Society cannot afford to have such a huge proportion of its best minds going into the law.
— Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, commenting on the state of the legal profession at the 2012 Midyear Meeting of the American Bar Association in New Orleans.
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(Justice Scalia comments on Biglaw’s flawed compensation system, after the jump.)
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There’s something wrong with a system where getting someone just a little bit brighter is worth that kind of money.
— Justice Scalia, noting that with $250,000 clerkship bonuses, his former SCOTUS clerks make more money than he does.