2030:  The Rule of Lawyers – A Prediction

Part I:  Lawyers in the 1950s and 1960s

Fifty-five years ago, a systems analyst/computer programmer trainee at the Chase Manhattan Bank was paid $7,200/year.  With two years, automatic raises elevated that number to $10,200.

Fifty-five years ago, the Median income of a practicing American lawyer was $7,000 – half made more and half made less.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the two most famous high-income lawyers who became millionaires were Louis Nizer, whose half-dozen most famous cases became a best-seller book, and a criminal defense lawyer Percy Foreman who bragged that he never lost a client.  Many of his super-rich clients were convicted of murder – but none of them was executed.  (Life in prison was a ‘victory’ for his millionaire clients.)

Part II:  Lawyers in the 2030s – A Prediction

By the year 2030, in this country, Ruled by Lawyers, I predict that one criminal and civil law defendant will have paid $1 billion in aggregate Lawyer fees.

That defendant is Sean (Diddy) Combs.

Due Process of Law as exclusively defined by Lawyers and Judges is MANDATORY!