article have applied to law school for credentialling. Ethics courses are required whether or not the subject is understood.
Teachers don’t even make the cut although they work with about 20 percent of the population.
Couldn’t find the cited study following the link. Be interesting to find correlations between prevelance of lawyers and GDP percapita or state spending percapita.
The incorrect link may represent the actual humor of the short piece. The link is to a TX law firm.
Sorry. Didn’t realize it was meant to be humorous.
And Virginia ranks 12th in the nation for number of employed lawyers per capita:
https://www.lawyersofdistinction.com/lawyers-by-capita-per-state/
Washington DC is #1 by a very large margin.
“According to the American Bar Association, there are about 1.3 million lawyers in the United States.”
That’s 1,299,999 forked-tongued devils against one honest man — your lawyer.
So, a doctor, an engineer, and a lawyer are fishing in a small boat when a rogue wave swamps their craft. Suddenly sharks appear from the deep and attack the doctor and engineer, ripping them to shreds. The lawyer grabs the dorsal fin of one of the sharks who swims him to the shore.
When the shark returns to the feeding frenzy he mutters, “Meh, professional courtesy,” and takes a bite of engineer.
Rabbit running from a fox ducks into a hole and runs into a rattlesnake. The snake flicks its tongue as the rabbit’s eyes adjust in the dark.
“Hmmm, whiskers, long ears, twitching nose… Bunny.
“Hmmm, slick, fangs, forked tongue… Lawyer.”
The problem with lawyer jokes is that they get elected.
98% of the lawyers give the other 2% a bad name.
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