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Founded in 1996, Lawmatch is the oldest dedicated legal employment service on the Internet. Our current fourth-generation Web site offers job seekers and employers the latest in Web-based recruitment tools and methodologies.

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Otherwise we invite you to visit our current "Praise for Lawyers" selection below. The profession inherently attracts a certain amount of bad press, so we decided to give some coverage to the other side of the story.

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Lawmatch dedicates this space on its homepage to Praise for Lawyers. Why?

Our previous excerpt from Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America describes the crucial role played by lawyers in American history. We now bring you a perhaps lesser-known text by Louis Brandeis, entitled "The Opportunity in the Law," which he wrote a full decade before his appointment to the Supreme Court. Any current observer might easily conclude it's as relevant today as it was in 1905.

If you know of a lawyer-lauding narrative that you'd like to see published here, please e-mail praisingthebar@lawmatch.com.

 Louis Brandeis

The Opportunity in the Law
Louis D. Brandeis
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Address delivered to the Harvard
Ethical Society, May 4, 1905.

[In addition to factors cited by de Tocqueville] . . . the paramount reason why the lawyer has played so large a part in our political life is that his training fits him especially to grapple with the questions which are presented in a democracy.  

The whole training of the lawyer leads to the development of judgment. His early training -- his work with books in the study of legal rule -- teaches him patient research and develops both the memory and the reasoning faculties. He becomes practised in logic; and yet the use of the reasoning faculties in the study of law is very different from their use, say, in metaphysics.  Read more.

Lawyers have been easy targets for popular humor since the dawn of lawyering.  In Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2, written over 400 years ago, Dick the Butcher cheerfully announces "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."  In context the line is really quite funny (as black humor goes); it undoubtedly elicited the same howls from Globe audiences in the 1590's as it does today.

Lawyers are easy targets for popular humor at least partly because they're also easy targets for popular outrage. When lawyers defend people who have committed heinous crimes, they're just doing their job, but the inevitable perception is that they're helping the bad guys.

Lawmatch thinks lawyers deserve a better rep.

Despite its 1+ million lawyers, the United States is still the preferred destination worldwide for people seeking a better life. A primary reason for this is our society's almost universal respect for the rule of law. The key markers of our country's appeal (e.g. economic opportunity, political stability, personal freedom) all derive from the expectation that our laws will protect us and our property from unlawful actions, will be applied equally to all citizens, and will generally promote a fair and just society.

The US was the first nation ever to enshrine a set of man-made laws (the Constitution) as its prime governing authority. More than two-thirds of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention were lawyers. Throughout our nation's history lawyers have played a vital role in the evolution, interpretation and administration of the law - those functions that collectively result in the rule of law. One might easily conclude that America could not exist as it does today were it not for the contributions of the legal profession.

Lawmatch has a sense of humor; we can laugh at a good lawyer joke as heartily as the next C Corp . . . but for all the reasons cited above, plus many more (including the obvious but tried-and-true ploy of flattering our prospective customers), we've decided to dedicate this space on our homepage to Praise for Lawyers.  We plan to update this space regularly: if you know of a lawyer-lauding narrative that you'd like to see featured here, please e-mail your suggestion to praisingthebar@lawmatch.com.