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Originally Posted by NoRegrets
Among the Top 8 "lawyerly countries" listed below, the US has about 50% of the lawyers, with 37 percent of the population of this group.
US: Lawyers: 1,143,358 Pop: 303MM P/L:265
Brazil: Lawyers: 571,360 Pop: 186MM P/L: 326
New Zealand: Lawyers: 10,523 Pop: 4MM P/L 391
Spain Lawyers:114,143 Pop: 45MM P/L:395
Italy Lawyers:121,380 Pop: 59MM P/L:488
UK Lawyers:151,043 Pop: 61MM P/L401
Germany Lawyers:138,679 Pop: 82MM P/L: 593
France Lawyers:45,686 Pop: 64MM P/L: 1,403
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The reason why other countries are doing better than us. We spend to much time sueing each other. Japan and Germany has more Engineers than they have lawyers. They can build better cars!
Lee Iaccoca predited this decades ago. He may be an Engineer and businessman, but he sure knows what the heck is going on far better than all the politicians and Lawyers.