A SPECIAL REPORT: LAWYERS
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LEGAL OVERLOAD?: Orange County, which hosts the State Bar convention in Anaheim starting today, has nearly 9,000 lawyers of its own, a 40% increase in 10 years. . . . Some legal pundits wonder about a glut, but Superior Court Judge William W. Bedsworth says no. “The problem is not too many lawyers, but too many problems,” says Bedsworth, a local bar columnist and himself a legal pundit. “Even the ambulance chaser doesn’t find work without someone to chase.”
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The growth in the number of lawyers in the county. In thousands 1991: 8.8 1989: 8.0 1987: 7.2 1985: 6.5 1983: 5.9 1981: 5.2 Source: California Bar Assn.
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