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Hostility towards the legal profession is a universal phenomenon. The legal
profession was abolished in Prussia in 1780 and in France in 1789, though both
countries eventually realized that their judicial systems could not function
efficiently without lawyers. Complaints about too many lawyers were common in
both England and the United States in the 1840s Germany in the 1910s, and in
Australia, Canada, the United States, and Scotland in the 1980s. Public distrust of lawyers reached record heights in the United States after the Watergate scandal. In the aftermath of Watergate, legal self-help books became popular among those who wished to solve their legal problems without having to deal with lawyers. In 1989, American legal self-help publisher Nolo Press published a 171-page compilation of negative anecdotes about lawyers from throughout human history. |
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