[vidarh]

In the UK, lawyers have for a long time earned on average substantially below the average salary, and that is driven up by the top end London firms (where partners can earn millions).

The reality is that in many countries most lawyers don't earn very much, because they're not top end litigators or counsel to large companies, but spend most of their time writing "low value" documents or letters for clients with little money.

This doesn't seemed to have caused the supply of people wanting to study law to dry up.