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Text 2 All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other professionwith the possible exception of journalism.

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools.

But most law graduates never get a big-firm job.

Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

There are many reasons for this.

One is the excessive costs of a legal education.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states:a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

This leaves today's average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.

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