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The Overproduction of Lawyers

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 9.

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The Overproduction of Lawyers

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An editorial in the New York "World" declares that among lawyers practise was never less remunerative, and never were expenses so high. The causes are the panic, the evils of which have just fallen upon the legal profession, less litigation (a good thing), and chiefly the overproduction of lawyers. It is computed that there is one to every 500 men, women, and children in the United States. Greater New York is said to have from 14,000 to 18,000 practising lawyers, while the law schools will graduate from 500 to 750 more this year. It is becoming as unprofitable a profession as medicine was a few years ago.