Lawyers: A Modest Proposal

July, 1994

Clearly, America has a problem with its legal system: By the year 2000, we will have a million lawyers. Most people agree there are too many lawyers. In one poll published by the National Law Journal, 73 percent of those asked said as much.So how do we go about cutting back? You cannot shame people into not practicing law. No matter how many lawyer jokes the rest of us tell, the law schools are still packed with people whose goal is to make a lot of money or to find a way into politics or, God f...