Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

Working eight hours, billing for twelve

Wait, you mean there’s an ethical problem with that? More coverage of the Ross survey (Thomas W. Krause, “Ethics Survey Finds Lawyers Lower The Bar”, Tampa Tribune, Jun. 24). Earlier: May 2.

Wait, you mean there’s an ethical problem with that? More coverage of the Ross survey (Thomas W. Krause, “Ethics Survey Finds Lawyers Lower The Bar”, Tampa Tribune, Jun. 24). Earlier: May 2.

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  • “35 percent of lawyers admit to stealing, according to that study.”
    I guess those are the “honest” ones?

  • An analysis of an ethics survey has to be one of the funniest topics I’ve heard in a very long time. I think you’d get more accurate results taking a survey asking prison inmates if they were unfairly convicted.

    • By Dick

  • Maybe the Three Stooges knew something when they named their law firm Dewey, Cheetham and Howe.

  • There’s a reason most people think of “lawyer” and “ethical behaviour” as antonyms.

    • By Deoxy

  • This article proves that I’ve earned every bit of my cynical attitude.