Developments in the Legal Profession

The Crowded Profession.

Overproduction and reduced consumer demand were concerns not just for the nation's manufacturers and businessmen but for the legal profession as well. Among law practitioners everywhere, overcrowding was a much-discussed topic. Such worries actually translated into far more specific concerns: declining incomes from increased competition and the need to restrict the flow of new lawyers flooding the field. Between 1932 and 1937, nine thousand aspiring lawyers graduated each year from law schools throughout the nation. Many found the traditional road to career success blocked by the absence of available jobs with the more-established law firms. Upheaval in the country's economy had resulted in the reduction or closing of an astonishing number of corporate legal departments. The New Deal and the Roosevelt administration had offered new employment opportunities but principally to those who had more recently...

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