A lawyer’s paradise

“The United States has fiver percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of its incarcerated people and 50 percent of the world’s lawyers. The legal profession takes about 10 percent of the country’s GDP, approximately $1.5 trillion, a sum close to entire GDP, depending on exchange rates, of Russia, India or China.”


Conrad Black, The Spectator, 21 April 2012.