Lawyers Overseeing Lawyers: Can lawyers police themselves? A new look at self-regulation

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 profession to order its affairs. Lawyers run its criminal justice system, prosecute and defend its civil actions, write the contracts for business and ...

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