"I think what we should do is if you don't have a law degree, call yourself a lawyer," he says. "In that way, it distinguished the folks who didn't, I was a joke." He's not aware of any restrictions on advertising legal services in late-night TV ads. 'It seems like the information content of legal advertising is more just the existence of certain services'
Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for lawyers and the role of lawyers in the political process. Drawing on a new co-authored book, First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers, Winston argues that restrictions on the supply of lawyers and increases in demand via government regulation artificially boost lawyers' salaries. Deregulation of the supply (by eliminating licensing) would lower price and encourage innovation.