Lawyers were actually banned outright or faced tight restrictions in many colonies for much of the 18th century. Especially in Puritan New England, ...
It is a great shame they did not continue with the ban
As for rules and regulation ---France has often been called the land of bureaucrats but I think that Australia has got them beaten.
What other country has got five major levels of government doing the same job and we only have about 26 Million people, if we did a count at least half of them live off the government