anisms over which they exercise little influence" ("Transformation" 19). The struggle to maintain restrictions is gradually being lost in the courts and the loss of certain restrictions, such as those on legal service plans and the practice of some aspects of the law by lay competitors, has tended to increase competition among lawyers to an even greater degree than was suspected when the proliferation of new lawyers began in the 1980s. The response of the legal establishment was the sudden growth of large firms, "the most dramatic organ
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