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Real estate, one of the traditional bread-and-butter practice areas for young lawyers, no longer is as profitable, Dubois said. Consolidations have wiped away
local banks. More basic legal work, like real estate document preparation, is heading overseas to India where lawyers with 30 years' experience charge $10 an
hour for their services.
"There are more people fighting over a smaller pot and they have to compete with price," Dubois said. "That makes it difficult to pay the rent."
Ripper's case "may be, sadly, the story of another lawyer who became irrelevant" due to rapid changes in the practice of law, Dubois said.
MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE
When lawyers are solo practitioners or work in law firms with a handful of attorneys -- as the majority of the bar membership does -- it's easy for lawyers to feel
lost and helpless, said Fairfield attorney Frederic Ury.
That opens the door for Connecticut to consider adopting a law office management assistance program, as several others states have done, Ury said. Those
programs, much like Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, are designed to be confidential, but they offer help in getting lawyers' practices back in order when they
lose control of their finances or the workload overwhelms them.
"In those programs, people come in and help you not do something drastic," said Ury, who heads a state bar association task force on the future of the legal
profession. "At a time like this, that would be something worthwhile to look at."
Ury said there's little time for socializing when lawyers are scrambling for business, and members of the bar don't interact with each other enough to know when
a fellow bar member is in trouble.
Harvey, the Wethersfield attorney, said the topic of lawyers feeling like they're losing control never comes up in conversations until something tragic happens.
"I don't think lawyers talk about any of this until after the fact," he said. "People are just running around, trying to help their clients and get home by 6 o'clock."
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