Why does it take so long to become a lawyer? Why do laywers have a monopoly?

[srdiamond]

Originally Posted by srdiamond

At:
http://kanbaroo.blogspot.com/2007/11...lment-law.html, you can find an argument against restrictions on legal representation that doesn't depend on "free market" economics. Instead, the appeal is to U.S. Constitutional rights and the conditions for effective legal representation.

see http://kanBARoo.blogspot.com generally for a critique of the Bar establishment. Guaranteed not to be your parents' critique.

See also (more directly to the point): State Bar versus the Right to Self-Representation