Our friend Steve Moore has an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal on how the fear of litigation is leading to the removal of diving boards at pools. You can read it here.
While you’re in an anti-lawyer frame of mind, you might also want to read a companion piece which makes the point that law school is terribly oversold to young Americans as a path to success. For many, it’s just a very costly path to nowhere in particular.
As I argued here, law school is mostly a high barrier to entry that the legal profession uses to keep down competition.
