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Totally had destroyed the profession in my opinion. Just like the new business models involving medicine are destroying the medical profession. It has become all about the money and less about helping people for the right reason while being to make a living out if it. Las is no longer a profession but is nothing more tan a business and it has disgusted me for years. But screw it, I'm on the down slope now so I really don't care anymore.
 
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My brother and I finished up a job in Sweeny TX, south of Huston. It is 1850 miles from there back home. We both remarked on the amount of "Injured in an Accident" type signs lining the highways. Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana. Didn't matter. The vultures were circling. My wife is ashamed of the majority of her profession and prefers not to let most people know about her hard earned degree. There was a time when attorneys were some of the most respected people in the community. Now they come in well behind used car salesmen.
 
Made a trip to Atlanta last Friday. On the way home on I85 from the GA line all the way through SC were signs for one single chaser. He dominated those billboards, and obviously they must work.
 
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Figures; the paywall wants a dollar to read it. The "chasers" are in every locale. The ads are on late at night/early morning in every major market. We have the "largest personal injury firm in the country" right here, just outside the "Happiest Place on Earth." Joe
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Yeah, can’t read it without subscribing, how ironic!
 
In 1964 U of Pitt Law School graduated about 55/60 brand new Lawyers.... my class of 1978, the first out of the new Building dedicated to the Law School, graduated about 175. With another 60 or so that didn't make it past the first year!

In the following 10 years Pitt graduated about 1,800 new lawyers; equal to all the pre-64 classes going back to the mid 1920s.

The pie didn't get 30 times bigger,

IMHO I got out and into the marketplace just before the SHTF and swamped the market! I made a good living working for or with non-profit hospitals around the Commonwealth.

When I was in Harrisburg in the 80s/90s every other State employee had a JD from some law school I'd never heard of!
 
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I was living just outside Pittsburgh back in the '70s. I was trying to make up my mind about if I wanted to study law or something else. The Press (now dead newspaper) published a poll they'd taken of how much money attorney's made in the metro area from legal work. Average turned out to be ~$14K. That was a lot less than I was making at the time. I'd done work for some firms that specialized in repping corporations, I knew they were making waay better than that.

BTW, my wordsmithing isn't outstanding, I've got my share of typos. But reading the OP, I have to wonder if our eminent jurist typed that after deep consultation with a single malt.
 
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I reject all forms of group identity.
There really is no such thing, especially not age identity.
The same young people who take umbrage at being lumped together with others of the Gen Z, have no qualms saying to me,
"Okay Boomer...."
Professional group identity is equally invalid.
Veterans? There are some fine people who happened to have served.
Police? I have known too many of them, to think of them as anything but just some of my neighbor who work for the city.
Teachers? My mother was Rock Hill School District 3 for 29 years, a true saint if there ever was one. But some people she worked with and worked under especially were the most despicable ...well, you know what I am saying (sigh).

If there ever was a group profession that deserves to be despised it would have to be lawyers, right? How about lawyers from, of all places, Louisiana?! Uuuuughghh:-)
And yet here is Cajun Lawyer who is the finest person we have on this forum. He always has truly helpful comments, and he is quite funny. He can take a tease as good as he gives it!

Sociological Psychology is a lifelong study. My thing is more Educational Psychology and Sociology which all are very soft sciences. There is a reason why we identify with our profession, but you can get over it.

Best Regards and a Big Thank You to Cajun Lawyer for the Contribution here!
BrianD
 
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WR Moore said:
I was living just outside Pittsburgh back in the '70s. I was trying to make up my mind about if I wanted to study law or something else. The Press (now dead newspaper) published a poll they'd taken of how much money attorney's made in the metro area from legal work. Average turned out to be ~$14K. That was a lot less than I was making at the time. I'd done work for some firms that specialized in repping corporations, I knew they were making waay better than that.

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LOL "averages" are deceptive. $14,000 in 1976 is $81,000 today.

In the mid-70s Big Firms in the Burgh started their Associates out at $18,000- $20,000. That's $100,000-$112,000 in today's dollars per "Inflation Calculator".

My first Hospital paid me $19,500 out of School or $109,000 today!
 
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Paywall blocked, but I get the gist of it. Classless comes to mind.

We see it here too and it isn't just lawyers either. A lack of pride has taken a toll on our society.
 
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Back in 2005, when I was still working for a living, I was in Florida for business. At the time, I had a habit of checking local phone books (which have become extinct it seems) to see if anyone in the area shared my last name. I immediately noticed there was a lawyer ad on every other page of the white pages! Good grief!
 
I don't care about the billboards, it's the dang commercials. Every other one is a lawyer telling me how much money they will get me if I am involved in a crash or a slip and fall. What they don't tell anyone is how much they will take.
 
...and when I look at the insurance premiums I pay it reminds me that insurance companies do not have bottomless pits of cash to hand out to Personal Injury law firms and their clients. That isn't "free" money. It comes out of our pockets, not thin air.
 
Attorneys advertising was illegal, or mostly prohibited, in the US until the 1970s when the Supreme Court decided it was allowed because it is speech for commercial purposes, or something like that. It still is restricted or illegal in many countries.

Doctors advertising as well used to be prohibited.
 
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