The
Wisconsin Bar recently conducted a dues-funded study demonstrating the obvious:
(1) many new lawyers were drowning in debt and couldn’t find law-related jobs;
and (2) many of these new lawyers were afraid to hang their own shingle because
they were never trained to practice law and feared committing malpractice. I then mocked the Wisconsin Bar when, shortly
after its study, it sent out an unrelated email suggesting that new lawyers
reduce their anxieties by doing unpaid legal work for real
clients. But as clueless as the
Wisconsin Bar was, the California Bar may have just topped it.
