Too few lawyers?
China seems to be boasting about the increasing number of lawyers and the increasing number of billable hours.Remember as you look at the numbers in this Xinhua release that the Chinese population is over 1 billion and the number of active attorneys in the USA is over 1 million.
China's law profession advances as nation builds rule-of-law system
China has seen progress in the development of the law profession as it strives to build a country based on the rule of law.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the country had more than 15,000 law firms, more than 166,000 lawyers, and more than 220,000 people working in the sector at the end of 2009.
By Oct. 2009, foreign law firms from 21 countries had set up 224 representatives offices in China, while law firms from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region had set up 65 offices on the mainland, the ministry said…
Statistics show in 2008, lawyers billed their clients 30.9 billion yuan (4.54 billion U.S. dollars) and paid more than 4 billion yuan in taxes.
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Labels: China, political culture, rule-of-law
posted by Ken Wedding @ 5:33 AM
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