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Misery Loves Company; And Lawyers Are About To Join You in Your Misery!

By Joseph McDaniel, Esq.

Let's look back over the last half-century: we started with more than enough jobs for everybody in the United States, and they were good jobs that paid well, because they were in industry or agriculture or other areas that actually produced a product that people needed to buy, and workers in our auto plants spent their money buying clothes and food and televisions produced in the United States, and everybody was happy.

And employers were making money, and so they provided health insurance as an inducement to obtain and keep workers in their various factories and retail establishments.

Fast forward to today: we know that the last television factory has long since left our shores, and that the last automobile plant has closed in California.

And we know that the real unemployment rate is around 20%, and it ain't gettin' better.

But recently the American Bar Association has made things a lot easier for workers, and also for the economy in general.

If we're talking about the economy in India!

Because the American Bar Association has recently issued an ethics opinion that permits the outsourcing of lawyer jobs to India, and elsewhere.

Now, what could be good about this?

Well, it means that the large-firm, big ticket lawyers of the old days are going to be a thing of the past sooner rather than later, or at least their armies of well-paid associates.

And that's good for everybody who hates lawyers, which is a large segment of the population.

But lawyers in large firms, and baby lawyers working on big cases involving lots of discovery, also took the money they made and bought dinners at local restaurants, and tipped the staff. They bought spiffy cars, some of which were manufactured in the United States. They bought clothes at the local department stores, and even if the clothes were manufactured elsewhere, that provided jobs for citizens here in the United States.

But as of today, it appears to me that the depression in the United States will continue without letup, and that things will continue to get worse, because one more source of money for small businesses across the United States has just swirled around and down the drain.

Now, what could be good about this?

Nothing!

But if there were something, what would that be?

Well, all citizens of the United States who previously had great jobs, making good money, can all sing "Kumbaya" together now.

Including doctors!

And that's gotta be good, right?

And finally, if everybody's poor, then nobody's poor, right?

p.s. I will be fascinated to see if lawyers across the United States immediately demand a return of their membership dues from the American Bar Association, and resign those memberships.

Now, it makes no particular nevermind to me; the law students (with gigantic student loans) who now can't get jobs because those were outsourced to India may, however, be a little cranky. Maybe.

And the restaurants that close because there are no jobs for the baby lawyers at Rich, Greedy and Powerful won't even know what hit them, so they won't be cranky at the ABA, but they didn't like 'em much to begin with!

p.p.s. Oh, yeah. I'll be handling more lawyer bankruptcy cases for experienced, excellent, top-ten rated lawyers who are not bankruptcy lawyers. They'll get to get in line with my accountants and chiropractors and dentists.

And if you think that I think any of this is funny, well, you're thinkin' wrong.

Full post as published by Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney Blog on August 08, 2010 (boomark / email).