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Discussions about the "flooding" of the legal profession have focused on jurisprudence and legal culture (how people resolve disputes); accessibility to legal education and the acceleration in the number of law schools; social and cultural factors (professional status), and structural entry barriers to the professional. This paper analyzes the reality of the growing number of lawyers in Israel with reference to an additional factor: the most extensive rules regarding Unauthorized Practice of Law, strictly guarded by the Israeli Bar Association. As law had become an accepted forum for resolving private and public disputes, any kind of activity entailing provision of legal advice, legal documentation or representation is restricted to lawyers only. Consequently, entry into the profession becomes the only way to take part and become engaged in the field of legal services.