There's a good thread on Quora about the price of lawyers. Without logging in, the first answer is available here: http://www.quora.com/Attorneys/Why-are-lawyer

There's a good thread on Quora about the price of lawyers. Without logging in, the first answer is available here: http://www.quora.com/Attorneys/Why-are-lawyers-so-expensive-even-with-the-excess-supply-of-lawyers http://www.quora.com/Attorneys/Why-are-lawyers-so-expensive-... The second answer, which is also helpful, uses graphs from these articles, which helps illustrate the bimodal distribution: http://www.gradschools.com/article-detail/worst-reasons-law-school-1788 http://www.gradschools.com/article-detail/worst-reasons-law-... http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/the-two-track-lawyer-market/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/the-two-track-l...