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The Wall Street Journal Best of the Web Today reports that Gerry Spence, a prominent California plaintiffs attorney, has this advice for us: legal representation is essential, even more important than health care.

He has more to say here:

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?" he asked. "We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."

As Jack Benny said, “I’m thinking! I’m thinking!”