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Companies seem to pay lawyers a lot and I never hear of a shortage there.

The US has a glut of lawyers who can't find work to pay back their student loans.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-04-25-the-canary-in-the-law-school-coal-mine

Simply put, disruption is lessening the need for lawyers, which means law schools are producing too many lawyers for positions that increasingly do not exist. At Whittier, only 30 of the 141 graduates in 2015 had gained full-time employment that required passing the bar. According to the New York Times, Whittierâ(TM)s graduates last year had an average of $179,000 pre-interest debt. This will not reverse.