President Barack Obama should have stuck with the easy stuff like the government shutdown, the debt ceiling or Syria. But getting into the quagmire of a two-year law school? What was he thinking? There is no shortage of attention to the crisis that has become legal education.
BigLaw talks about using well-defined competencies to hire its new lawyers, but we all know, and in quiet conversation BigLaw will admit, that they still look first to Harvard, Yale and the other top-tier schools. Judges and justices denigrate the relevance of legal scholarship in the law reviews. Law students graduate with unprecedented levels of debt and insufficient job opportunities while legal needs of deserving people go unmet. Law deans disparage the rankings of US News & World Report yet build schools based on those very rankings. It’s a fine kettle of fish we have found ourselves in.
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