So, Who Is the American Bar Association Looking Out For? Probably Not You, It Would Seem.

The American Bar Association has recently issued an ethics opinion that discusses the outsourcing of jobs away from American lawyers and to Indian lawyers without the slightest indication that it might be a matter for concern.

Here is a nice article about that opinion.

Frankly, I'm stunned. Although I'm easily stunned, these days.

But State Bar Associations have historically seen to it that lawyers practicing in their jurisdictions were subject to their ethical rules and sanctions.

It appears to me that those State Bar Associations have been usurped.

And do you think that the lawyers who are displaced by those lawyers working for rupees will be sad? Or broke?

Or bankrupt?

Or suicidal?

And do you think the loss of revenue from the U.S. Economy will be helpful in the context of our ongoing depression?

And do you think that lawyers all over the United States will dump their memberships in the American Bar Association in protest, as well as seeing to it that their state bar associations address the issue in a different way?

It will be interesting to see how the issue unfolds, and whether U.S. Lawyers will vote with their wallets in protest.

But my take is that the American Bar Association has instantly made itself very unpopular among lawyers in the United States; and it may deserve whatever consequences it reaps.

p.s. on the other hand, those U.S. lawyers who would have been employed but for the American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion can still get jobs. Hey, there are a lotta jobs in food service. Everybody's gotta eat, you know?

Oh, that's right! There aren't a lotta jobs in food service, because so many restaurant owners have filed bankruptcy, because this is a depression!