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A few years ago, the Indiana Lawyer and the IBJ ran an article about the declining enrollment in law schools. Some schools responded by cutting back staff to adjust to the new realities. But as I recall, the McKinney law school dean at the time said that because of tenured faculty to support, they would just lower the entrance requirements in the hopes of attracting more law school students. This sounded to me that to avoid layoffs, the school was going to dumb down the profession.
I think the problem about the lack of lawyers is being over blown and is being driven by the “legal deserts” issue. However, one of the main reasons Indiana has so many so-called legal deserts is that Indiana has more counties per square mile than any other state in the U.S. What this means is that we have a lot of small counties that are just not large enough – population wise – to support full time lawyers (or doctors or other types of professionals).
Using the term legal deserts makes it seems like people in smaller counties have no access to lawyers. But I would not believe that there is any place in IN where a person is not within 30 minutes of access to a lawyer albeit in another county. I live in Hamilton County where there are plenty of lawyers. But if the lawyer I want to see is in downtown Indy, it will take me 30 minutes or more to get to that lawyer.
I work with lawyers all over the U.S. Trust me when I say that the law profession has been and continues to be not just an overcrowded profession, but a vastly overcrowded profession and the number of lawyers per person ratio is a meaningless reference point.
This is a great point. I like that you break down the desert isssue. People often that the first data point but do not relate it actual facts on the ground.
I wonder how important it is that people with these alternative licenses make a full living at it. Looking at their example of wills etc, I can see myself, and many others, doing that work part-time, under the supervision of an attorney. Most of those things are templated now anyway.
Well, John C., you go take your Marion County lawyer into a county two over from Marion County, where maybe the local political affiliations take precedence over the proper administration of justice…see how that works out for you.
When there aren’t enough local lawyers, and you have to bring in legal counsel from out of town, you get what the legal world routinely refers to as “homered”. And I don’t mean you hit the ball over the fence. I mean the home town folks get favors you can’t buy (or may be they’ve already been purchased).