{"id":5185,"date":"2004-12-11T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/11\/crow-with-a-mouthful\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:08","slug":"crow-with-a-mouthful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/11\/crow-with-a-mouthful\/","title":{"rendered":"crow with a mouthful"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christmas eve-
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\"crow  by <\/FONT>Pamela Miller Ness<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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credits: “on the highwire” – “Summerday, Puget Sound,” a haiku sequence<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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           “Christmas eve” – Modern Haiku<\/EM> XXIX:2 (Summer 1998)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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waiting room –<\/DIV>
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the masked man<\/DIV>
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one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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Do Lawyers Slow Income Growth?<\/STRONG>  First <\/FONT><\/FONT>we mentioned<\/FONT><\/A> Prof. Magee’s estimate of lost   \"plunge <\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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productivity; then <\/FONT>RiskProf extrapolated<\/FONT><\/A> some new numbers; now, Walter <\/FONT>Olson points<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to a recent <\/FONT>study<\/FONT><\/A> on lawyers per capita per state, described in an <\/FONT>article<\/FONT><\/A> at Expansion-<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Management.com.  <\/EM> Despite his awesome concession, I’m not sure Walter’s suggestion <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of a better yardstick would work <\/FONT>very well, either:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Where you have a lot of business centers, generally you will have a lot of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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attorneys, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are bad for the economy,” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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said Walter Olson, founder and editor of the Web site, <\/FONT>www.overlawyered.com<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Olson said he has a better yardstick. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“If you could measure how many attorneys are out there advertising for injury cases, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that would be a much better indicator for how high the expected hassle value is of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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doing business in a given state,” he pointed out.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV>
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on the highwire crow with a mouthful buzzed by a sparrow       Christmas eve-the row of cut trees no one took home     by Pamela Miller Ness credits: “on the highwire” – “Summerday, Puget Sound,” a haiku sequence            “Christmas eve” – Modern Haiku XXIX:2 (Summer 1998)   by dagosan:   waiting room – the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1lD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13466,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/13466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}