I wonder how the American Bar Association fared during the Prohibition Era.
Business dried up.
They were sobering times.
Their members probably ended up being a bunch of thirsty lawyers.
Probably good for business. Note that it wasn’t illegal to drink-you just could not SELL booze legally. If you belonged to a private club, and your club laid in a big supply of booze in 1919, you could drink all the way till 1933, totally legally. The volume of offenses (against prohibition) became so huge that most judges just threw the cases out.