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A new book by a former lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a thrill to the already
A new book by a former lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a thrill to the already
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2022-08-04
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A new book by a former lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a thrill to the already upset legal profession. In The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis, Steven J. Harper argues that legal jobs are disappearing not because of short-term economic fluctuations but because of powerful long-term trends. The word bubble is an overstatement, but Harper deserves credit for sounding the alarm.
The decline in the market for lawyers is being driven by an array of forces. For some time now, corporate clients have been less willing to sign off on bulky legal bills. They have increasingly been unwilling to pay the top hourly rates of $1,000 that some partners charge. And as a result of globalization, an increasing share of American legal work is being shipped overseas. Lawyers in lower-wage markets are willing to do the work for a fraction of what American law firms would charge. Taking away even more of this work: newly sophisticated legal software that can do "document review" and other tasks for which lawyers were once needed.
The legal market is without question soft these days. Last June, the Association for Legal Career Professionals released a grim report stating that only 65.4% of law-school graduates had found jobs for which it was necessary to pass a state bar exam. And the Internet is full of first-hand accounts of law-school graduates who say that their law degree has not helped them get a law job—and, worse still, those who report that their degree has actually hurt their job prospects, since some employers now tell them they are overqualified for nonlegal positions.
Harper argues that the profession’s leaders are a big part of the problem. He contends that big-firm managers are too focused on maximizing profits for the biggest partners—at the expense of junior lawyers and the long-term interest of the firm. And he faults law-school deans for putting the interests and salaries of law professors ahead of the interests of their underemployed, debt-ridden students.
Controversial as it is, Harper’s big-picture argument is undoubtedly correct, and it is a real cause for concern. Bar associations and legal academics have begun talking about how the profession should adapt—discussions that should have begun much earlier. The biggest problem with The Lawyer Bubble is not the warning it is sounding but its title; unlike other speculative bubbles in the past, lawyers will always be a necessity not a passing fashion. But then, The Very, Very Challenging Job Market for Lawyers doesn’t have the same ring to it.
The author thinks that Harper’s argument in the book is ________.
选项
A、alarming yet exaggerating
B、disputable yet reasonable
C、controversial and doubtable
D、correct and reasonable
答案
B
解析
本题考查作者的观点。从最后一段第一句可以看出,作者认为虽然Harper的整体论点(big-picture argument)是有所争议的(controversial),但毫无疑问还是正确的(undoubtedly correct)。该段第三句作者又提到The biggest problem…its title,表明作者认为书名还有待商榷,故选B项“作者认为这本书是disputable (有争议的),但是reasonable(合理的)”。A项“有警示作用但过于夸张”,文章第一段最后一句提到文章标题中的“泡沫”一词虽有夸大,但能敲响警钟(sound the alarm),这里强调的是bubble一词的使用,而最后一段第一句的undoubtedly correct和it选a real cause for concern,也说明Harper的论证并不夸张,而是实际存在的问题;C项“有争论而且令人怀疑”,controversial在最后一段第一句提到,但doubtable“令人怀疑的”不正确;D项“正确且合理”,前半部分说correct“正确的”,说法过于绝对,作者只是说他的整体论点(big-picture argument)是正确的,但仍然controversial“有争议的”。
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