ing to the more expensive accredited law schools. Now a first step at gaining a monopoly at what schools lawyers must attend was successful. During the depression and WW II the unaccredited schools were driven out, thus a true monopoly over the entrance into the profession was completed.The next step to further the monopoly was to mandate that all accredited law schools mandate that all law students must have a college education. The Bar would and was in constant battle with state legislatures of trying to further regulate bar admittance. The Bar Association established a character and fitness test to regulate and discourage the number of immigrants and minorities from applying.The ABA also attempted was to ensure self-regulation, doing this the legal profession would maintain itself as a legitimate profession. They must do this by lobbying government. This proved to highly successful for lawyers as they gained ground by working with other professionals and making treaties and lobbying. It would not seem that difficult to me, since most politicians were lawyers themselves, and much of that was to secure the governments willingness and ability to the ABA. It goes without saying that members of the ABA will do what is in the best interest to lock the legal profession by the use of legislative laws, and those making the laws themselves are ABA members. For the most part the ABA was successful in monopolizing the profession and continues to do so, it has taken them much hardship and time. Even though there is a rise in the number of lawyers, the ABA will limit those who pass the bar to balance the workforce. One area that the ABA has been very successful is creating an ethnic monopoly. Not very minorities are lawyers for various policies and regulations established by the bar thus blacks framed the NBA, no not the National Basketball Association but the National Bar Association. This association is becoming very powerful, they...
