Comments on: “Why lawyers rule the U.S….” https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/04/why-lawyers-rule-the-us/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Picador https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/04/why-lawyers-rule-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-47692 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:04:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=10863#comment-47692 Funny tidbit from the Economist article one link through, making the case that lawyers have infiltrated the Obama administration: did you know that BOTH the current attorney general AND the current solicitor general are LAWYERS?!!1!

Boy, when they find out that the Surgeon General has an MD, maybe they’ll launch an investigation into how the medical profession came to dominate politics…

]]> By: Todd Rogers https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/04/why-lawyers-rule-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-47681 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:28:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=10863#comment-47681 I think of the guild as having an intellectual monopoly over the rules which govern all transactions in a theoretically free-society. What’s more, a person can find himself in serious peril for even attempting to participate in the society’s rituals without first being academically indoctrinated and then successfully completing their test.

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