Lawyers Overseeing Lawyers: Can lawyers police themselves? A new look at self-regulation
Cover Story • July 3, 2006
No country has as many lawyers as the United States - more than 152,000 in California alone - three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal ...
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Subject: Self-regulation
Posted On: January 2, 2007, 8:12 am CST
Posted By: Sidney Gendin
Comment:
Almost every problem with lawyers providing internal oversight has an analogue with other large, so-called professional organizations. The medical profession, the police and Congress itself simply cannot do the job of self-regulation. In part, this is a consequence of bureaucracy, in part it is due to public indifference, but mostly it is the result of the arrogance of power which, as Lord Acton told us more than 100 years ago, tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal wrongly said that the call for external oversight over Congress is "passing the buck" but WSJ ignores the history of the world. As things now stand, despite the rhetoric, our country is a nation of men and not, as it should be, a nation of laws.
Subject: Self-regulation
Recently, the Wall Street Journal wrongly said that the call for external oversight over Congress is "passing the buck" but WSJ ignores the history of the world. As things now stand, despite the rhetoric, our country is a nation of men and not, as it should be, a nation of laws.