The action was “in protest at a possible reform that could cut them out of many divorce cases.” Notaries public would be authorized to handle many divorces involving mutual consent, at a large likely savings to divorcing couples. (AP/IHT, Dec. 19).
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At the very least French lawyers’ groups are more honest than their American counterparts:
“Lawyers’ groups contend the measure would deprive lawyers of an important source of revenues.”
Apparently it really is about the money.
France has 46,000 lawyers? It has a population of 60 million.
Multiply 46,000 by 5, you get, 230,000. With our population of 300 million, we have 1.3 million lawyers.
If lawyer employment is threatened with a fifth our per capita lawyer supply, what would happen if notaries sought to divorce people here?
What would it take to get our lawyers to strike?