I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table and there have to be other people who are doing that....Scalia wonders why you aren't out "inventing the automobile or, you know, doing something productive for this society?"
And they appear here in the Court, I mean, even the ones who will only argue here once and will never come again. I’m usually impressed with how good they are. Sometimes you get one who’s not so good. But, no, by and large I don’t have any complaint about the quality of counsel, except maybe we’re wasting some of our best minds.
Scalia "worr[ies] that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to [law]."
You're a smart kid. Do you really want to be a lawyer?
