The Los Angeles Times profiles a lawyer who specializes in representing Los Angeles landlords:

In a DVD he gives to landlords, Block describes himself this way: “A man who has evicted more tenants than any other human being on the planet Earth.”

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That’s where Block comes in. He has dedicated his considerable creativity and intelligence to helping landlords evict tenants from rent-stabilized buildings. He boasts that his firm has filed more than 130,000 cases since 1980, a year after rent stabilization went into effect. He helps landlords identify minor violations — a pet fish in an aquarium, a brightly painted bathroom, an extra occupant — to toss out long-term tenants who are paying below market for their homes.

Because L.A.’s rent stabilization laws prohibit landlords from raising rents anywhere near market value until a tenant vacates the apartment, and the only way to force a tenant to vacate is to evict them based on “good cause,” Dennis Block can make a living filing 5,000 eviction cases a year. Rent control as full employment for lawyers.