Sentences with phrase «lawyers per capita»

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).

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

Close behind as a very bad thing is too many 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.

More lawyers per capita will only worsen the situation.

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

The grim realities you refer to are caused mostly by there being far too many lawyers per capita — a problem that has infected the US legal services market for decades (yet, we can not seem to learn from the petri dish next door; instead, we just blunder along copying their errors and hoping that somehow, after setting up their legal environment, we will somehow avoid their problems.

If a very high number of lawyers per capita would bring down 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.

As a result of the hideous decision to reduce medical school enrolment, we now have far too few doctors per capita and far too many lawyers per capita, and both situations are demonstrably very harmful to the public and our society.

You write «As a result of the hideous decision to reduce medical school enrolment, we now have far too few doctors per capita and far too many lawyers per capita, and both situations are demonstrably very harmful to the public and our society.»

As we approach the number of lawyers per capita that exists in the US, we will approach their disaster of a litigation system.

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

The two most recently accredited law schools are both located in North Carolina, which the article notes has the fewest lawyers per capita of any state.

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.

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.

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.

See the US experience for the miseries caused by the shallow notion that too many lawyers per capita is a good thing.

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

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.

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.

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.

They have the highest number of lawyers per capita in history.

When there are too many lawyers per capita (an evil second only to too few lawyers per capita), then the lawyers are not busy unless they work to make themselves busy, mostly by putting too many frankly unnecessary hours into a matter (churning), and by looking under every rock for a reason to sue, sue and sue.

Too many lawyers per capita inevitably results in a driving up of demand for legal (especially litigation) services.

The Americans have made quite a mess of their legal system -LRB-(1) far too many lawyers per capita, (2) far too much useless and immeasurably costly and roiling litigation, and (3) allowing the «dysfunctional» and «invidious» title insurance industry to rip away, through grossly unfair business practices, most of the conveyancing work from the real estate bar to the great cost of the public and great harm to the title system), but on the issue of rejecting ABS, they have got it right.

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).

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.

Not exact matches

There are so many stupid jurisdictional overlaps of fractured and detailed regulatory authorities in the US that it supports the world's highest per - capita population of lawyers and environmental consultants.

The general practitioner is disappearing and the per capita number of lawyers in private practice has been decreasing for decades.

On a per capita measure of lawyers per state, Washington has 276.7 lawyers for every 10,000 residents.

It also suggests that there is already a sufficiency of lawyer - producing ventures in the province and in a stupid comparison tells its readers that we have 30 times the number of lawyers that Japan has, per capita.

After first - and second - ranked Washington and New York, the highest per capita numbers of lawyers are in:

On the other hand, perhaps I failed and the sarcasm did not come through because of course Canadians lawyers are smarter and more capable than everybody in other jurisdictions which have more law schools per capita.

The report proposes that the École du Barreau, which administers bar exams in the province, enforce stricter quotas aimed at reducing the per - capita lawyer population by 19 per cent, to 275 lawyers per 100,000 residents — a healthier balance that can already be found in Alberta.

(2) With the prodigious increase in the number of students being admitted to the law schools, several of whom have increased in size including Ottawa which more than doubled in size and it was already the second largest school in Ontario, we have seen a great increase in the number of lawyers doing litigation per capita.

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

Even if the firm only has one lawyer practicing in a particular area, the library needs to support that lawyer's practice, increasing per capita spending significantly.

Erhard Blankenburg's research suggests that one reason the German litigation system works well is that they have an extraordinarily high proportion of judges per capita compared to the number of lawyers and lawsuits per capita.