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Are Lawyers Getting Cheaper?

Random facts: I got curious, given the glut of lawyers out there (the BLS data people are citing says 44K graduates and 30K job openings a year in the U.S.), whether fees are being driven down.

The only data I can find is from Canada, and it suggests that they are — pretty profoundly:

(The last graph in this PDF.)

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  1. Asymptosis » What if the Doctor Market Was Like the Lawyer Market?

    […] glut has been going on for a while, and at least in Canada (the only place I’ve found data) it’s been having predictable effects on legal fees — down 40% in nine years […]