Bankruptcy grace period

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 23 07:24:41 PST 2001



>>From: John Mage <jmage at panix.com>
>>
>>Justin, speaking as a lawyer who has on several occasions practiced in
>>bankruptcy court, advising folks to file for bankruptcy is NOT the
>>unauthorized practice of law. It's what good friends do for each other.
>
>Yeah, really. Justin, you may have come to the field of law late,
>but you've certainly wasted no time developing a lawyer's guild
>mentality.
>
>Carl

That's how any profession maintains its price of labor-power: gate-keeping. Doctors do it, professors do it, accountants do it. Professional gate-keeping is most often practiced through state licensing. In the case of university professors, gate-keeping is maintained by peer reviews & "apprenticeship." All cases call for advanced learning, access to which is narrowed by standardized exams & "weed-out courses."

In return for publicly sanctioned monopolies, professionals are supposed to serve "clients," instead of gouging "customers" all they can -- sometimes charging standardized fees, instead of wildly fluctuating prices directly determined by supply & demand; to eschew advertising; to uphold high standards of ethics & competence; and so on. :-)

Yoshie



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