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The Entire Legal Profession Is On The Verge Of Imploding
Business Insider ^
| 04/21/2013
| Steven Harper, The Belly of the Beast
Posted on 04/21/2013 2:39:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Is this man suggesting that he deserves sympathy?
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:41:36 PM PDT
by
abb
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:42:53 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: SeekAndFind
Neuter or fix all attorneys so they cannot reproduce
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:43:04 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international, gone independent. Gone.)
To: SeekAndFind
Pretty much everything is imploding.
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:43:41 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: SeekAndFind
The FDA has prohibited sales of Viagra to Attorneys...apparently it just makes them taller.
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:49:40 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: SeekAndFind
We can only wish. Hopefully, maybe, possibly, please, even pretty please, etc., etc.
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:51:11 PM PDT
by
ProudFossil
(" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
To: SeekAndFind
One thing I figured, is that a lot of the grunt work that used to be done by new associates is now being offshored on the cheap to India...therefore, firms don’t have to hire newly graduated law students anymore.
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:52:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind; All
The legal system has arguably been imploding since Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR nuked the Supreme Court with activist justices in the late 30s and early 40s.
To: ClearCase_guy
Law has become a business rather than a profession.
When I was graduated from the U.Va. School of Law in 1966 it was generally seen -- I saw it that way -- as a profession. Now, it is very difficult to recognize as a profession. After thirty years, I retired in 1996 and am very happy to have done so.
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:54:37 PM PDT
by
DanMiller
(Dan Miller)
To: SeekAndFind
Noteworthy that I have heard of at least one law school is slashing its tuition because of a shortage of fresh meat.
At the time a lawyer commented to the story that at least a law degree still has a slightly higher credibility than does an MBA, a used car salesman, or a politician, though it is still slightly lower than a pawn shop owner or discount liposuctionist.
To: SeekAndFind
For some reason that scene in Saving Private Ryan came to mind, the one where the German bunker is lit up by a flame thrower. Germans are jumping out the front, on fire, and a young American soldier yells, “Let ‘em burn!”
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:56:07 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Take the expanding number of law graduates and can come up with a date in the future where all citizens are lawyers who make a living suing other lawyers.
To: SeekAndFind
When I started as a legal secretary in 1973, I was told that the legal profession was recession-proof. Well, not anymore. A lot of firms expanded, hired a ton of lawyers and generally spent money like there was no tomorrow. That all changed when their biggest clients, corporations, began to fail. The money dried up. Today, a number of prestigious firms have downsized. Those with multiple offices have closed the less profitable branches. A number of firms I knew back in the 1970s are no more.
Many of these firms have also reduced support staff. The concept of a legal secretary is vanishing. Once laptops and all the mobile devices came out, law firms decided they didn't need too many secretaries. The younger, computer-savvy lawyers could do much of the work themselves.
And like every other business, once Obamacare really takes hold, there will be fewer and fewer jobs at all levels. What jobs remain may actually become part time.
This is not a good time for any business and that includes law firms.
To: SeekAndFind
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Let's see ...
1) U.S. Lawyers (by the millions) supported the usurper kenyan for president ...
2) Secretly applaud the heinous murders performed by "doctor" gosnell in philadelphia ...
3) do satans's diligent work by defending drug dealers, poronography producers and child-sex-slave masters and pimps in court
4) move mountains to undermine Christianity while sucking at militant islam's (house of saudi well-funded) political breasts
5) have worked for decades trying to DESTROY American industry via frivolous lawsuits and bogus environmental claims
6) will line-up by the DOZENS to defend "pro-bono" the islamic terrorist from the Boston Marathon massacre
.. and I'm supposed to "feel sorry" for these well-educated accessories to child-infantcide, political corruption and islamic terrorism ?
Like hell, I will ...
.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:02:15 PM PDT
by
Patton@Bastogne
(Piss upon Obama, and his False Prophet Mohammed)
To: SeekAndFind
Cool. What do I have to do to help push it over the edge?
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:08:08 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: DanMiller
Do you remember the general cost of law school back in 1966?
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:08:19 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
To: Patton@Bastogne; et al
Lets see...The U.S with some 8% of the world’s population suffers the presence of 95% of the world’s lawyers. Blessed be we. Hence my nearly original tagline:
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:09:25 PM PDT
by
S.O.S121.500
(You can have my lawyer after you pry my cold, dead fingers from around his neck.)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Neuter or fix all attorneys so they cannot reproduce Unfortunately, they reproduce by mitosis:
Lawyer being created in anaphase stage
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:09:33 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
To: SeekAndFind
People are finally starting to wake up to all the sickening lawsuits perpetrated by lawyers, especially the class-action ones, wherein the lawyers walk away with millions while those actually hurt by what caused the suit get discount coupons or some other such nonsense.
I remember the (I assume) liberal girl Public Defender (Mary Kay Place?) in The Big Chill when she lamented on how she got her legal degree to help the poor and downtrodden with their legal problems, but she always ended up representing scumbags who actually deserved to be in prison. The world just didn't fit her pre-dispositioned beliefs and she just didn't understand why. Such is the liberal mindset.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:10:12 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
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