New
regulations for senior lawyers aren’t needed
More
“nanny-state” interference and regulations are inherently aborning per the
recent President’s letter. Every bureaucrat
needs some legacy, some hitherto undiscovered problem found by him or her,
blown out of proportion, expanded by the appointment of a committee headed by a
future bureaucrat or candidate for some office wherein he or she can create
another legend. All of a sudden, as there are more lawyers in California, there
are more older lawyers in California. Well now, that’s sure a surprise. A
further surprise is that older lawyers have problems. But not to worry. The
Nanny Bar will appoint a committee and make those older lawyer problems just go
away just as gun control laws reduce gun crimes.
Maybe
older lawyers should provide special medical fitness reports in years when they
don’t provide MCLE certificates so the State Bar can keep subjecting them to
its rules and powers and, of course, growing the size and budget of the State
Bar. After that, younger lawyers will have to show they have sufficient
experience. I noticed in the bar’s demographics that there is actually a
licensed lawyer who is all of 22 years old! Could it be possible (s)he requires
mandatory mentoring? How could a 22-year-old offer legal and related advice to
a CEO or a criminal client? If the geezers need help, so do the whiz kids. The
Nanny Bar never stops.
In
fact, it’s all about power – the power to tell other people how best to conduct
their lives, all done ostensibly for the clients. They are but the cover, the
rationale, so the moral preeners may act and create their legend.
It
never stops.
Jim
Sweeney
Pasadena, Calif.
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