WSJ column proposes solution to rising legal fees
Its simple math, according to John O. McGinnis and Russell D. Mangas. The high cost of law school leads to a limited supply of lawyers, and results in big legal bills for clients and few legal services for the middle class.
January 18, 2012 at 05:21 AM
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It's simple math, according to John O. McGinnis and Russell D. Mangas. The high cost of law school leads to a limited supply of lawyers, and results in big legal bills for clients and few legal services for the middle class.
But McGinnis, a law professor at Northwestern University, and Mangas, an associate at Kirkland & Ellis, have a solution to this problem, and they wrote about it today in a Wall Street Journal column, “First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Law Schools.” McGinnis and Mangas propose that undergraduate universities be allowed to offer majors in law that would entitle those undergraduate law students to take the bar exam and serve a one-year apprenticeship.
“A student could devote half of his course work to the major, which would allow him to approximate two years of legal study,” they write. “There is substantial agreement in the profession that two years are enough to understand the essentials of the law—both the basics of our ancient common law and the innovations of our modern world.”
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