It is lawyers who run our civilization for us-our governments, our businesses, our private lives. ...We cannot buy a home or rent an apartment, we cannot get married or try to get divorced, we cannot leave our property to our children without calling on the lawyers to guide us. To guide us, incidentally, through a maze of confusing gestures and formalities that lawyers have created. ...The legal trade, in short, is nothing but a high-class racket.
— Fred Rodell
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