Sentences with phrase «lawyer per capita»

More lawyers per capita will only worsen the situation.

Too few lawyers per capita is a very bad thing for a society.

Which firm has the highest number of respected lawyers per capita?

There are relatively few lawyers per capita here, and a very large set of profitable activities is reserved for lawyers to the exclusion of potential competitors.

In other words, the number of private practice lawyers per capita is pretty constant.

There are four points at which an optimum number of lawyers per capita can be determined in the best interests of the public.

Close behind as a very bad thing is too many lawyers per capita.

If a great surfeit of lawyers truly was in the public interest, then the US would have the lowest cost legal services in the world because they have the highest number of lawyers per capita in history.

What will not work, and can not work, is trying to accomplish the same goal of efficiency by quintupling the number of lawyers per capita because then there is not enough work to go around and the bar can not sustain itself at fair levels of income without being extremely inefficient.

Instead, the benchers have created a system that will dump hordes of new lawyers onto the public in the post-call period despite, thanks to the American Petri dish next door, the clear evidence that having far too many lawyers per capita produces an increasingly costly and dysfunctional legal system.

In fact, the US has the most lawyers per capita in the world and, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are twice as many new lawyers as there are jobs.

For lawyers per capita by state, it's unsurprising to learn that Washington D.C., New York, and Massachusetts top the list.

Now to South America — we haven't talked much on Slaw about Brazilian law — perhaps surprising since it is an economic powerhouse and has the largest number of lawyers per capita after the United States, with a growing base of medium and large law firms.

Note that this is going to worsen as the number of lawyers per capita continues to skyrocket.

They are connected phenomena; yet, the solution advocated by those who do not understand this is to spew out even more lawyers per capita.

Did you know: Washington, DC has a higher concentration of lawyers per capita than any other city in America, with one lawyer for every 19 residents.

That's more lawyers per capita than any other state, the Empire Center says.

The author conducts empirical research about legal education; student debt; and law students, law schools and lawyers per capita (of which he keeps an archive).

Also note that the number of self - represented litigants has risen in lock - step with the rise in the number of lawyers per capita, and that the increase in the former is the direct result of the increase of the latter.

The third is when the Law Society uses, in the best interests of the public, a needs and market driven process to calibrate an optimum balance of lawyers per capita.

No, if I were looking for work as a lawyer, I might head to one of the Dakotas or Arkansas, the states with the lowest numbers of lawyers per capita.

Just look at the countries with very high rates of lawyers per capita.

Perversely, the increase in self - represented litigants has risen in lockstep with the huge increase in the number of lawyers per capita.

Another part of the solution is to do sensible actuarial studies to determine an optimum number of lawyers per capita — neither too few (China) nor too many (the US and now Canada thanks to the frenzy of graduations in the last 18 years).

Many people say that hugely increasing the number of lawyers per capita will bring down the cost of legal services.

The number of SRLs has risen in lock - step with the rise in the number of lawyers per capita.

If you double the number of lawyers per capita, then each lawyer has to make his living on half the number of clients.

If a huge increase in the number of lawyers per capita resulted in a reduction in the cost of legal services, then the US would have the lowest cost legal services in history because they have the highest number of lawyers per capita in history.

Also, consider the fact that Canada has half the number of lawyers per capita (more work to go around), and that our economy has generally been better off than in the US (mildly better?).

And Britain has more lawyers per capita than most countries in the world.

Much greater bencher concern there needs to be for what CanLII's former President, Colin Lachance says, about private practice's statistics showing that the number of such lawyers per capita is shrinking; see: «Law's Reverse Musical Chair Challenge» (Slaw, June 16, 2016).