Nationwide Layoff Watch: All Lawyers To Be 'Abolished'?

It's a good thing this movie's predictions for the legal profession haven't come true.

The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers.

— Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown (Christopher Lloyd), a character from the movie Back to the Future (Part II), explaining to an exasperated Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) how his son, Marty McFly Jr., could have been tried, convicted, and sentenced within two hours of his arrest. The elder McFly had just arrived in the future, on October 21, 2015, via flying time machine from October 26, 1985.

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