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Decline of the Legal Profession in the USA

I read with interest an article stating that a new staffer at a law firm makes 180,000 starting in the USA. I read this with interest because I have worked with hundreds of older US lawyers and know that none of them make over 80,000. In fact most of that older attorney income is from activities that do not require a law degree or membership in a bar association.

My point is that as a SysAdmin, you are more qualified to assess the business risk than the legal you chatted with last week. You probably make more money than he or she does and if you do not currently do so and are a US citizen IT worker you likely will be soon. Lawyers make notoriously bad business people because when there are problems the solution is all to often approached from a legal perspective - bring in an H1-B, sue, you get the idea.

If you sign up for any kind of an access provider these days (ClearWire, AOL, whatever) you usually get diskspace and the capabilities to host your own full featured web site with Wiki and BLOGs and videos etc. The Web 2.0 kids demand this kind of thing. We should all be taking classes in it.

If there are legal issues, they will be resolved for responsible operators under the reasonable man rules IMO.

From a business man perspective - do the best you can to be responsible and I doubt you even need to incorporate. Our democracy needs exactly the kind of thing your legal advises against. Does that make sense? Dismiss him/her.

The entire legal profession in the USA is in decline owing primarily to Bill Neukom, formally of Microsoft, and now president of the American Bar Association, who established an ethical standard so low that corporate lawyers in Washington state now put corporate officers on the stand who they know will lie and yet those corporate lawyers can not be disbarred for an ethics violation. We have no use in a proper society for a legal profession like that. If it remains as Neukom has structured it , the profession will decline and become even less relevant because all the knowledge of the profession is being put on the web. No other profession is so threatened by Web 2.0.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 07/12/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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