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All around the world, lawyers generate more
hostility(敌视)
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
excessive costs of a legal education. There is just one path for a lawyer in
most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated
subjects, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by
the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.
This leaves today's average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of
undergraduate debts. Law-school debt means that they have to work extremely
hard.
All around the world, lawyers generate more
hostility(敌视)
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
excessive costs of a legal education. There is just one path for a lawyer in
most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated
subjects, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by
the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.
This leaves today's average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of
undergraduate debts. Law-school debt means that they have to work extremely
hard.
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