Friends, I come to bury MCLE, not to praise it. The evil that failed proposals do lives on long after the good is interred with their bones. So let it be with MCLE.
Some say it was ambitious. If so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously was it answered. Some said MCLE smacked of elitism. It appeared as the scion of the old white men of the bar who urged it on the young, small firms and solo practices that could ill afford it, or those in government, non-profit and other underfunded offices to whom it was just another mandate. It was not elitism that drove the proposal. It was a longing to recapture a professional identity that has been eroding, slowly but inexorably, as the delivery of legal services slouches from a professional endeavor towards simple commerce.
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