Comments on: Erwin Chemerinsky’s Gift to Southern California

By: tyree

tyree — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:22:07 +0000

We still need more doctor, nurses, engineers and electricians…

and fewer lawyers.

By: SSFC

SSFC — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:55:46 +0000

Good to hear Jwill. I’ll amend the post accordingly.

By: JWill

JWill — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:53:39 +0000

Maybe you didn’t research this enough, because the title is “60 new laywers at taxpayer expense”

Most of the funding for this is from private sources, such as a 20m grant from a development fund in Irvine. They are not asking for additional state money.

By: Dirk D

Dirk D — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:41:01 +0000

“The US has over 70% of the worlds attornyes and only 5% of the population.”

In other news, 76.35% of statistics are made up.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most_lawyers_per_capita

By: throckmorton

throckmorton — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:25:48 +0000

Here are some interesting facts. According to the American Bar Association the US graduated over 40,000 attornyes last year. We graduated only 16,000 physicians. The US has over 70% of the worlds attornyes and only 5% of the population.