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To: elmatador who wrote (62142)	4/17/2005 10:20:11 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

Your client may not be saying the truth!! Have you consider that? Of course, but so what? I still have a duty to enquire.

To: elmatador who wrote (62142)	4/17/2005 11:49:02 AM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 74559

Your client may not be saying the truth!! Have you consider that? Lawyers are there to protect liers and pratice lies, most of the time, if not always. It is in their training to be like that. No wonder USA has the highest number of liers (I mean lawyers) per capita. mwhodges.home.att.net USA Leads the World in Lawyers "America has 281 lawyers for every 100,000 people, compared to Britain with 94, 33 in France and a mere 7 in Japan. Americans have a proper contempt for the vast mass of lawyers." Source - The Economist, page 35, December 16, 2000 MORE LAWYERS EQUATES TO LARGER TRADE DEFICITS AND HIGHER INFLATION ?? Author's comment: It is interesting that the chart ranking of the nations regarding lawyer concentration correlates with the same ranking concerning trade competitiveness and inflation rates. Trade: while America has the highest density of lawyers it also has the greatest current account (foreign trade competitiveness) deficit ratio to GDP. Japan with the fewest lawyers has the world's highest trade surplus. Current account data 2003: USA 5% GDP deficit, Britain 2.1% GDP deficit, France 1.3% surplus, Japan 3% surplus. Same as ranking December 2000: USA 4.3% GDP deficit, Britain 1.6% deficit, France 2.3% surplus, Japan 2.5% surplus. (see International Trade Report ) Inflation: the higher a nation's lawyer density the higher is it's inflation ratio, in comparison to other nations. Inflation data 2000 period: USA 3.4% (with doctored numbers - see Inflation Report ), Britain 3.2%, France 2.25%, Japan 0%. From this data one could argue that the higher a nation's lawyer ratio the less competitive it is regarding international trade - and the higher it's inflation rate. The above chart suggests that once a nation has more than 50 lawyers per 100,000 person population the above correlation results. It could further be argued that by this measure the USA, with a lawyer density ratio of 281, has 5 times too many lawyers. Whatever the excess, the fact citizen trust in the ethics of lawyers reaching new lows suggests troubling implications looking forward. A November 2003 email from a reader in Austria: "One of the items in the US where we shake our heads about is the high number of lawyers taking over the whole society and literally keeping it at ransom. In Europe, if one looses a lawsuit, he has to pay all costs. This makes suing risky." UPDATE > 2003 data shows the number of lawyers per 100,000 citizens increased to 361 (compared to 281 shown in above chart), according to population data and American Bar Assoc. (http://www.abanet.org/marketresearch/2002nbroflawyersbystate.pdf)