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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Re: crimes on the net && proposed group "net.legal"
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Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 16:30:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 16:30:21 1983
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ihuxl!seifert suggests that there should be fewer lawyers. Well,
the fact that most of us are gainfully employed suggests that there's
a need for us. I would suggest that the large discrepancy between
the number of lawyers between the U.S. and Japan is mostly due to
the different attitudes and expectations of the *clients*. Many
people's reaction to adversity (accident, medical problem, business
difficulty) is "SUE!". Perhaps the Japanese have less adversarial ways
of working out disputes.
	Our legal system is tremendously complicated, in part due to
the vast number of interest groups which have lobbied for legislation
and regulation in every facet of society. The result is a system which
needs a lot of lawyers. Is this bad? Perhaps it's just one of the
costs of democracy in a society which is anything but cohesive in viewpoint.

Dave Sherman (yup, a real onnistugoodnus lawyer)
The Law Society of Upper Canada (utcsrgv!lsuc!dave)
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