Recent articles in the Law Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and various bar journals would have us believe that law schools are about to go the way of the buggy whip, analog TV and polyester leisure suits. I am reminded of the Monty Python scene where the body collectors during the plague accidentally pick up a live one. The poor guy keeps saying, "I’m not dead yet!," but the officious chief collector tells him to shut up, for he soon enough will be.
To recap, there is a deepening crisis in legal education driven by the perfect storm of a contracting legal market and a serious overproduction of new lawyers. Some have estimated that there are enough un- and underemployed lawyers to fill the needs of the profession for the next decade. Traditional legal markets have shrunken due to offshoring, the ubiquity of cheap legal services on the Internet and the willingness of many consumers to go the "do-it-yourself" route.
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