A Different Kind of Crisis on the Bench
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
We should be cutting judges’ starting salaries—and faculty salaries at “leading law schools”—and using the money instead to reform access to legal education and legal services. It sickens me to read about paying judges more when ordinary Americans can’t afford basic legal services, yet lawyer unemployment abounds. If there is any kind of crisis in the federal judiciary, it’s apparently that the bench and its groupies have lost touch with economic reality.
Recommended Citation
Richard J. Steele, A Different Kind of Crisis on the Bench, Wash. Law., Dec. 2012, https://www.dcbar.org/bar-resources/publications/washington-lawyer/articles/december-2012-letters.cfm [https://perma.cc/LG96-E68C].
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Originally posted on the Washington Lawyer website in 2012.