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.
Just look at the countries with very high rates
of lawyers per capita.
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 we approach the number
of lawyers per capita that exists in the US, we will approach their disaster of a litigation system.
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.
There are four points at which an optimum number
of lawyers per capita can be determined in the best interests of the public.
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.
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.
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 author conducts empirical research about legal education; student debt; and law students, law schools and
lawyers per capita (
of which he keeps an archive).
The general practitioner is disappearing and the
per capita number
of lawyers in private practice has been decreasing for decades.
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.
Too many
lawyers per capita inevitably results in a driving up
of demand for legal (especially litigation) services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Which firm has the highest number
of respected
lawyers per capita?
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 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.
(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.
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.
Just look at the countries with very low
per capita rates
of lawyers.
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.
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).