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【美国律师赚钱压力大】 导读：在美国，一般法学院毕业生除了本科欠下的 债款外，还背负 10 万美元巨债，他们尽量在能多赚钱的岗 位上埋头苦干。 America ’s lawyers 美国律师 Guilty as charged 赚钱压力大 Cheaper legal education and more liberal rules would benefit America ’s lawyers — and their clients 更低廉的法学教育成本和更 自由的政策将使美国律师和他们的客户受益 Feb 2nd 2013 |From the print edition ALL around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession —with the possible exception of journalism. But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America. 从世界范围看，除了记者， 律师大概就是最容易惹祸上身的职业了。而美国又是客户对 律师抱怨得最凶的地方。 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. 在经济危机前的十年里， 美国人的 法律服务花费增长速度是通货膨胀速度的两倍。最杰出的律 师能赚到堆起来像摩天大楼一样高的钱，这诱使着越来越多 的学生争先恐后地涌向法学院。 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. 然而，多数的法学专业毕业生一辈子 也进不了知名律所，只能给别人打鸡毛蒜皮的小官司。正是 他们使侵权索赔制度变成了价格高昂的噩梦。 According to a study in 2006, America has more lawyers per person of its population than any of 29 countries studied (except Greece), and it spends two to three times as much on its tort system, as a percentage of GDP, as other big economies (except Italy, where things are nearly as bad). 一项 2006 年的研究显示，美国的律师占总人口之比高于任 何其他 29 个被调查的国家（希腊除外） ，美国人在侵权诉讼 上的花费占国内生产总值的比例是其他大国（情况几乎和美 国一样糟糕的意大利除外）的两到三倍。 There are many reasons for this. One is the extortionate costs of a legal education. The