In 1911, NY Lawyers Didn’t Have Enough Business.

“Hard times have beset many lawyers in Manhattan and the Bronx.”

Subtitled “Too Many in New York for the Amount of Business,” an article from a 1911 newspaper, discussed that in New York there wasn’t enough business to go around.

In fact, 680 lawyers were dropped from the NY county bar association for non-payment of dues, even though they cost “only $10 a year.”  One quarter of them “frankly confessed that they were unable to make more than a bare living.”

I wonder if there were any consultants offering marketing and business-development training back then?