Except it doesn’t – it’s happened before.

The statmement refers to 1970’s America. About which, the source of the quote, Laura Kalman, history professor and author of the book Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980, also declares, “Yet the reputation of lawyers had never been lower.”

Such reminiscing about the cycles of popularity of the profession has led one commentator to speculate:

Law is one of those fields we project fantasies on but that’s possible to enter.  All we have to do is be good at taking a standardized test…  That’s different from lines of work like professional sports, modeling…

Perhaps that’s why there’s such unhappiness among lawyers as well as well above average substance abuse and suicide: we get to play the game and it rarely matches the fantasy. The only tragedy worse than that is getting to marry the perfect spouse we created in our minds, only to discover a flawed human who we don’t know. ~Law and More

Wow, is it really that bad?