"In the last 10 to 15 years, three related crises have emerged with respect to the legal profession: 'professionalism' has declined, public opinion of attorneys and the legal profession has plummeted, and lawyer dissatisfaction and dysfunction have increased. At the same time, there appears to be a perception that attorneys differ from 'other people' in a variety of ways. [A]ttorneys and persons choosing to attend law school have specific empirically demonstrable personality characteristics, and. . . these characteristics are partially responsible for the current [tripartite] crisis in the legal profession."

Susan Daicoff, 46 Lawyer Know Thyself: A Review of Empirical Research on Attorney Attributes Bearing Upon Professionalism, 46 American University Law Review 1337, 1340, 1342 (1997)