[3Fingas]

Too many lawyers. That is why I chose to not go to law school.

[Gaffer]

All you see on daytime TV are ads from lawyers about bankruptcies, SSDI applications, lawsuits on drug or medical device use, accidents with trucks, assaults in apartment complexes, workers compensation claims, auto accident claims - you name it. Filled to the gills with lawyers.

[Graybeard58]

Supply & demand works? Who knew?

[randita]

I’ve seen this first hand with a relative - not in Florida, but in Ohio. She finally got a job with an natural gas energy company where she verifies the ownership of the leased land. It’s contract work, but she makes enough to live and make a dent in the loans. Most importantly, it’s experience that should lead to something more long term.

[Wolfie]

The big firms outsource the grunt work to India.

[Slambat]

“Does Florida have too many lawyers?”

Yes and so does the rest of the country. Like the phone
companies caller ID block, block unblock and block unblock
block. The lawyers in this country are the worlds worst at
creating a demand and filling it. There are no telling how
many laws out there that were passed and put into place just
to employ lawyers. The old saying “a man who represents
himself has a fool for a client” the laws are so ambiguous and
the courts so bureaucratic that an innocent man can
get convicted simply for not having the proper paperwork
to present evidence in his defense.

Also I think that being a lawyer and a politician is a
conflict of interest. What does a lawyer know about energy,
agriculture, education and health when all they are taught
is bureaucratic navigation. Not to mention tort.

There are a lot of problems in this country that are
crated by the saturation of the field. The more lawyers
the more laws. They are going to have to do something
to continue getting those high fees. Maybe they will do
like they did with Obamacare, make it a mandate to
keep a lawyer on retainer.

[BRK]

According to NCEES, there are only about 22,000 Professional Engineers in Florida, with an additional 15,000 who live out of state. When your lawyers greatly outnumber the engineers, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[DJ MacWoW]

Did You Know?

The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?

Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running

[clearcarbon]

Comes the dawn of the minimum wage lawyer. Sometimes success does not bring good fortune.

[fatnotlazy]

The last law firm I worked for began downsizing about a year after I retired. Fewer lawyers and with that, smaller support staff. I was a legal secretary for 35 years. Today it would be almost impossible for me to find a job in that field. With the advent of laptops, Ipads and what not, law firms don't need that many secretaries. The lawyers can put together their own documents. There isn't enough work for a gaggle of secretaries.

[bikerman]

Florida has to many blood sucking bottom feeders, they advertise constantly on TV around here wanting to sue anyone for anything. No wonder nobody wants to accept responsibly any more, jump on the free money bandwagon sue someone.

[sitetest]

In Florida, there’s an inch of doctors listed in the Yellow Pages, and two inches of malpractice lawyers.

I guess the state has reached the saturation point with lawyers, at least.

[Paladin2]

Maybe the State can cut back on the number of Laws too.

[jumpingcholla34]

Corporate clients don't want to pay for the overhead of traditional law firms, and those firms are downsizing and slashing their hiring. It's amazing how little infrastructure it really takes to practice law these days, and savings can be passed on to clients. (You'd better be offering savings, or you won't get hired.) I left a big firm in Washington last year and got a DC mail drop, a VOIP phone with a DC area code, a malpractice policy, stationery and a web site. I cut my hourly rate and, although I'm not getting rich (I never was, so nothing there), I keep my bills paid and I run my own show. Most days, I just work from home.

When I started out as a lawyer, before word processing and the Internet, I could not have done this without at least a secretary, a permanent office and an expensive hard-copy law library. Now, I can compete with the big boys by working for the clients who got to know me during my big-firm days, and offering those clients a much-reduced hourly rate. I also don't have to share my fees with a group of high-level partners who take 1/3 for themselves and 1/3 for the firm's expensive overhead, leaving me with 1/3 of the money I busted my butt to earn.

[dfwgator]

Does Florida have too many lawyers?

Does a bear.......

[morphing libertarian]

Can’t we close all law schools for 20 years and prohibit attorneys from holding public office?

[MaxMax]

Kids coming out of Law school are not lawyers, they're green as green gets.
Most didn't work hard but expect that fat check and job on graduation that the schools
promised them. Not in the real world unless they're connected. Then there's
the issue of passing the Bar which most students will put off until they find a job.

Meanwhile they're so stacked with debt the search become hopeless. The smart ones will
take their work ethic to other areas and not really seek to become a Lawyer. Law enforcement
will hire them but Florida has recently cut back 250 officers in Miami, not sure about elsewhere.

In 2011 there were about 50k graduates from Law school, 2014 may be more.
Almost as useless as Liberal Arts.

[Rodamala]

In Florida, they need throngs of Government-Medical Industrial Complex Zombies to act as front line death panel facilitators. The goal is to extract all the finances of the retirees in the nursing homes. No English Speaking skills required, however applicants with experience sexing baby chicks and drowning litters of kittens in burlap feedsacks will be given preference. Applicants will be required to demostrate proficency in maximizing pai and humiliation using catheters, and syringes.

[Gritty]

I read a couple of years ago that the United States has more lawyers than the rest of the world combined.

I doubt that ratio has diminished in the intervening years.